Halloween

[ash]

So does anyone on here celebrate this event?
(I wonder who will be the first to look like an ignorant fool and say it's an American custom and we should not be encouraging or practising it over here as "it's unaustralian"?)

[ash]

As for myself and the housemates we celebrate it. Each year one of the local families places a letter in the letterbox with a balloon attached. the letter states that if you are open to trick or treaters (term first coined in Canada by the way) then attach the balloon to the letterbox. Last year was the first time we did this and we had possibly thirty families come through.

We all get dressed up and do the usual stuff such as get some drinks into us and greet all the others dressed up in our area. Then it's off to my place of work to spread the good natured spirit of an occasion that really does bring willing parts of the community together.

Maybe get the two bonfires happening tonight too.. Forgot that last year.

[Tsar Hagrid]

Bah, bloody Yanks and their Pagan festivals

Hmm does sound like fun...although did you know that Halloween is derived from a Scottish festival and the name is a contraction of the Scottish name for it "All Hallows Eve"

[draconis]

You know I'll bite ;D... Whilst not American in origin, it's well and truly been hijacked in the same way that (St) Valentines day was hijacked. Not even sure if it existed in its current form till Hallmark hijacked that one.

Woolworth's was selling Pumpkins to cut up for $22 a piece for the last two weeks

In a few years time, I bet Woolies with start selling f@#$ing "Thanks Giving" turkys

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I find that it's not unusual for the people to nay say Halloween to be the same people who nay say Microsoft and Telstra.

I do not see how it is an Americanised thing. We only see it as Americanised as it was popularised in a number of movies that came out back in the day. It's widely celebrated in Canada, Ireland and England with Ireland celebrating it the greatest.