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Daxter King 10-20-2005 05:10 PM

I loooooove halloween! Unfortionatly its dead in my neighborhood.:( Thats why I go to my friends neighborhood:) People that are like 19-21 still go trick or treating. One time I went to one of those haunted mazes with my friends. So Clayton usually gets really scared so he throughs his glow stick down the passage to see if anyone is there. I paid the guys extra just to scare him more.pm me if you wanna hear a funny storie.

Nate 10-27-2005 10:53 PM

I carved my first pumpkin ever today. It actually ended up looking pretty good, which was surprising. I shall post a pic as soon as I recharge my camera batteries.

I still haven't got a costume yet, which is a problem as I'm going to parties friday, saturday and monday night. I went to the costume store today but the line went all the way round the corner. I'm going to return tomorrow morning when they open.

T-nex 10-27-2005 11:19 PM

I carved my first pumpkin a few weeks ago :D But then it dried out and became ugly :(

Anyways, no one really holds halloween here in denmark... They've only started with it a few years ago, and still, there aren't many kids going out trick or treating.... Lol but evryone knows it's 100% comercial :p

Nate 10-27-2005 11:47 PM

I read about this on Neil Gaiman's blog. He wasn't too sure if it was true or just a myth but I really hope it is real.

Apparently back when Margaret Thatcher was PM of England, there was a secret plan to promote halloween because studies showed that regions where people celebrate halloween had less celebration of Guy Fawkes day (4th of November) and thus less fireworks related injuries.

Check this out if you want to see some cool-looking pumpkins http://www.phrenopolis.com/pumpkins/index.html. I bookmarked it a while ago and I've lost track of who's website it actually is - there's remarkably little personal information. I think it's the website of Dave Grossman, who has done a lot of gaming related stuff including cowriting Monkey Island (I'm not sure which one).