All Hallows' eve
Happy Halloweeeeeeeen, guys; maybe the forces of darkness ever haunt this day
Oh no! The one night of the year when my true horror is unleashed upon the world! Oh wait, maybe that's a good thing?
Idiots. Halloween is a Yank tradition.
Yeah, but most people stay home during weekends though they aren't catholic, doesn't matter who's tradition it is. I'm atheist and I still enjoy Easter and Christmas.
Thus sayeth Wikipedia: Historian Nicholas Rogers, exploring the origins of Halloween, notes that while "some folklorists have detected its origins in the Roman feast of Pomona, the goddess of fruits and seeds, or in the festival of the dead called Parentalia, it is more typically linked to the celtic festival of Samhain or Samuin (pronounced sow-an or sow-in)", which is derived from Old Irish and means roughly "summer's end". A similar festival was held by the ancient Britons and is known as Calan Gaeaf (pronounced kalan-geyf).
Snap-Apple Night by Daniel Maclise showing a Halloween party in Blarney, Ireland, in 1832. The young children on the right bob for apples. A couple in the center play a variant, which involves retrieving an apple hanging from a string. The couples at left play divination games.
The festival of Samhain celebrates the end of the "lighter half" of the year and beginning of the "darker half", and is sometimes regarded as the "Celtic New Year".
The celebration has some elements of a festival of the dead. The ancient Celts believed that the border between this world and the Otherworld became thin on Samhain, allowing spirits (both harmless and harmful) to pass through. The family's ancestors were honoured and invited home whilst harmful spirits were warded off. It is believed that the need to ward off harmful spirits led to the wearing of costumes and masks. Their purpose was to disguise oneself as a harmful spirit and thus avoid harm. In Scotland the spirits were impersonated by young men dressed in white with masked, veiled or blackened faces.] Samhain was also a time to take stock of food supplies and slaughter livestock for winter stores. Bonfires played a large part in the festivities. All other fires were doused and each home lit their hearth from the bonfire. The bones of slaughtered livestock were cast into its flames. Sometimes two bonfires would be built side-by-side, and people and their livestock would walk between them as a cleansing ritual.
Another common practise was divination, which often involved the use of food and drink.
The name 'Halloween' and many of its present-day traditions derive from the Old English era
So crunch on that, you happy little Austrian
Snap-Apple Night by Daniel Maclise showing a Halloween party in Blarney, Ireland, in 1832. The young children on the right bob for apples. A couple in the center play a variant, which involves retrieving an apple hanging from a string. The couples at left play divination games.
The festival of Samhain celebrates the end of the "lighter half" of the year and beginning of the "darker half", and is sometimes regarded as the "Celtic New Year".
The celebration has some elements of a festival of the dead. The ancient Celts believed that the border between this world and the Otherworld became thin on Samhain, allowing spirits (both harmless and harmful) to pass through. The family's ancestors were honoured and invited home whilst harmful spirits were warded off. It is believed that the need to ward off harmful spirits led to the wearing of costumes and masks. Their purpose was to disguise oneself as a harmful spirit and thus avoid harm. In Scotland the spirits were impersonated by young men dressed in white with masked, veiled or blackened faces.] Samhain was also a time to take stock of food supplies and slaughter livestock for winter stores. Bonfires played a large part in the festivities. All other fires were doused and each home lit their hearth from the bonfire. The bones of slaughtered livestock were cast into its flames. Sometimes two bonfires would be built side-by-side, and people and their livestock would walk between them as a cleansing ritual.
Another common practise was divination, which often involved the use of food and drink.
The name 'Halloween' and many of its present-day traditions derive from the Old English era
So crunch on that, you happy little Austrian
BOMB IRAQ!! sorry, had to say it...
Keep American's away from the moon!! It doesn't belong to just them!!
Cant help myself *grin*
Cant help myself *grin*
"BOMB IRAQ!! sorry, had to say it..."
Off-topicz crapz0r fTw!
Off-topicz crapz0r fTw!
It belongs not to New Zealand, but to the cows whose milk flew into the sky and creamed itself into the crater-filled mass we call the moon. 
It also belongs to my secret stash of bombs, but they aren't aimed at Iraq zeddexx.
*bombs Austalia*
It also belongs to my secret stash of bombs, but they aren't aimed at Iraq zeddexx.
*bombs Austalia*
What a shame that stats have shown 99% of all bombs thrown at Australia land in A.) Darwin B.) Knox City shopping centre or C.) The Desert
Nope I am not saying the moon belongs to NZ, I am saying it belongs to everyone not JUST America - didn't you know they just sent a bomb up (penetrated the surface) - it to see if there was water on it. What would happen if they knocked the old man off - where would he go then hmm???
I assume 50% of those are zeddex's failed attempts at bombing Iraq... bad aim?
Well, yes. I mean, New Zealand is so small that when they fire a missile, the entire island moves, altering the missile trajectory
As long as it doesn't bump us closer to Aussie land that's fine Schnap LOL
Go too far and you might hit South America...
South America? I'd have thought we would hit Easter Island first!
Or better yet, Hawaii, after fusing together with the Cook Isles again.
Or better yet, Hawaii, after fusing together with the Cook Isles again.
Ohhhh Ex D RoadTrip?? Hawaii saounds great
LOL
LOL
You bad aim already blew Easter Island up, I think... not too sure though.
