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Ha-Ha-Happy Ha-Ha-Halloween!!!
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>st.helier wrote:
>> Yet another undesirable export from the USA has emerged in NZ.
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>> OK - I don't mind Harley Davidsons and Cadillacs and Zinfandels, but this
is
>> something which I place right alongside Big Macs and George Bushes - best
>> kept on the other side of the Pacific.
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>> Last night, during dinner, my wife and I were brutally accosted by three
>> neighbourhood terrorists demanding valuables, threatening endangerment to
my
>> person or property.
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>> Standing over these 5-6-7- year old monsters, hovering at the gateway, was
>> their Osama-Bin-Father, who was not amused when I offered the most valuable
>> thing I had to hand, a glass of 1998 Browns (Padthaway) 'Ernest' Shiraz out
>> of South Australia - humourless *******!!!!!
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>> Spoiled a very nice example of Aussie shiraz from a great year.
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>Condolences, St. H. and fie on that humo(u)rless father! Over the past
>two decades, we've seen the opposite trend here in the USofA: parents
>have become so scared of their own neighbors that little Johnny and Jane
>are no longer allowed to trick-or-treat on their own or in the company
>of their peers, but now have to be shepherded around by fearful parents
>looking for signs of LSD, strychnine and razorblades in their progeny's
>ill-gotten gains -- or, worse yet, gated communities have a "private,"
>stage managed, Halloween trick-or-treat in some central location . The
>real tragedy is that, when media reports of doctored candy and fruit are
>examined, it's found that there are only two credible reports EVER, both
>of which have been characterized as copycat acts spurred by media
>reports of urban legends. And so, another urban legend essentially ends
>a part of the US lifestyle and drives us (no pun intended) further apart
>from our fellow citizens -- quelle dommage.
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>Mark Lipton
Yes, it is unfortunate that the "times in which we live," actually reinforce
the idea, that it COULD happen, so everyone becomes wary. In my little
enclave, the party still disbands to the neighborhood (behind locked,
monitored gate), so there is still some of the tradition. Besides, my Bulldogs
think that Halloween is the *best* night of the year, as they get to greet the
little ones. It is usually the trick-or-treaters, who are scared, but with no
basis, other than the media reports on vicious pit-bulls, of which mine are
not. Oh well, I suppose that I'll have to quit hanging hooks on the cars
parked at the local "lover's lane... "
Hunt
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