Happy Halloween!

Tracey wrote:
> http://img64211.pictiger.com/images/12923706/
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Happy Halloween! I love that pic!!

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Dewi wrote:
> "Tracey" wrote:

>> http://img64211.pictiger.com/images/12923706/
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> Just curious, but is Halloween celebrated in the UK?

Not like in America, I suspect. We have imported a few of your traditions,
like pumpkin carving, which is great because at this time of year you can
pick up a huge pumpkin for virtually nothing, and have lots of lovely
chutneys and pies and vegetable with dinner. Strange thing is that they're
sold as carving pumpkins, whereas smaller ones are sold as eating pumpkins,
and I've come to the conclusion that people don't realise they're edible!
99p ($2) isn't bad for a pumpkin nearly a foot across. Kids also go trick-
or-treating sometimes. A lot of the time that just means gangs of plain-
clothes fifteen year olds knocking on your door and demanding money with
menaces.

We tend to do most of our celebrating at this time of year on Guy Fawkes'
night AKA bonfire knight, on the 5th of November (well, a lot of people let
off fireworks on the weekend before or the one afterwards, cause that way
it interferes less with work, and there are a lot of organised bonfire and
fireworks parties, which are safer and cheaper to go to), which doesn't
leave a lot of space for going all out on Hallowe'en. In case you're not
familiar with it, it celebrates the failure of a plot to blow up the Houses
of Parliament by a gang of RC conspirators, including Guy Fawkes.

Rosemary
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Rosemary wrote:
> In case you're not familiar with it, it celebrates the failure of a
> plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament by a gang of RC
> conspirators, including Guy Fawkes.

We celebrate the failure? =:-____]

All these years I thought we were celebrating that he almost made it...
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Actually I'm Australian and people pretty much don't do anything for
Halloween, or Guy Fawkes day for that matter. I do remember guy
fawkes though. When I was a kid we lived in Brunei (in SE Asia) and
they celebrated it there. Actually I don't think the locals celebrated
it, but there were a lot of English there who did.

Dewi
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Michael Rozdoba wrote:
> Rosemary wrote:

>> In case you're not familiar with it, it celebrates the failure of a
>> plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament by a gang of RC
>> conspirators, including Guy Fawkes.
>
> We celebrate the failure? =:-____]
>
> All these years I thought we were celebrating that he almost made it...

I suppose it depends on your point of view. :-D

I'm not a big fan of Catholicism or the Houses of Parliament, myself. I'd
be dead happy if the Pope strapped himself in explosives and went on a
suicide mission to the Commons. :-)

Rosemary
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"Dewi" <widget4000.TakeThisOut@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
news:1193832020.107925.284190@e34g2000pro.googlegroups.com...
> On Oct 31, 8:15 pm, "Tracey" <tracey7....TakeThisOut@ukonline.co.uk> wrote:
>> http://img64211.pictiger.com/images/12923706/
>
> Just curious, but is Halloween celebrated in the UK?
>
> Dewi
>

The US and the way they celebrate Halloween has definitely come over here
full force in the last decade or so. As a kid in the seventies I remember
we made nowhere near as much of a deal of it as they do now, especially with
things such as trick or treating. Is it celebrated in Australia?

Rosemary, I too love the fact you can get pumpkins really cheap around
Halloween - I always make lots of pumpkin soup, yum :o)

Tracey
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Rosemary wrote:
> Michael Rozdoba wrote:
>> Rosemary wrote:
>
>>> In case you're not familiar with it, it celebrates the failure of a
>>> plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament by a gang of RC
>>> conspirators, including Guy Fawkes.
>> We celebrate the failure? =:-____]
>>
>> All these years I thought we were celebrating that he almost made it...
>
> I suppose it depends on your point of view. :-D
>
> I'm not a big fan of Catholicism or the Houses of Parliament, myself. I'd
> be dead happy if the Pope strapped himself in explosives and went on a
> suicide mission to the Commons. :-)

LOL. Sounds like a good idea for a video game.
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