Halloween would be less popular if...

[Arizona Hot]

I was hoping to get more on-topic comments, should I continue or is that futile?

[MilesAhead]

I was hoping to get more on-topic comments, should I continue or is that futile?

-Arizona Hot (October 09, 2012, 05:44 PM)

Just making an on topic comment would provide impetus is my guess.

[tomos]

taking you deadly seriously
this is what halloween was all about:

Halloween would be less popular if...


...that was when all your dead relatives came to visit.

-Arizona Hot (October 07, 2012, 03:45 PM)

see 'Pre-Christian influences' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween

-tomos (October 07, 2012, 03:53 PM)

Yes, but dead relatives would probably have weird conversation and ideas.

-Arizona Hot (October 07, 2012, 09:01 PM)

(according to the link) the whole point of halloween was to keep them away.
You've got to be scary enough at halloween to keep the dead away
- sorry.  . [just in case] the angry face is to keep the dead relatives away [/just in case]

[MilesAhead]

Naturally when I was a little kid, I wanted to get free candy. But as I got older I didn't like the extortion concept. Ring somebody's doorbell and imply they'll suffer damages if they don't pay tribute. Some celebration.
(Also how do you scare somebody who is already dead by dressing as a skeleton? You can be killed but they can't. So how scare them?  Strange.)

Then again I never liked the idea of Christmas gifts either. Everyone running around buying other people stuff they don't want that they then have to return. What a scramble!!  My Christmas concept would be everyone start a little fund of crazy cash to splurge on themselves.  Get something they wouldn't ordinarily buy. Indulge a whim. Then everyone gets together for a meal and displays the crazy item they bought after saving all year.

It would cut down on the customer service lines later.

[tomos]

(according to the link) the whole point of halloween was to keep them away.
You've got to be scary enough at halloween to keep the dead away
- sorry.  . [just in case] the angry face is to keep the dead relatives away [/just in case]

-tomos (October 09, 2012, 06:39 PM)

see the [just in case] - just in case of misunderstanding

[tomos]

(Also how do you scare somebody who is already dead by dressing as a skeleton? You can be killed but they can't. So how scare them?  Strange.)

-MilesAhead (October 09, 2012, 07:24 PM)

true, it doesnt seem logical. I guess they thought of them differently in the past.

I like your Christmas idea

[MilesAhead]

I like your Christmas idea

-tomos (October 10, 2012, 04:10 AM)

Thanks. Most people I tell that to call me

[TaoPhoenix]

(Satire)
Miles is clearly a terrorist since all of Retail now hates him.
(/Satire)

[40hz]

Halloween would be less popular if...people realized just how little fun it is for anybody anymore - kids included.

By the time you're done dealing with: pumpkin bashers, pederast predator warnings, paranoid parents, poisoning scares, political correctness, and anti-Pagan pulpit pounders, who has the energy to enjoy it?

Too bad. It was the only real "just for kid's" holiday there was when I was growing up. Even better than Christmas morning in some respects. (At least with Halloween you didn't have to get "dressed up," "stay neat," and go sit quietly at your relatives' the rest of the day and evening.)