We live in a nice neighborhood of a major city and often see minivans disgorging costumed kids across the street, in addition to all the local kids. We pass out a lot of candy most Halloweens, weather permitting.
We live in a nice neighborhood of a major city, but we don’t often see minivans (just a couple yesterday) because we live next to an even nicer neighborhood and the minivans go there.
So, counting just the local kids, we get a good amount, I would say 60+ yesterday. Our next-door neighbor said that he counted 80 last year. That’s down from the peak days, before 9/11, when we’d have 100-120.
Strangely enough, a woman at work who lives just 2 miles away from us says that she gets just 4 or 5 kids every year.
Judging by the empty bags from yesterday, we had 70-some kids visit. We’ve had quite a few more in the past - not unusual to break the century mark.
I decided on a single option, for as it is written in the book of Meave :
(bolding mine)
4:13 And god spake unto the children of the straight dope saying “you know that coveting thing … just don’t do it ok ?”
4:14 And anyone who coveteth more than one thing shall surely burn in the fires
of the place that is known as the bbq pit.
4:15 and will also be smited around the head with a wet fish
4:16 except on Fridays.
IOW, i am saving you from yourselves.
You’re welcome.
We live in a nice community in a large city, but in a gated condo “campus.” We’ve never had any trick-or-treaters in the nearly 40 years we’ve lived here.
@susan, @thorny_locust, @puzzlegal
You are all so nice. First, I’m pretty over the fact that I wasn’t treated special as a kid because I figured out that neither was my mom. Second, I have become the family pie queen. I make the best blueberry pies (and apple, and raspberry, and key lime meringue) that have ever passed family member’s lips. My brothers will attest.
That is the best possible response to childhood pie deprivation!
I admire how you’ve broken the cycle!
Well done!
https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polls-only-no-discussion/953642/2271
I am darned trying to figure out how mammograms, colonoscopies, and S&G songs are related, but based on the poll results I am in the minority I guess.
I join you in that minority. I had no idea what that one was about. (Not the one you actually linked to, but the next one.)
The wording of that poll is confusing, but I took a “yes” vote to mean “Yes, you [@pjd] are the only one who thought that”, not “I also thought of Simon & Garfunkel”.
It is a reference to the Simon & Garfunkel song “El cóndor pasa (If I Could)”.
The lyricis include “I’d rather be a hammer than a nail” and other similar statements.
The poll offered options such as “I’d rather have a colonoscopy than a mammogram”.
Some of us mentally sung the colonoscopy/mammogram statement to the S&G tune.
mmm
Well, it’s only the “No” vote that really counts anyway.
This.
Oh. I actually thought that it had been ninja’ed and was referring to the previous poll, which made me think that “Clap Directly Above It” was a riff on an obscure song of theirs.
Thanks.
But I’m not sure how you were doing that; the rhythm doesn’t fit.
So did I.
I was unclear on how to compare colonoscopies to mammograms. I mean, the actual colonoscopy isn’t as unpleasant as a mammogram. It certainly hurts a lot less
But the prep for a colonoscopy takes a week and is really unpleasant, whereas the prep for a mammogram is "take off your clothes above the waist and remove any antiperspirant, which takes 5 minutes and is painless.
You need to have a certain … je ne sais quoi.
A week! Crikey - remind me not to go to your doctor. My last one took a day for prep.
It was still unpleasant.
Fair enough. Try this:
“I’d rather have colon than a mamm, yes I would, if I could, I surely would…”
mmm