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What's everyone doing, and if you have kids, you takin' them out in your compound or they not doing that? They don't do it at the one I'm at now, but they used to in the one I was in before.
Riyadh is halloween - Period!
HAHAHAHAHA...............shut up Sparrow .........this is too much......Riyadh aint Halloween
Becare
it might offense Halloween itself
Yar i love halloween.It was fun,i loved it when I grabbed children and painted their faces terribly and accompanied them for Trick & Treat ....
In England,children usually dun trick if they dun get treat
The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
[Alvin Toffler]
how much more masking do we need in here?
nonz wrote:In England,children usually dun trick if they dun get treat
Yeah, well, in the US, they egg or 'TP' your house if you don't treat 'em right.
When I was a kid, all we did was mumble curse words under our breath at the people who gave us a handful of corn candy (ugh!!!).
Trick or treat. smell my feet!!
The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
[Alvin Toffler]
thats quite upbeat, Nelson
Nelson17 wrote:Trick or treat. smell my feet!!
You left out the second line:
Trick or treat, smell my feet!
Give me something good to eat!!
The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
[Alvin Toffler]
try McDonalds
Sparrow wrote:Riyadh is halloween - Period!
The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
[Alvin Toffler]
Trick or treat, smell my feet!
Give me something good to eat!!
ps
and when you try
the fish to fry
you bet u end up
with plates of meat
The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
[Alvin Toffler]
and while you beat
your sad retreat
lets bay at the moon
with masks and sweets
Sweet dreams to none on this hallowed night
Neither trick nor treat will meet with delight
Fear only for the darkness and the silent fright
OK....in my dumbness, I have to confess, I dont know what halloween is and what the meaning is or what you have to do and why. We neva did this thing. We just knew the americans did this but we dont know for what reason. So before you plan something and force me to dress up in my fishnet abaya...let me into your secrets of why you celebrate this eerie night of witches and hand out candy
The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
[Alvin Toffler]
Halloween has its origins in the Christian festival of All Sains Day and some Celtic ritual called "Samhain", based on an ancient Irish celebration of the harvest that happens at summers end.
The masks and costumes are supposed to emulate the spirits. maybe, in order to appease them.
Its not just the tree climbing Africans and Asians who are hooked on to such hocus pocus on the planet, remember?
Halloween can also be called the Christian feast of Hallowmas, Allhallows, or All Saints day. Halloween is connected all the way back to the ancient druids. The Druids believed that on this evening the lord of the dead called upon hosts for evil spirits. The Druids would then light fires on Halloween night for the purpose of warding off these evil spirits.
The ancient Celts believed that Halloween was the last evening of the year and people of this time would examine portents for the future. The Celts also believed that the spirits of the dead also revisited their homes as well on the night of Halloween.
When the Romans conquered Britain they added Halloween to the Roman harvest festival on November first. The Celtic tradition of lighting fires on Halloween has survived until modern times (in Scotland and Wales) and even the concept of ghosts and witches connected to Halloween is still common. Even the Roman harvest festival traditions are still used today. Like dunking for apples in a tub of water and carving out faces on jack-0-lanterns and placing candles in them. The idea coming from leaving a candle in the jack-o-lantern for lost souls. Halloween being the night where the viel between the dead and the living is the thinest.
The idea of wearing costumes and doing more of the 'modern' activities came about during the twentieth century. Turnips turned into the use of pumpkins then later carving into jack o lanterns. The idea of wearing scary costumes or masks came from the Celtics who wore them to scare away food scavengers and hunters turned into what is widely known today as wearing Halloween costumes.(Popular costumes include ghosts, witches, vampires and other things associated with Halloween). And the idea of leaving food behind, or feeding the young ones turned into 'trick or treating.'
As with most other things these days the whole Trick or Treat has commercial gain and exploitation!
musicman wrote:Halloween has its origins in the Christian festival of All Sains Day and some Celtic ritual called "Samhain", based on an ancient Irish celebration of the harvest that happens at summers end.
The masks and costumes are supposed to emulate the spirits. maybe, in order to appease them.
Its not just the tree climbing Africans and Asians who are hooked on to such hocus pocus on the planet, remember?
Americans only got involved in this because of the free candy
I always found that "Gimme sweets or I sing" worked really well
So is anything happening and do I need to have children with me?
MaserMan wrote:I always found that "Gimme sweets or I sing" worked really well
So is anything happening and do I need to have children with me?
Dunno. Ask your friend zara
Alliecat wrote:MaserMan wrote:I always found that "Gimme sweets or I sing" worked really well
So is anything happening and do I need to have children with me?
Dunno. Ask your friend zara
Oooo catty
MaserMan wrote:Alliecat wrote:MaserMan wrote:I always found that "Gimme sweets or I sing" worked really well
So is anything happening and do I need to have children with me?
Dunno. Ask your friend zara
Oooo catty
The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
[Alvin Toffler]
Alliecat wrote:musicman wrote:Halloween has its origins in the Christian festival of All Sains Day and some Celtic ritual called "Samhain", based on an ancient Irish celebration of the harvest that happens at summers end.
The masks and costumes are supposed to emulate the spirits. maybe, in order to appease them.
Its not just the tree climbing Africans and Asians who are hooked on to such hocus pocus on the planet, remember?
Americans only got involved in this because of the free candy
Pretty obvious, there's no such thing as a free lunch in the land of the free and the brave, without a doubt...
Mabe Zara can host a Halloween Tea Party for all of us ghouls? But this time with visible invitations, of course... not back door handouts
Thank you "gowiththeflowUK" lovely story.
Support you Allie - someone's got a lot of kissing A to do...
The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
[Alvin Toffler]
Maybe the men can get into their wives Abhayas on Oct 31, just for a day. Another CD exercise for the bloggers... For singles I am sure there are plenty of xtras to go around?
I want to dress in thobe and fanbelt and drive to the party
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