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Azriel
Member
08-01-2000
| Saturday, October 28, 2006 - 8:21 pm
Moonie, your bag is so cute! Happy to hear you won first with it. Biscotti, if there is a fun holiday in the US, they celebrate it in Asian countries. In Singapore and in Hong Kong Halloween is big. All of the stores have displays and the restaurants and bars are having parties and costume contests this weekend. For the religious holidays like Easter and Christmas most people just celebrate the commercial aspects of the holiday. Christmas was huge in Singapore. Right after Halloween they start piping in Christmas music in the stores and the stores and streets are decorated to the max. I've heard that it is just as big in Hong Kong, too.
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Sunday, October 29, 2006 - 4:26 pm
Well, my pumpkin didn't win the contest. Nobody got it. We were all very inebriated, and comprehension of "pi" left people scratching their heads and saying "huh", one lady, who was a teacher got it and one of the designated drivers who I believe was a high school kid, he got it too. Everyone else, it was over their heads. I felt like such a nerd. Well, our costumes were as follows: On the left is my sister (older) and she was Cinderella, in the middle is me, I went as my husband (his work uniform) who happens to be standing on the right, he went in his cammies. So basically, DH and I went as DH.

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Biloxibelle
Member
12-21-2001
| Monday, October 30, 2006 - 5:51 am
Sorry your pumpkin didn't win Escapee. I thought it was quite clever. Azriel, I made ghosts like that one year to hang from our trees. I never thought to stuff the heads with candy. That is a cute idea. Moondance, LOL about you beating out the boss. But that bag is a blue ribbon winner. It is terrific. I'm sure even the boss has to admit that. I have passed the torch so to speak. We don't have trick or treaters any longer where we live. So everything has been packed off to Kevins house. Fog machine, skeletons, witches, caldrons, tomb stones, black lights, strobe lights, all of it. It made me kind of sad to see it go. It was years worth of stuff. But it makes me feel good to know it is being used somewhere it will seen.
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Cinnamongirl
Member
01-10-2001
| Monday, October 30, 2006 - 9:53 am
So I just have to ask... Isn't going to a costume party really close to October 31st a little like "celebrating" Halloween? or was it a Harvest party? Can't we just have our kids(adults too) get dressed up and go trick or treating and/or to parties and it not be about something sinister or evil.
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Monday, October 30, 2006 - 10:24 am
Didn't say. It say costume party and Keg. I didn't really ask. I just drank.
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Supergranny
Member
02-03-2005
| Monday, October 30, 2006 - 10:28 am
Escapee you guys look so cute!! Cinnamongirl I understand your question. I have a friend who feels we are honoring the devil. I try to be sensitive to her feelings but I love Halloween..my birthday is today so it's all been connected to that occasion all my life. I enjoy the costumes and the decorations and the creepy crawly thrills. Never in my thought or heart had I ever connected it to the devil...until my friend brought it up. For me personally it is just plain fun.
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Monday, October 30, 2006 - 10:31 am
I watched something interesting on TV the other day. It showed all these movies (home version) of Halloween in the 50's and 60's. It was great. It told that the way we celebrate halloween today was created to make it less evil and sinister. To counteract. Trick or treating gained popularity in the 50's and 60's and got everyone out, together, celebrating being together, being happy, having fun as a family and being able to be young and innocent. Candy was a bonus. They showed a Halloween parade, it was really cool. The point is in part, a happy and safe atmosphere. Something the sinister and evil'doers wouldn't like or want for their celebrations. It went on to say that celebrating Halloween for it's original purpose would entail satan worship, sacrificial rituals, reaking evil havoc on society and just plain nastiness. When you go into that, then you are celebrating it's original purpose. Celebrating it the way we do with our kids is supposed to counteract the evil. We go to church on halloween. I also don't let my kids dress up as anything that has to do with evil, such as witches, demons, satan, vampires, monsters, etc. The costumes of yesteryear were so much better, higher quality and more authentic than the cheapy crap we have today.
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Cinnamongirl
Member
01-10-2001
| Monday, October 30, 2006 - 10:41 am
Supergranny

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Hermione69
Member
07-24-2002
| Monday, October 30, 2006 - 11:38 am
Escapee, I LOVED your pumpkin pie and downloaded the picture to send to my Mom who is a retired math teacher. My BIL just emailed me and he is all excited about his new fog machine for tomorrow night! ROFL!
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Monday, October 30, 2006 - 7:45 pm
Happy B'day Supergranny, hope its your best ever! Cute getups Escapee! I'll be putting the update together by Wednesday, so lets get those pix up or better yet, y'all can email me at joyce@celebrichat.com so I can put the pix in the update. Either way works. 
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, October 30, 2006 - 11:02 pm
Hey Az, thanks for the pumpkin seed recipe! The kids carved their pumpkins tonight and I made up a batch. They were quite pleased with them, though Caleb said it was too much work to get the seeds out. Might have been too much work but it was a fun evening with them doing the carving (we did the yucky part of cleaning them out, lol,) watching a Halloween movie...kid one that is, and pumpkin seeds. Darren's mom stopped by and dropped them off goodie bags for them. I think we're pretty set for tomorrow. The kids costumes are ready, the decorations are done. Tomorrow I've got to make a couple dishes for the potluck and make cookies and do the goodie bags for the kids we'll be trick or treating with. I'm just a bit excited, I love halloween! Just the fun of getting to play make believe for a night, it's great.
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Biloxibelle
Member
12-21-2001
| Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 6:47 am
Supergranny, sorry I missed your birthday. I hope you had a great day. Here is for all our little trick or treaters. Have fun and stay safe!

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Azriel
Member
08-01-2000
| Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 7:12 am
We decided to go out to dinner tonight with a friend and we all forgot it was Halloween night here in Hong Kong. We were going to Soho which is a big dining spot in the city. We had to pass through Lan Kwai Fong which is an area with a lot of bars. Come to find out it's a tradition here at Halloween to dress up and walk up and down the sidewalks in Lan Kwai Fong. Our taxi was barely moving and the sidewalks were just packed with people dressed up in costumes. The police were there doing crowd control putting up tape to keep the people from spilling out from the sidewalk into the streets. I really didn't mind at all how slow we were moving because it was a fun show to watch. There were some really cool costumes. I saw ELVIS! He is awful short and skinny these days, but still he looked marvelous. What had to be the funniest was the people who dressed their pets up in costumes, too. It was so cute! My favorite was the dog in the clown suit complete with multi-color clown wig. 
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 7:23 am

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Bandit
Member
07-29-2001
| Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 8:03 am

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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 8:07 am
My DS Nicholas and our "Lady Bug" Maggie getting ready for Halloween!

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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 8:09 am
TIPS FOR MOTORISTS: · Motorists should exercise extra caution during peak trick-or-treating hours between 4 and 9 p.m. · Stop for pedestrians · Slow down and obey the speed limit and all traffic signs/signals in residential areas. · Enter and exit driveways slowly. · When driving children to trick-or-treat or to a costume party, make sure all seat belts are fastened and let children out of the car on the curbside. · Be alert for children crossing and darting across the street. · Watch for children crossing between parked cars. · Always look out for pedestrians, especially before turning at a green light or making a right turn on red. · Remember, every time you exit your vehicle, you become a pedestrian too. · Exercise your flex time to beat the afternoon traffic TIPS FOR PEDESTRIANS: · Cross at marked crosswalks and intersections. · Look left, right, and left again before crossing the street. · Be sure to see and be seen. Avoid dark clothing, wear bright colors and use reflective devices such as vests and blinking lights. · Avoid costumes that may impair vision. · Make eye contact with drivers when crossing the street. · Stay alert and be on the look out for cars traveling above the speed limit.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 8:10 am
LOL, I just read an article yesterday I meant to post about pet parents dressing their pets up for Halloween. I thought it was kinda cute, I'll have to see if I can find it when I get back from taking the kidlets to school. Love those pics!
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Azriel
Member
08-01-2000
| Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 8:22 am
I wish I had had my camera with me! The pets were all just strutting along because they were loving the nice walk and all the attention they were getting. If we are still here next year, I'm going to brave the crowds and go down there, so I can do some extensive people and pet watching. It was really fun.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 10:42 am
I can't find the article I was looking for. It was pretty cute though, talking about how more and more pet parents are dressing their pets up for Halloween. Az that does sound like a lot of fun! I ran to the grocery store this morning and saw a handful of people dressed up and was enjoying just that. I can't wait for tonight!
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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 11:00 am
I saw on the Halloween Ellen show a group of women dressed as spa women..LOL They had cucumbers on their eyes (I don't know how they did it), green cream facial masks and white robes. I thought it was funny! People are so clever.
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 11:08 am
Last night started out like this:
But quickly it turned to this:
The little girl in the yellow is my Best Friends little girl. She came over to play dress up, but both girls were so tired....well you get the picture
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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 11:13 am
awwwww. I remember those days.
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 11:44 am
It just wouldn't be a holiday without tears, would it? Seems to me it happened at my house with my nieces and nephews, too! Very cute pics!
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 12:11 pm
Awww .... I don't miss those days! Beautiful little girls though. Hope they have a happier time of it tonight!
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