Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for October 31, 2022

Happy Halloween everyone

Eggs and toilet paper for that guy.

Do they get to take the rabbit?

When I was a kid it was SPOKEN “trick or treat” but we understood it to mean the opposite: Come up with a treat or we’ll play a trick on you. Usually turning over their garbage cans or soaping their windshield or something moderately non-damaging. Now, folks seem to have reversed it into “show me a trick and I’ll give you a treat”. I’m okay with that, but it’s not what it USED to mean!

Keep that rabbit away from the carnivorous kid.

Maybe she could turn tricks?

I used to go over to my friend’s house and help give out candy when she had mobs of kids showing up. I had friends who were street performers and learned some things. Sometimes I would stand on the porch and do a mechanical man act, which the kids liked, and sometimes I would do magic. I’d disappear a piece of candy and find it in a kid’s ear, which the kids also liked. I enjoyed it and the kids seemed to remember from year to year.

tricky old bugger, isn’t he?!?

If Bob could do it Bullwinkle style, that would be very entertaining:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3-jAvSq9zI

Bob does his tricks, the kids will do theirs.

Please! A REAL magician would all it an “illusion” if not a “feat of magic!”.

:-) Abra-Cadabra!

It’s a rather hollow Hallow’een for kids at that house.

That’s okay. Later on, ol’ Bob will learn the kid’s interpretation.

So if Bob does the trick

Does that mean the kids have to provide a treat?

Bob will need legal after one of the kids speed dials the local ASPCA.

And Bob couldn’t understand why he woke up the next day to find his house egged and his car wrapped in toilet paper.

Wiley kids – yet again … love ’em!!

Now let’s see what tricks are up the sleeves of those little ransuckers.

I bet they will surprise you, too.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN TO ALL!

We’re going to stand here until we get the candy, no matter how long your dumb show lasts, mister. And, shouldn’t you be wearing a tux?

Bob is just asking to get his house toilet papered, his windows soaped and the air let out of his tires.

Well, after all, ambiguities in a contract are construed against the person who drafted it

The local bordello’s motto is “Trick and Treat” ;9. Told to The Count by a friend. ;)

“It’s not a trick! It’s an IllUsion!” -Every stage magician ever

I grew up in Montreal and never heard the term “trick or treat” until much later. We said “Charity Please” for some reason. I don’t know what they say now.

It used to mean that. But people felt like it was too much effort to decorate their houses and gave out candy instead. So the kids would say trick or treat to see if it’s a house that did tricks or a house that phoned it in and gave out treats.

When Bob handed out carrots,that’s when t he kids got angry

The selective use of color is one of the things Wiley does best.

My Former Sig. Other’s dad was a talented amateur magician who’d do things like making candy appear out of thin air for the trick-or-treaters. After a few years, word got around about the tricks and treats at that house & hordes of kids were showing up, so he started putting on 10-minute mini-shows. The tricks were the treats!

At this point, the children begin throwing treats at him.

Many, many years ago, in small towns that nearly all had outhouses, the verse was “Halloween apples, candy or cake. If you don’t give some your toil let will shake!” Some older kids would go about tipping over outhouses on Halloween night.

This is a true story, where one older but not really old, loud, but yes loud voiced lady in our little town stomped right into our grade 11 or 12 classroom on the morning AFTER halloween and told the teacher she needed a few minutes to talk to the boys! She then lectured us severely about pushing over her outhouse Halloween night. As she stomped and screeched back and forth across the front of the classroom, she said, “I know darn well it was some of you boys who did it! I know, because my dog bit one of you boys!”

Without thinking, poor Wayne, sitting in the front row, ( and who, by the way, was the quarterback of our high school football team) blurts out, “The dog never bit anyone!” I swear to god she leaped two feet into the air as she shouted, “I knew it! I knew it!”

I had gotten curious so i did a web search: https://youtu.be/yzjCbvPyo6c

I did one year dress up as a magician and do tricks – but I also gave treats afterwards.

Hey, it’s valid! ;p One of the two options given.