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Halloween has lost it's appeal

post #1 of 20
10/25/07 at 12:10pm
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Well for me it has. I think it's finally caught up to me. I would consider myself a horror fanatic.

Several years ago I would look forward to Halloween. You get to celebrate horror and spooky stuff without people looking at you strangely or wonder why you've got so many horror movies strewn about. Or why are you watching that horror movie in the middle of the day looks. Etc.

Now I've seen so many horror movies I lost count. Or someone mentions a movie and I can immediately tell where it's influence came from or where they stole their ideas.

I've also become disappointed in haunted houses. Only the really obscure reference holds any luster. The rest, I've seen a million times. I caught myself a few years ago leaving the group I was with because I just wanted to keep it moving. I understood why someone would get scared at what they saw and also frustrated with their shallow depth of experiences in horror.

I've become jaded.

Honestly Halloween's only appeal for me right now is to put on an original costume. But that usually ends up in failure because people ask what movie is that from. Or they don't understand your costume, and end up disregarding the originality of what I was trying to accomplish.

For me Halloween is a year long event. October is nothing different, it just seems that everyone else finally realizes horror, ghost and goblins, and all things spooky can be fun. They finally high five each other in delight. Then quickly regress back wondering why someone would like this crap.
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post #2 of 20
10/25/07 at 12:12pm
Blame Daeg Faerch.
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post #3 of 20
10/25/07 at 12:18pm
Carpenter wrote it as an allegory for Vietnam.
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post #4 of 20
10/25/07 at 12:19pm
But like all Carpenter's films...it's really a Western.
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post #5 of 20
10/25/07 at 12:38pm
I blame Haliburton. Damn you Karl Rove!
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post #6 of 20
10/25/07 at 12:58pm
Billylove, I give you Faith Hill's timeless "Where Are You Christmas" (as seen in the hit film How the Grinch Stole Christmas), but with special new lyrics just for you:

Quote:
Where are you Halloween
Why can't I find you
Why have you gone away
Where is the laughter
You used to bring me
Why can't I hear music play

My world is changing
I'm rearranging
Does that mean Halloween changes too

Where are you Halloween
Do you remember
The one you used to know
I'm not the same one
See what the time's done
Is that why you have let me go

Halloween is here
Everywhere, oh
Halloween is here
If you care, oh

If there is love in your heart and your mind
You will feel like Halloween all the time

I feel you Halloween
I know I've found you
You never fade away
The joy of Halloween
Stays here inside us
Fills each and every heart with love

Where are you Halloween
Fill your heart with love
I thought about changing every reference to love to "fear", but, well, that'd just be overkill.

Now, man up, get yourself a Pumpkin Ale and some wax Vampire teeth and celebrate.
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post #7 of 20
10/25/07 at 1:36pm
I still love Halloween, but I'm sick of the trick-or-treaters. It's fun for about the first five kids. After that, it's just irritating. You can't do anything, since you're constantly being interrupted. I wish trick-or-treaters would sync up with commercials, because then at least I'd be able to watch a movie. And that's saying NOTHING about the asshole teens who show up at my door in streetclothes, and then have the audacity to demand goods from my home. At that point, it's like I'm being robbed of my candy.

Also, when I get down to 25% of my original candy supplies on Halloween, I get weirdly panicked.
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post #8 of 20
10/25/07 at 1:40pm
I can kinda see where he's coming from. With my job and daughter, I barely have time to shop for a costume, let alone make one. And being married and poor, I don't have time or money for haunted houses/hayrides, amusement parks, and babysitters so I can go to the parties I've been invited to. Fortunately, I get to see her have fun playing dress-up and running around and kinda live vicariously through her.

As a horror fan, I'm gonna have to quote an old Ministry (Faith Hill???) tune: "Everyday Is Halloween"

well I live with snakes and lizards
and other things that go bump in the night
cos to me everyday is halloween
I have given up hiding and started to fight
I have started to fight

well any time, any place, anywhere that I go
all the people seem to stop and stare
they say 'why are you dressed like it's halloween?
you look so absurd, you look so obscene'

o, why can't I live a life for me?
why should I take the abuse that's served?
why can't they see they're just like me
it's the same, it's the same in the whole wide world

well I let their teeny minds think
that they're dealing with someone
who is over the brink
and I dress this way just to keep them at bay
cos halloween is everyday
it's everyday

o, why can't I live a life for me?
why should I take the abuse that's served?
why can't they see they're just like me
it's the same, it's the same in the whole wide world

o, why can't I live a life for me?
why should I take the abuse that's served?
why can't they see they're just like me
i'm not the one that's so absurd

why hide it?
why fight it?
hurt feelings
best to stop feeling hurt
from denials, reprisals
it's the same it's the same in the whole wide world
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post #9 of 20
10/25/07 at 1:50pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by Minsky

Also, when I get down to 25% of my original candy supplies on Halloween, I get weirdly panicked.
It's like that scene in Aliens with the sentry guns. "D bowl is down to twenty. Ten. It's out!"
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post #10 of 20
10/25/07 at 1:59pm
What's funny is that at the beginning of the night, I'm giving out candy by the fistful- It's like I'm jesus, but instead of bread, I've got a bowl of mini snickers. At 30%, I start to get worried. At 25%, i start hoarding. Down to 15%, and start mixing in office supplies. I hope you like Pendaflex Label Clips, you greedy little assholes!
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post #11 of 20
10/25/07 at 2:05pm
You really gotta drop in candy yourselves, cuase those little bastards always grab a fistful and somehow manage to leave the crappy items behind (Chocolate is first to go and Smarties are always straggling to the end). How is it possible for them to be so discerning when they just grab a big handful? Crafty little buggers. Either that, or Smarties are designed to evade capture.
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post #12 of 20
10/25/07 at 2:14pm
You must spread some reputation around before giving it to Minksy again...

We don't get trick-or-treaters, because we live in a locked building, but DaveB and I do go over to my parents' house for trick-or-treat, where they get between 125-200 kids. My father, The Candy Kingpin of Southeastern Wisconsin, spends about $150 on candy every year, making up individual bags of five pieces of candy for every kid. He makes a special bowl of toddler-appropriate bags, and keeps a bowl of crappy stuff for anyone over the age of 13 (I enjoy pointedly asking what grade they're in when I hand it over). But, like Minsky, my dad suffers from candy panic. At some point in the afternoon, he will come to the conclusion that we're going to run out of candy and we start opening up the bags. In 24 years in the same house, I think they've only run out once, but he still cracks almost every year. I think the thought of a tiny, adorable 5-year-old witch bursting into tears when she finds out that there is no more candy haunts him in the days leading up to trick-or-treat.
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post #13 of 20
10/25/07 at 2:21pm
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Originally Posted by MissZooey
I think the thought of a tiny, adorable 5-year-old witch bursting into tears when she finds out that there is no more candy haunts him in the days leading up to trick-or-treat.
That's when you start rummaging through the pantry/fridge for tiny sample jars of jelly, individual packets of hot cocoa... or throat lozenges.

"YES! I found the tiny net-bag of chalky mints in your purse from that wedding reception last month!... Here ya go kid. Enjoy."
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post #14 of 20
10/25/07 at 2:32pm
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Originally Posted by DARKMITE8
Either that, or Smarties are designed to evade capture.
That's it right there. Smarties are like the Pringles of candy. You can always pick them out by their packaging in those little twist bags with that long, thin roll of candies. They need to design a plastic container that's shaped like a candy bar, then wrap each container individually. Those little bastards won't know the difference.
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post #15 of 20
10/25/07 at 2:41pm
I was lucky. About the time I outgrew trick-or-treating my little sister, who was born on Halloween, always wanted me to take her. That turned into a really sweet deal. She did all the work and so many people would say "and here's one for your brother". I got candy she would have to carry and I did not even have to dress up or say anything.
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post #16 of 20
10/25/07 at 2:47pm
Smarties are awesome! I've spent many a night hepped up on pure, colored sugar than I'd like to remember.

God awful mess for your teeth, though. Just....oh god...horrible...
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post #17 of 20
10/25/07 at 2:48pm
Yesterday I came home to a enormous bowl filled to the brim with snickers, twix, milky way and kit-kats. My wife gets home first at around 6:30, well after most of the younger kids are done. So if this turns out to be like last year, my wife and I will eat half of the candy on our own, while the other 50% will be going to a few kids, many overaged teens and the well-developed 14 year old in the slutty Supergirl costume, who showed-up at 8:30 last year and caused my wife to have a stroke.
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post #18 of 20
10/25/07 at 2:54pm
http://www.theonion.com/content/file...-Halloween.jpg

Post #2,000!
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post #19 of 20
10/25/07 at 2:58pm
You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Minsky again.

Office supplies. Nice.
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post #20 of 20
10/25/07 at 4:33pm
I'm just sick of people ripping off the genius Garth Merenghi. It seems like every good idea these days is simply a remnant of his accomplished literary novels, all stemming from the source of his dark, brooding, mysterious and prize-winning 'Darkplace'.
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