On 10/13/2011 3:06 PM, Doug Freyburger wrote:
> Malcom "Mal" Reynolds wrote:
>>
>> But what I hate is that Halloween should be an universal holiday, a holiday for
>> everyone to collect as much candy as they can...but the kids have taken over a
>> perfectly good holiday.
>
> Celebrate Halloween! And Thanksgiving too! The Christmas decorations
> already come out much too early and they need competition to keep them
> from coming out earlier still next year.

I know this thread is a little old, but I'm still catching up. What I
like Halloween for is all the "scary" movies. Some have really been
gory, but scary? Nope but funny. Tonight I'm watching some 1964 movie
that HAD to be featured on MST3K because it's just hilarious! The
monster is a mix of old vacuum cleaner parts and a big carpet remnant.
The moral of the story seems to be that if you're making out in a car or
in the woods you're going to have to climb into the gullet of the
monster and be eaten. It even has a goofy narrator.