Adam@Home by Rob Harrell for October 27, 2009
October 26, 2009
October 28, 2009
Transcript:
Adam: What's our policy going to be on trick-or-treating? Laura: Lights out after 9 o'clock. Adam: What about teens who don't dress up? Laura: Depends on how friendly they are. Adam: Really? I say, if they can't be bothered, why should I? Laura: Well, then you risk being "tricked". Adam: Giving candy to someone who doesn't dress up already qualifies as being "tricked".
carmy almost 15 years ago
Something is wrong with their skin color, they look kind of ghoulish.
Bargrove almost 15 years ago
Adjust your set, CM
JerryGorton almost 15 years ago
mine is OK!
Bargrove almost 15 years ago
Un-a-costumed as I am for public speaking…..etc
alondra almost 15 years ago
I wouldn’t give treats to teens who don’t bother with a costume either.
bald almost 15 years ago
with your manly looks (lol) adam, they won’t trick you
carmy almost 15 years ago
Mine is okay now too. It was probably just my eyeballs.
cleokaya almost 15 years ago
That’s okay CarMummy. Just take a look at the Avatars of the people that you hang out with all day. snerk
Dry and Dusty Premium Member almost 15 years ago
Cleo naked corpsakaya, I resemble that remark!
COWBOY7 almost 15 years ago
No costume, no candy. Unless it’s at the very end of the curfew.
The Duke 1 almost 15 years ago
Wear a Bernie Madoff costume AND NO CANDY at MY house!!!
fritzoid Premium Member almost 15 years ago
All Hallows Eve is a hybrid of the Celtic harvest festival Samhain (“Summer’s End”) and the Catholic All Saints (Hallows) Day.
All Saints Day (Nov. 1) and All Souls Day (Nov. 2 or 3) are days on which prayers and rememberances for the dead are supposedly especially effective for getting souls out of Purgatory, and tradition holds that on the evening of All Hallows Day (Hallow E’en), the spirits of those souls who are awaiting entrance to Heaven are allowed to walk the Earth and plead for intercessary prayer. If these spirits are not appeased by gifts of food, they might cause mischief.
Samhain was, as I said, primarily a harvest festival, but in agrarian pagan tradition the changes of the seasons were highly significant, and were thought to be once again particularly effective times to work magic rituals.
Our American observances of Halloween are pretty much exclusively secular, but elsewhere in the world, as Furienna points out, there are still important religious aspects associated with the day (or days) especially set aside for Remembrance of the Dead. I would imagine that someone living in Oklahoma (to pick a PURELY random example) would be familiar with Mexican observances of Dia de los Muertes.
But Howdy Doty is correct in that the Church hasn’t had nearly as much luck co-opting October 31st for their own purposes as they had with December 25, which the Romans celebrated as the Solstice-connected holiday Dies Natalis Solis Invictus, “The Birthday of the Unconquerable Sun.” Let’s see the pagan tree-hugging New Agers try to get THAT recognized as a federal holiday!
askaMoose almost 15 years ago
Is Berk Brethed now drawing Adam? He is looking more & more like Opus every day.