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The Burger Meister of 10/31
OK for anyone that title you will, I hope, by the end(and if not I will explain).  I hate Halloween.  I mean I really hate it.  The thing that ran around in a costume celebrating, when I was a KID(key point), where maybe one house got really made up, where maybe one woman answered the door all made up like a vampiress(looking back some of those women were not bad looking in that get up..LOL)...that was one thing.  Today it is another!!!  If some kids want to dress up as Superman or a baseball player or a witch, great!!!  Kids in costumes are cute as hell.  And if MAYBE you want to put on a mask as an adult when you open the door, or maybe even get in full costume to gret the kids that come, Ok.  And if in your late teens and early to mis 20's you want to go out, dress up and get blasted and Halloween is as good an excuse as the sun came out, OK.  What I hate with a passion  is the fact I drive by 15 houses that make their lawn up like a grave yard/haunted mansion/death trap....What I hate is that adults, and using that term loosely here, dress up and come to wrk in some sort of costume...HELLO work is work it is not playtime!!!!  And grow up!!!  I remember when you outgrew Halloween in your mid teens, now 50 yr old men rum around like 2 yr olds!!!!!   And what is this all about?  DEATH..Listen I love Christmas like nobody else, I would spend a fortune to make my house into a Christmas dreamland if I had it(within reason), but that holiday is about positive things even if you are not religious.  This thing in October is about death and killing and that negative crap....and if you disagree stop and look at one of those lawn displays and show me a positive image.  And I think this all is about the fact that people of my generation(I am technically a Baby Boomer but I have ofter thought that there should be another name for us that are at the tail end as I was months old when JFK was killed and most babyboomer remember that, hell I barely remember RFK dieing and there are boomer that worked on his campaign)refuse to grow up....and there is lil hope for the next generation in that we have grown men, man-children, that are playing video games.  Listen this is going into another subject that I will address another day so.....OH and the title,,,remeberas a kid that animated special about how Santa Claus was developed, how he did all he did, and there was a a guy running the town the Burger Meister Meister Burgerthat abolished gifts and toys...well that is the explination.....later  
Posted by whiteknight on 2007-10-26 04:59:01 | Rating: n/a | Views: 81


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Posted by
reachingforthestars
on 2007-10-26 05:45:22
 
Sounds like there is something more underlying there that has you in such a tissy about halloween. I was under the impression that the meaning of halloween, was that loved ones use to dress up in costume and carve out scary faces out of vegetables to ward off evil spirits so that there loved ones could have a safe passage to the afterlife. Then later on the catholic church didn't agree on these rituals and changed it be known as saints day were people were to dress up as saints. Ans that the young men in the towns were to go around and knock on doors begging for food to give to the towns poor. then later on the tradition was changed to hollows day combining the tow rituals of the past. Which no leads us to now. So back then even adults dressed up and played there part.

I guess what I am getting at is, what is so wrong in having some fun. These days everyone is so busy with their lives and stressed and worried about one thing or another, that one day a year to let our hair down and have fun then why not.

Ohh and you forgot one more saying you could have used ahhhhhumbug. (lol)

 
 

Posted by
reachingforthestars
on 2007-10-26 05:46:56
 
Damm a few mistakes in that post wish we could go back and edit lol
 
 

Posted by
whiteknight
on 2007-10-26 06:06:59
 
Was not looking at the ancient ritual but more the childish thing it is now... and yes, there is more to my feelings on this but I have never really got the point of this, even as a kid. Guess I am just Ebenser Boo-ze
 
 

Posted by
Whitters
on 2007-10-26 06:13:49
 
I think Halloween is what you make of it. It can be made into something gross or something fun. My church does a 'Trick by Trunk', instead of the kids going door to door - there's a gathering at the church where everyone parks and the kids run around safely gathering candy from other people's trunks. It's supervised and a lot of fun. They have pumpkin carvings -etc.
Typically I was content with staying at home and passing out candy - but it really ruined it for me when I started seeing young adults coming up knocking on the door, without costume and they just hold their bag open.
I can understand small kids who aren't in costume, maybe their parents didn't have the money for one, so I typically load them down with extra candy. It's the "BIG KIDS" that drive me crazy.
I'm sorry that you're going through the Halloween Grumps.
 
 


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