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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: G0ALY on October 27, 2011, 07:07:15 AM
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Howdy all, I used the electronics from my Beer Bottle Color Organ to build a little display for this years Trick-or-Treaters.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGQkANTmQsM
The music is on an MP3 player. Right now it plays, “This is Halloween”, “I told the Witch Doctor”, the theme from “Ghostbusters“, the theme from “The Adams Family”, The theme from “The Munsters“, “Zombie Jamboree”, “It must be Halloween”. “Spooky Scary Skeletons”, and yes, “The Monster Mash”.
It will get used tonight for the trick or treaters, and then taken apart until next year.
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It will get used tonight for the trick or treaters, and then taken apart until next year.
Halloween is on the 27th now?!
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Halloween is on the 27th now?!
This town always does trick or treating on the Thursday that falls during the last full week of October.
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:aok
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:aok
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This town always does trick or treating on the Thursday that falls during the last full week of October.
That's about the stupidest thing I've ever heard of... Absolutely ridiculous.
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This town always does trick or treating on the Thursday that falls during the last full week of October.
That's...pretty...weird (for want of a better word). :headscratch:
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It’s not that weird. This town makes a pretty big deal about Halloween. The Halloween parade is the biggest one of the year. The parade is always on the Tuesday before the trick or treat. My kid is in the marching band so we stayed at the parade until her band passed by. That was over 90 minutes into it, and it was not yet finished.
Football games are on Friday night, adult parties and events are held on Saturday. It works out pretty good.
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I think this house may have beat you out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfcNoMnKjrY
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I'm not even in the competition! But then again, I’m not trying to stop traffic, just get smiles as they walk up the sidewalk.
If you hit one of the many haunted houses, cornfields, woods or the haunted railroad on Monday and Wednesday, Halloween last a full week.
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nice!
those are some cool pumpkins
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Goaly that is awesome and I bet the kids will love your house! You better have plenty of candy!
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that's just too @#$% cool Goaly :aok
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Don't know if you're old enough to remember Don Knotts
The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
http://youtu.be/nz_crHdfggY (http://youtu.be/nz_crHdfggY)
and of course some Johann Bach
http://youtu.be/_FXoyr_FyFw (http://youtu.be/_FXoyr_FyFw)
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It’s not that weird. This town makes a pretty big deal about Halloween. The Halloween parade is the biggest one of the year. The parade is always on the Tuesday before the trick or treat. My kid is in the marching band so we stayed at the parade until her band passed by. That was over 90 minutes into it, and it was not yet finished.
Football games are on Friday night, adult parties and events are held on Saturday. It works out pretty good.
No it really *IS* that weird. Leave it to town administrators to make something much more complicated than it needs to be. Halloween is on the 31st. The parade should be on the 31st. Trick or treating should happen on the 31st. Football games are recreational and thus should not even be factored into the equation. Sports should be worked around the "holidays" and not the other way around.
So then what? Are people going to move Christmas to another date? What about Thanksgiving.. wouldn't it be more convenient for it to fall on a Friday? UH OH July 4th falls on a Wednesday next year.. how about we just push it back to Monday so everyone can have a three day weekend. How absurd would that be?!
Give me a friggin' break. If they ever pull that junk where I live I'll put up a sign saying "Today is NOT Halloween and as a result I will not be handing out candy tonight. Come back on the 31st if you really want your Snickers bar"
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Gotta disagree with you on this one Tigger. I think it's a heck of an idea if you live in a town that has a tradition of doing it. We haven't had Christmas on Christmas morning since I can't remember and we never do birthdays ON the birthday. Okay I agree with you on the other holidays but ones that really focus on children I think it's kind of cool to have most of a town follow a tradition that makes it easier and more fun for them. In my neighborhood nobody decorates and I had maybe three groups of kids come by last year.
Kind of sucks to be honest
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I think that a big difference is that Halloween is not really considered to be a holiday. The banks are not closed, the mail is delivered, the kids all go to school. It’s not like they give all of us the day off of work to celebrate this day, and then we ignore it.
As for the pumpkins, I received a lot of compliments. A few people stayed to watch an entire song or two. We live on a small side street and had 120 kids stop by. A friend a few blocks over on a busier street said they had prepared 200 goodie bags and they were all gone in the first half hour. On the Main Street the kids literally came nonstop. So even if it is on the wrong day, it’s a pretty big deal here.
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I miss the way Halloween was when we were kids . Was extra cool whenever we were living on base housing . I think it's great what your town does . If we get 10 kids trick or treating at the house this year I'll be surprised .
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I think that a big difference is that Halloween is not really considered to be a holiday. The banks are not closed, the mail is delivered, the kids all go to school. It’s not like they give all of us the day off of work to celebrate this day, and then we ignore it.
As for the pumpkins, I received a lot of compliments. A few people stayed to watch an entire song or two. We live on a small side street and had 120 kids stop by. A friend a few blocks over on a busier street said they had prepared 200 goodie bags and they were all gone in the first half hour. On the Main Street the kids literally came nonstop. So even if it is on the wrong day, it’s a pretty big deal here.
Cool stuff right there... and FYI... Halloween is the second biggest (popular) Holiday next to Christmas.
Maybe today, since it's not considered a "Holy" Holiday... altho origin has ties... everyday life still continues.
27th or 31st... still a fun Holiday. :aok
X :salute
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I live about 30 miles from Goaly. My town does the same thing, except T or T is always on the Saturday closest to Halloween. Ours was tonight. Can't remember the last time it actually fell on Halloween night.
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It's not your town, you don't live there. Why the F&$^! are you complaining?
Sheeeeesh.