Thread: Halloween

Originally Posted by armstrong

We used to egg people's houses at Halloween. And put bangers in glass bottles on bonfire night.

As we got older we'd just close the curtains and not answer the door

Surely that must have been Mischief Night: 4th November, day before Bonfire Night.?

As kids in the (UK) 70's, we never bothered with Halloween. Too busy chumping for firewood, making "Guys" (Penny for the Guy), and burning other kid's bonfires to be bothering with all that daft Halloween malarkey.

Got my skeletons out.

Originally Posted by kmart

Surely that must have been Mischief Night: 4th November, day before Bonfire Night.?

As kids in the (UK) 70's, we never bothered with Halloween. Too busy chumping for firewood, making "Guys" (Penny for the Guy), and burning other kid's bonfires to be bothering with all that daft Halloween malarkey.

However, it had not been so good for business. That's what counts nowadays...

( ...display outside bts Phrom Phong...kids (not shown) loved it...

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

No but I have something exponentially more terrifying for you than that...
...me as Richard Simmons in my last costume.

Fuk Ant how long did it take the perm to drop out, That there is real commitment.

Originally Posted by kmart

Surely that must have been Mischief Night: 4th November, day before Bonfire Night.?

As kids in the (UK) 70's, we never bothered with Halloween. Too busy chumping for firewood, making "Guys" (Penny for the Guy), and burning other kid's bonfires to be bothering with all that daft Halloween malarkey.

And doing things with fireworks that these days could be viewed as acts of terrorism

Perfect opportunity for you to rustle up a few delicacies, plies.

Horror is your genre.

Originally Posted by Club Soda

You do not half talk some arse spicy

Sorry if you had a dull time when growing up, does seem to come out in your posting. We also had fun with weed killer and pipes.

...Halloween lilies...

Originally Posted by tomcat

...Halloween lilies...

Tom, taught me something, didn't know it was a thing. Is it an American thing?

...no, it's a death thing: seemed appropriate for this holiday...

^ Bad luck 101 ... bringing lilies into the house unless there's a dead body around...

Originally Posted by kmart

Surely that must have been Mischief Night: 4th November, day before Bonfire Night.?

I'd never heard of that. In Oz and NZ we have Guy Fawkes night on 5th November (Remember, remember the 5th of November, gunpowder, treason and smoke?). No mischief night though. Just letting off fireworks in the weeks leading up to the 5th.
There was something else, too that had faded out a long time ago but I remember vaguely as a child...something about going around begging for "penny for the guy"?

Originally Posted by Troy

Bad luck 101 ... bringing lilies into the house unless there's a dead body around...

...*shiver*...

You wouldn't be dead to be stiff if you bought a floozie called Lilly home.

^ You wouldn't say that if you've seen my Aunt Lillian.
...*shiver*...

Originally Posted by tomcat

...*shiver*...

That'll be the first symptom....

...SD's first carved pumpkin attempt:

Originally Posted by tomcat

...SD's first carved pumpkin attempt:

It's a good effort!

Halloween treats...