bettie_x
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posted on 31/10/2003 at 01:13 AM |
I was going to make an article about this, but with time being short, I'm
placing it here nonetheless.
Who's afraid of Halloween? Everyone it seems. It's not a fear of the
devil or of spooks and spirits, it's a fear of a razorblade in an apple
that never even happened. It's a fear of hypodermic syringes in tootsie
rolls, rat poison in the popcorn balls, of strangers, even when those
strangers are your very own neighbors.
Granted, there are a lot of sick fucks and predators out there, but every
year when halloween comes around I get to thinking about the new ritual of
trick or treating in malls. When we first started doing it around 4 years
ago I thought it kind of ridiculous, I mean who wants to get dressed up and
walk around a MALL to get candy? But year after year the lines became
longer, the procession of children thicker, and the candy running shorter.
I can understand the idea if you don't live in an area conductive to trick
or treating (as I am, in the BOONIES), but for the most part it's people
who have scared themselves stupid and forcing that fear on their
children.
Granted I don't have to deal with this anymore (being of the unemployed
variety at the moment), but it bothers me anyway.
Where has the fun gone? It's been taken over by a candy coated fear of
everyone and everything in the guise of "saftey" and "smart".
I did some looking into some of the well placed fears regarding
trickortreating, and found something rather interesting.
In the past 20 years there have been TWO deaths resulting from a child
injesting poisoned halloween candy, and both incidents were perpetraded by
members of the child's OWN FAMILY. No needles, no rat poison, no razors.
We can thank John Carpenter for that juicy morsel of movie creativity
turned urban legend way back when Jamie Lee Curtis barely was out of a
training bra.
Where is the fun in walking around in a procession under flourescent tubing
in a climate controled enviroment? Hell half the kids never even bothered
to say "trick or treat" anymore, let alone mutter a "happy halloween".
They just stick out their bags and buckets because on some level they too
realise that it SUCKS.
Know what's fun? Freezing your ass off, walking in the dark and the
leaves, and if you live in the Pacific NW, fog drizzle or rain. I only got
to trick or treat twice, when I was about 12, and it was great. I didn't
live in a neighborhood, so I went with a friend that lived in town. It's
not even so much the candy, it's being out after dark, being scared,
messing around with your friends.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all about safe. MAKE your kids wear the glowsticks
and reflective doo dads that they bitch and moan about. If they're young,
go with them, if they're too "old" for mom to tag along make sure you know
their route and that their group is large. Or hell, live a little and go
with them anyway. Those stupid T shirts that say "this IS my costume" are
like, five bucks. Live a little folks. What's the point of a carved and
lit pumpkin that will only be seen by passing cars? What's the point of
spooky decorations that nobody's going to be spooked by? What fun is a
scary costume in bright light?
The boogeymen that keep most people on edge every day are no more
proliferant on one day of the year than they are any other day. The world
is always scary, only on this one day the screams are SUPPOSED to be part
of the fun, and now that's dwindeling to a fraction of what it was. You
can't even wear a mask in a mall, gas station, or most "public" places
because you might be a maniac or a terrorist. Most halloween parties by
schools or communities forbid "scary" costumes. Hell when I was in
highschool I came dressed as the Uni-bomber, and nobody gave me greif!
So that's it, that's my piece, for what it's worth. To the rest of the
world that locks their doors and leaves a bowl of candy on the porch, too
scared to open it to a group of kids out for the night for some fun, to
those dragging their kids to march in a procession line under flourescent
tubes in a "safe" climate controlled mecca to consumerism, lighten the fuck
up. It's halloween. Maybe you need to be scared for real just once, even
if to release your year round pent up anxiety over "the unknown" aka LIFE.
Quit pushing your hyped up unfounded anxieties on your kids. Betcha I
can make you pee by just walking up behind and saying BOO. I won't even
have to demand your wallet. I'll just take your candy while your fumbing
through your keys for your can of mace.
I mean come on, it's halloween. What're you so scared of?
[Edited on 10/31/2003 by bettie_x] ____________________ Trapped in time. Surrounded by evil. Low on gas. |
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bettie_x
Extreme Fanatic Posts: 1570 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 13/11/2003 at 03:45 PM |
Ah shit dolo you live in BOTHELL? I'm sorry!
But on the other hand, I'm a 15 min drive from a place called
HUCKLECHUCK....and the only in/out road is a single lane "bridge" over a
300ft ravine. ____________________ Trapped in time. Surrounded by evil. Low on gas. |
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LadyCygnet
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posted on 11/11/2003 at 04:32 AM |
Yeah, Starlight...but wasn't Paul Gross just...*drools*
Okay...yeah, I'm better now. "Northern Exposure" was about the young
doctor who went to work in Alaska, and "Due South" was about the mountie
(Paul Gross) who was sent down to Chicago to work with the cop...
BTW, Halloween sucked...I had to work, and they had me clerking for more
than one floor...and all of the full-moon-type hell started breaking
loose... ____________________ "To Live is to Annoy." -- Rev. Lambert Reilly, Archabbot, St. Meinrad Abbey |
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Dolorosa
Extreme Fanatic Posts: 856 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 11/11/2003 at 02:26 AM |
Halloween was bitchin...and yeah, the hysteria has gotten pretty silly. I
mean sheez, worst thing that happened up here in Bothell was a kid kicked
over one of our pumpkins.
So I forthrightly nailed him in the back of the head with the other one as
he ran away...when I'm drunk my aim is really good...
I work at a mall now, at a bookstore no less, and I finally understand this
Mall trick or treating thing...what a strange thing. Marketing ploys are
getting sillier and sillier, and more and more people are afraid of dumber
and dumber things.
To think we actually used to live outside...eh, perish the thought. ____________________ In the valley of the Goats, the Goat Fucker is King |
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Starlight
Extreme Fanatic Posts: 618 Registered: 27/9/2002 Status: Offline
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posted on 10/11/2003 at 06:52 PM |
You know what..."Due South" is what I was thinking of when I said "Northern
Exposure"...Northern Exposure was set in Alaska, and Due South was set in
Chicago about the Mountie...and I must have seen an episode where he
visited Saulte Ste. Marie and went back to Chicago or something...cuz I
had it all mixed together somehow...or something cuz I double-checked and
it was supposed to be set in Chicago. ____________________ "When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never
tried before." ~Mae West
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LadyCygnet
Fanatic Posts: 287 Registered: 31/10/2003 Status: Offline
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posted on 10/11/2003 at 04:51 PM |
Was the show about Mounties "Due South" by any chance? ____________________ "To Live is to Annoy." -- Rev. Lambert Reilly, Archabbot, St. Meinrad Abbey |
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Nicholas
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posted on 10/11/2003 at 03:57 PM |
Actually, everyone there thought I was serving a prison sentence. It wasn't
until I presented the documents for registering the hours and explained the
whole bloody process that they realised I was doing this because of the
government. It wadn't too bad though... I got to help rebuild this huge old
victorian Mansion (MAPLEHURST), which was used as a hospital.
Everyone thinks it's haunted... I need to bring a ouija board or
something up there. ____________________ "Be neither a master nor a slave to pudding, for there is a time to gather,
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bettie_x
Extreme Fanatic Posts: 1570 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 9/11/2003 at 05:17 PM |
Oh please, public service isn't a requirement ANYWHERE here unless you've
done something really bad and want to get out of going in for a short jail
term.
If you told my old highschool that they had to do a certain amount of
community service to graduate they'd either laugh in your face, drop out
and get their GED, or hold a "walk out" and demand the community service as
cruel and unfair.
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Nicholas
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posted on 9/11/2003 at 12:09 PM |
*shining with national pride*
I don't know how the american (or any school system works for that
matter) but it's manditory for us to look out for each other... highschool
students (like moi) must complete 40 hours of community service to
graduate.
The only thing that concerns me is dumbasses paintballing people from
their cars. Fortunately I'm usually out in the woods sacrificing small
children and house pets to satan ,so I'm seldom on
the roads. ____________________ "Be neither a master nor a slave to pudding, for there is a time to
gather,
and a time to cast pudding away" |
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bettie_x
Extreme Fanatic Posts: 1570 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 8/11/2003 at 01:02 PM |
Nah it was a sitcom, but man I think you're onto something.... ____________________ Trapped in time. Surrounded by evil. Low on gas. |
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Starlight
Extreme Fanatic Posts: 618 Registered: 27/9/2002 Status: Offline
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posted on 8/11/2003 at 05:07 AM |
Oh hells then. So there was seriously a show like Cops called
Mounties...about Mounties? Geeze. ____________________ "When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've
never
tried before." ~Mae West
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bettie_x
Extreme Fanatic Posts: 1570 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 7/11/2003 at 08:51 PM |
No no not that one, it was ABOUT mounties. As stupid as it sounds I think
it was CALLED "mounties" or something.
Hell I dunno. ____________________ Trapped in time. Surrounded by evil. Low on gas. |
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Starlight
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posted on 7/11/2003 at 06:44 AM |
It was called "Northern Exposure". I watched a few episodes of it back a
few years ago. All I really remember about it was that they were set just
across the Canadian border from Sault Ste. Marie, MI, and the main mountie
guy was cute and sort of dumb but do-able. ____________________ "When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've
never
tried before." ~Mae West
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bettie_x
Extreme Fanatic Posts: 1570 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 7/11/2003 at 03:14 AM |
no no no not bust canada's balls, bust balls FOR canada. You know, hurry
your ass up to canada.
Wasn't there a TV show about mounties? I don't think it even lasted a
single season... ____________________ Trapped in time. Surrounded by evil. Low on gas. |
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Squire-of-Gothos
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posted on 6/11/2003 at 11:59 PM |
Busting Canada's balls is like trying to piss off a Zen monk. Those
frickin' canooks are like patron saints! They're legalizing pot! I heard
you can spit in a mounty's face and they just tell you to have a nice day.
Watch Canadian Bacon.
"Oh my god, its like new york! Only cleaner, and empty. And the people say
hello to you!" ____________________ “The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.”
“You know that if I were reincarnated, I’d want to come back a buzzard.
Nothing hates him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat
anything.”
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bettie_x
Extreme Fanatic Posts: 1570 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 5/11/2003 at 11:33 PM |
Only 42? I mean c'mon, if you're gonna do it, go big and bust balls for
canada when you're done. I'm even practi'cin my ACcent, eh? ____________________ Trapped in time. Surrounded by evil. Low on gas. |
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callei
Extreme Fanatic Posts: 759 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 5/11/2003 at 06:24 AM |
True Bettie, it could be fun, if you arent alone with the whiny pig
suckers. I mean its one thing to get beat up, but a whole nother ball of
hot wax to have to listen to them telling you about your soul, thier devil,
and some book they have heard about while they beat on you.
Now, if there were a few of us, it would be more fun. LOTS more fun. and
probably illegal in 42 states... ____________________ Real goths wear silver and crosses to keep the werewolves and vampires
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bettie_x
Extreme Fanatic Posts: 1570 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 5/11/2003 at 05:58 AM |
Callei, a group of expressed xians is EXACTLY what I'd like to meet in the
dark of a street some day. It's the makins of a fine, FINE time girl.
And pixi, if you guys only have to worry about that crap on halloween night
count your blessings. All it takes on this side of the rock to spark
emotions like that is the wrong basketball team winning in the wrong town.
And beer, don't forget beer. ____________________ Trapped in time. Surrounded by evil. Low on gas. |
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Psychopixi
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posted on 5/11/2003 at 01:03 AM |
Yeah, but I'm guessing that you wouldn't have gone as far as beating people
up. ____________________ Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life. |
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Meranda_Jade
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posted on 4/11/2003 at 04:53 PM |
Okay, Pixi, that sounds like me when I was about 14... we were hellions.
shaving cream on the cars in a used car lot, eggs on various houses, toliet
paper in the trees and soap on the windows... we had one helluva time... I
only did that one year, and because I was running with a messed-up bunch of
people... we were such punks... ____________________
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