Ahh, Halloween, as the mainstream media like to call it. A step up from this would be Hallowe'en, but the real name for it is All Hallow's Eve, or even Samhain. Why, you ask? Because it is the Christmas Eve of All Saints' Day. Back some hundreds of years ago, there were Gaelic pagan rituals that took place on this night,the end of harvest season, which served the purpose of warding away evil spirits during this night. These pagans thought that the land of the dead would overlap with the land of the living, so they would dress up as they thought the evil spirits looked, and perform ritual dances to scare them away. Later, when Popes Gregory III and IV moved All Saints' Day, or All Hallow's Day, from May 13 to November 1, Samhain, which had lost all pagan meaning, was renamed all-hallow's-even, and one thing leads to another, so it eventually became Halloween.
Anyway, last night, I went as a cow. The only "udder" joke I heard was: "You're udderly disgusting!" Jerk. But me, my lil' bros, and our next-door neighbor, were the only kids in the entire neighborhood to go Trick-or-Treating last night. So we had a slight moral dillema at a couple of houses, which just had grab bags. Do you take the whole thing, grab a few pieces, or just leave one piece?
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And what exactly did you use to make the uh...udder?
The history of Halloween lives on in glow sicks.
Approximately how young are we going to let the girls dress like slut doctors, slut lawyers, slut hookers, etc...? I dunno if I should be giving out candy or Planned Parenthood pamphlets (I wouldn't waste condoms on them.)
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