Out of the Blue

[Oct 31, 2008, 02:45 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

Boo! Happy Halloween! As is our usual dorky way we are going to dress up the doggies for this evening to delight and amuse the trick-or-treaters and their parents. One or two children are invariably frightened by the pups as well, but nobody ever gets too badly traumatized, so I guess that's just the trick part in action. Anyway, hopefully I'll be more on top of things today than I was yesterday so I can wrap things up early enough to hand out some candy.

Candied Links:	Thanks Ant and Mike Martinez.
Play:	Halloween Bubble. GraveShift. Thanks Jay is Games. Zombie Baseball.
Links:	Best Video Game Pumpkins & Jack-O-Lanterns. Thanks Digg. Exceptional Nerd-tastic Pumpkin Carvings.
Stories:	Coventry man has transformed a front yard into a blood-and-gore spectacle. A Future for Futurama? Thanks Digg.
Science:	Enceladus Rev 91 Flyby (Preview of Cassini Spacecraft Activities Around Saturn). Thanks Jim. Real-life Tony Starks. Thanks scorsese.fan.
Media:	Macintosh Virus Discovered. And the Oscar goes to… Awesome Stop Motion Mega Man. The Price is Fail.

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Re: Happy Halloween!

Oct 31, 2008, 08:38

kanniballl

For some reason I get deppressed on Halloween, maybe because its a distinctly American holiday that has taken over the rest of the world, sort of like Santa Claus

The idea of Father Christmas was around well before Thomas Nast made him an even more popular figure. And of course his depiction is now what many people think of when people say Father Christmas or Santa.

But of all of the things people blame America for, I guess publicizing Santa is probably one of the more friendly complaints.




"Space. It seems to go on and on forever. But then you get to the end and a gorilla starts throwing barrels at you." -Fry, Futurama

		Date	Subject	Author
	1.	Oct 31, 06:23	Happy Halloween!	Cutter
	2.	Oct 31, 06:27	Re: Happy Halloween!	InBlack
>>	5.	Oct 31, 08:38	Re: Happy Halloween!	kanniballl
	4.	Oct 31, 08:11	Re: Happy Halloween!	nin
	6.	Oct 31, 08:42	Re: Happy Halloween!	InBlack
	7.	Oct 31, 09:06	Re: Happy Halloween!	Learning
	12.	Oct 31, 20:04	Re: Happy Halloween!	Kxmode
	13.	Oct 31, 21:58	Real-life Tony Starks.	Kxmode
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	10.	Oct 31, 15:26	Re: Out of the Blue	PHJF
	11.	Oct 31, 19:24	Re: Out of the Blue	Retired
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