My niece’s Catholic nursery school had the kids making Halloween decorations.
The curse of the stale Zagnut lives!
Get bent. There’s nothing stupid or PC about “happy holidays.” People need to get the fuck over this. Christmas is one holiday, singular. There are several other holidays in that same period. This nonsense was irritating when religious conservatives started using it as part of their “U.S. Christians are oppressed!” jive, but apparently other people have fallen for it. Too bad.
Sarah Palin, is that you? You almost had me thrown off course with that “kosher” stuff!
Oh, I forgot my inoffensive Halloween story: on Friday I spoke to a woman who, in saying goodbye, politely told me “Happy Halloween, if you celebrate it!” … I never thought of eating candy and wearing a costume as any kind of celebration, they’re just fun to do. Now, if I were a pagan, maybe I’d be celebrating, but I don’t think this woman dealt with many pagans on the phone.
St. Catherine of the Wheel if my Sunday School lessons have not been forgotten.
Catholics are no strangers to the macabre.
I will forward this for nomination for the SDMB 2009 Thunderous Understatement of the Year Award. I am confident it will rank amongst the contenders.
They’re stored in the crawlspace under the house. Most modern cars don’t have trunks big enough for body storage, anyway.
I usually go with Merry Cold-Weather Solstice. Confuses the hell out of my fundie in-laws, which is always a good thing!
It is an honor to be nominated and be in such august company.
These time release Demons the Witches put in Halloween Candy, do they all release on Halloween?
I just bought a bunch of candy on the 75% off after holiday sale and need to know if it’s safe yet.
Check the sell-by date and count backwards two months to when they were produced and cursed. The demons have a half life of a month, but you will never be entirely safe, just mostly safe in a few more months.
I found a two-part YouTube video of American (judging by their accents) eveangelists haranguing the sinners on Khao San Road two years ago. See them here and here. That’s out backpackers’ ghetto. I think I saw these exact same guys myself. Two years ago sounds about right. There’s a short one here, also on Khao San Road.
Didn’t find any videos from the thumpers in front of the Nana Plaza red-light bar area, but they do turn up there occasionally.
We get all types of people here, which helps explain why Bangkok is never, ever boring. It’s like a metropolis-sized South Park.
On not celebrating Halloween: We have neighbors who don’t celebrate Halloween. What do they do every year? They darken their house, then go out to eat. When asked about what they’re doing for Halloween, they simply say “we don’t celebrate it.” Simple, gets the message across, but doesn’t shove it down people’s throats. Why is that so hard?
On “Happy Holidays”: I’ve actually preferred this saying anyway, if just because it also includes New Years.
Too late!
I moved to the Chicago suburbs for a while after growing up in Vegas for 20 years. I was profoundly confused by the random strangers who would say “hello” to me for no reason and ask how I was enjoying the neighborhood whenever they saw me walking by:
“You just moved in, right?”
“Uh…yeah…”
“Welcome! This is a nice part of town. You enjoying it here?”
“Um…yeah…it’s nice.”
“Heh heh. You’re from the city, aren’t you?”