Comments on: A long overdue Halloween missive

By: Hans

Hans — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:41:13 +0000

I’m no Halloween fan either, but then in the UK it’s a bit more sinister than over in the US – here you’re more likely to get eggs lobbed at your house and fake blood through the letter box than little princesses with chocolate aversions.

I was told recently that my cousin’s mother-in-laws friend (tenuous I know)who lives somewhere Texas-ish had over 2000 trick or treaters this year. Now that is a serious expense on what is basically a celebration of all things ugly. I remain unconvinced. Maybe Halloween in the US next year when I’m married and Americanness is slowly filtering into my bloodstream I’ll change my mind.

By: Bella Foxx

Bella Foxx — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:43:33 +0000

That’s why they came up with the ‘baer’ (Big A** Eye Roll)

By: Brooklyn

Brooklyn — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:59:59 +0000

sarah:

“um..yeah i was being a tad sarcastic….i guess i thought maybe it would translate in text…

maybe not…”

Ooops, sorry.

I do find e-mail and blog posts to be very poor media for expressing sarcasm. You can’t see the eye rolling.

By: sarah

sarah — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:28:49 +0000

you know Alasdair, you might be onto something….now where did i put that phone list for the administrative professionals recruitment consulting agency…

By: Alasdair

Alasdair — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:16:17 +0000

Sarah – perhaps someone needed an Administrative Professional to polish the wording before publication ?

By: sarah

sarah — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:34:43 +0000

um..yeah i was being a tad sarcastic….i guess i thought maybe it would translate in text…

maybe not…

By: Brooklyn

Brooklyn — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:37:13 +0000

“administrative professionals day? Brilliant!”
Brilliant?

By: Brooklyn

Brooklyn — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:21:03 +0000

“administrative professionals day? Brilliant!”
Brilliant ? Not so much. It is a supposedly more politically correct name for the greeting card created “Secretaries Day.”

By: sarah

sarah — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:14:35 +0000

administrative professionals day? Brilliant!

By: Brooklyn

Brooklyn — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:20:04 +0000

Dylan: You and I differ on the subject of Halloween.
Despite the commercialization of Halloween, unlike Xtmas, Halloween is not the subject of constant and ubiquitous advertising for six weeks. ( whatever happened to the rule that each holiday is given its own time, so that Xmas advertising did not begin until after Xmas? On that same subject, when I was a kid one of the harbor his of the dreaded beginning of the school year as the appearance of advertising for the fall television season in August; I pity kids who are subjected to advertising for the fall television season in June!)

And, for those of us who do not celebrate Xmas because, despite the efforts of retailirs, it is a Christian holiday,* Halloween is one of the few, it’s not only, US holidays ith no historical significance celebrated by almost all Americans.

[* I know that certain pagans, fundamentalist Christians, an Orthodox Jews and concern themselves with religious aspects of Halloween. Since I’m not one of them, their views of Halloween does not affect me.]

As for the trick or treaters which have been trucked in, there is an explanation. If the kids live in neighborhoods compose solely of apartment buildings, which generally prohibit trigger trading, the kids and their parents are only following the Willie Sutton rule.