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11/5/2006 4:59:20 PM
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Why do Americans dress up as non-scary things at Halloween?
I know im a tiny bit late with this, but seriously, why?
The idea of Halloween is to honour the dead, which is done normally by dressing up as scary things and trick-or-treating. But spacemen, ballerinas and clowns are not scary (unless you are wierd or had some bad childhood experiences)!
Seriously, why do you dress up as things that aren't scary? Is it just for the fun? Or is it that [i]you are[/i] scared of those things and normal people aren't?
warning: this is not intended as a cultural flame war.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] ultimate muffin all i did was wore a really good, detailed zombie masked. It seemed to freak out some kids, also my friend, she kept telling me to take it off but i refused. It was such a good mask.[/quote] YOU IDIOT SHE WAS PROBABLY TALKING ABOUT YOUR PANTS! You lost out......
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Because we can
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all i did was wore a really good, detailed zombie masked. It seemed to freak out some kids, also my friend, she kept telling me to take it off but i refused. It was such a good mask.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Highlight118 [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Spoonage UK YEAH MAN! there where masks that looked like michael jackson in Woolworths!!! Now THATS scary!!![/quote] omg another micheal jackson ur funny... really thats not old at all *rolls eyes*[/quote] I wasnt trying to be funny at all. im being serious It looked exactly like him
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Spoonage UK YEAH MAN! there where masks that looked like michael jackson in Woolworths!!! Now THATS scary!!![/quote] omg another micheal jackson ur funny... really thats not old at all *rolls eyes*
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Tartan 118 I know im a tiny bit late with this, but seriously, why? The idea of Halloween is to honour the dead, which is done normally by dressing up as scary things and trick-or-treating. But spacemen, ballerinas and clowns are not scary (unless you are wierd or had some bad childhood experiences)! Seriously, why do you dress up as things that aren't scary? Is it just for the fun? Or is it that [i]you are[/i] scared of those things and normal people aren't? warning: this is not intended as a cultural flame war.[/quote] YEAH MAN! there where masks that looked like michael jackson in Woolworths!!! Now THATS scary!!!
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Tartan 118 [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] xTRIGGER092x Last time I checked, Halloween wasn't to honor the dead. You're thinking about the Mexican Holiday, the Day of the Dead...[/quote] [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween]You can always check up with your good friend, wikipedia[/url] u must have edited[/quote] There's no "edited on" text in his post (if you were talking to evilcam). Many cultures have their own days to honor the dead.
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My friends and I wore scary costumes and went to person 1's house. we stayeed there and scared people. person 1 would go up on the roof and act wierd. I would stand in front with a scary mask and stand absolutly still, when people came by, they would stare, then I would say "please follow along the path and try not to be scared. then person 3 would hide in the bushes nearby wearing a hickey mask. he would be in a place where you couldn't see him, and after the people got candy and though that it was over, he would jump out, scream, and shake a beer can filled with coins. we scared so many people, I'm not kidding you, a big group came by and the next thing they knew, they were running down the street screaming. [Edited on 11/5/2006]
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] The Spetnaz Halloween is about fun, chocolate rivers, gummy drop lanes and childs laughter. Who gives a -blam!- how people choose to celebrate the holiday, the main thing is that it's a holiday that is not religious, and I HATE Religious holidays. Unless they get me out of school of course.[/quote] Happy peanut song..over chocolate covered mountain tops. And waterfalls of caramel.. Pranceing nugat in the meadow..sings a song of satisfaction. Toooo theeee worllld. The world.
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Halloween is about fun, chocolate rivers, gummy drop lanes and childs laughter. Who gives a -blam!- how people choose to celebrate the holiday, the main thing is that it's a holiday that is not religious, and I HATE Religious holidays. Unless they get me out of school of course. [Edited on 11/5/2006]
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] JAVA2 [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] ferret i dressed up as a loser at strip-poker. I'd say that's pretty scary.[/quote] Or pretty HAWT....[/quote] I was there
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] ferret i dressed up as a loser at strip-poker. I'd say that's pretty scary.[/quote] Or pretty HAWT....
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i dressed up as a loser at strip-poker. I'd say that's pretty scary.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Piggyfool1 Where do you live? Here in America Halloween is [u]not[/u] ment for celebrating the dead. Even if it was/is, that's not the point. We trick-or-treat and all that stuff. I'm sorry every country in the world can't be like yours.[/quote] anyone get annoyed when they see xmas as a commercialised exploitation that dominates the latter third of the year? thats what halloween is like when people dress up stupidly and not scarily
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Maybe I should answer your question with a question: How is dressing up as a scary serial-killer supposed to honour the dead in the first place? No matter what, it doesn't make sense.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Tartan 118 [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] doctor woot [url=http://img270.imageshack.us/img270/4986/1159240370150tm0.jpg]because we're whores.[/url][/quote] you're gonna use that picture a lot in future aren't you?[/quote][url=http://img270.imageshack.us/img270/4986/1159240370150tm0.jpg]better get used to it[/url]
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I dressed as Barf from Spaceballs this year. Why? Because its damn funny.
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Where do you live? Here in America Halloween is [u]not[/u] ment for celebrating the dead. Even if it was/is, that's not the point. We trick-or-treat and all that stuff. I'm sorry every country in the world can't be like yours. [Edited on 11/5/2006]
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Tartan 118 [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] xTRIGGER092x Last time I checked, Halloween wasn't to honor the dead. You're thinking about the Mexican Holiday, the Day of the Dead...[/quote] [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween]You can always check up with your good friend, wikipedia[/url] u must have edited[/quote]I think it is Dia de los muertos your thinking of...
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] xTRIGGER092x Last time I checked, Halloween wasn't to honor the dead. You're thinking about the Mexican Holiday, the Day of the Dead...[/quote] [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween]You can always check up with your good friend, wikipedia[/url] u must have edited [Edited on 11/5/2006]
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origionally it was called All Hallows Eve. Actually, I don't know what the Celts first called it, but that's the entemology in english. It was about honoring the dead. It had some thing to do with the end of the harvest or replanting seeds too. Life and death and crops are intertwined in those cultures. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween]Wikipedia's entry[/url]
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I don't dress up. I take the neighborhood sex offender, and put them on a leash, and walk them near small children.
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Last time I checked, Halloween wasn't to honor the dead. You're thinking about the Mexican Holiday, the Day of the Dead...
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Nice generalization. Little kids don't dress up in scary costumes because they're not allowed to. Or they probably don't understand the concept of a "scary costume" and just go as whatever they're into then. I thinks the celebration is about having fun, not trying to be scary. i don't dress up as anything. I never thought any costume or idea I saw on Halloween was ever scary. I actually might lack the mental function called fear. At least in illogical situations.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] JAVA2 I dress up as non-scary things so that the small children wont be scared to get the candy out of the back seat of my van.....if I'm scary, then the kids wont get in the van..then I will spend the night alone and hungry.[/quote] ...oh.....
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I dress up as non-scary things so that the small children wont be scared to get the candy out of the back seat of my van.....if I'm scary, then the kids wont get in the van..then I will spend the night alone and hungry. [Edited on 11/5/2006]
