Hobo Jungle

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Thank you, Wayne. I had a feeling we'd get the best succinct perspective on Halloween from your good offices. Bless you for your excellent mind and convivial spirit. Murph

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Does anybody know why we still celebrate Halloween? It's not a national holiday, as I just learned yesterday watching the news. Are we celebrating candy? Partying in costume? I am also aware it is the most decorated holiday (homes; public places, etc.) second only to Christmas, of course.

Why it continues is open to speculation - celebrating candy and partying in costume would seem the current motivation.....perhaps a final "fling" before Winter arrives with all that it brings to our doors

Winter is coming.

[webenda]

"I think we're all mentally ill; those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better (and maybe not that much better after all)."
— Stephen King

I often think the same thing.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

And then of course we have............clowns.

[rogruth]

That last fling before winter always seemed to be the reason to me.
Ghosts, goblins, witches, etc. just made it more interesting.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

OK, fortunately I do not have photographs of these macabre milestones from my former partying life, but (geeze, I wish I hadn't decided to confess this, BUT...) three characters I went as and still taught high school doing so , over several years, were(hold on to yours butts):
KISS / KIZZ, one of the band members. You can theorize for yourselves which one of the four.
Sly Stone
and...(oivey......)...
Mrs. Doubtfire (My wife helped me strap myself into that get-up. I was especially amused during the drive from home to school that day. At a traffic light, another driver actually made-eyes at me. At least , I think that's what he was doing.)

True stories all.

[webenda]

OK, fortunately I do not have photographs of these macabre milestones from my former partying life, but (geeze, I wish I hadn't decided to confess this, BUT...) three characters I went as and still taught high school doing so , over several years, were(hold on to yours butts):
KISS / KIZZ, one of the band members. You can theorize for yourselves which one of the four.
Sly Stone
and...(oivey......)...
Mrs. Doubtfire (My wife helped me strap myself into that get-up. I was especially amused during the drive from home to school that day. At a traffic light, another driver actually made-eyes at me. At least , I think that's what he was doing.)

True stories all.

Thank you for proving the point I made about crazy people Murph.

I think I will get crazy and repeat it...

"I think we're all mentally ill; those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better (and maybe not that much better after all)."
— Stephen King

I often think the same thing.

All the best people are crazy. => https://youtu.be/OOcnpJjIduw

Especially if they lived through the early 1960s to the mid-1970s. During those psychedelic years major food companies even fed us things like Crazy Cow cereal.


Insane reference: https://youtu.be/BEYHJFIONvU

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Ya had ta be there.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Ya had ta be there.

Ok....................

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Precisely.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

OK, fortunately I do not have photographs of these macabre milestones from my former partying life, but (geeze, I wish I hadn't decided to confess this, BUT...) three characters I went as and still taught high school doing so , over several years, were(hold on to yours butts):
...
Mrs. Doubtfire (My wife helped me strap myself into that get-up. I was especially amused during the drive from home to school that day. At a traffic light, another driver actually made-eyes at me. At least , I think that's what he was doing.)

True stories all.

Thank you for proving the point I made about crazy people Murph.

I think I will get crazy and repeat it...

"I think we're all mentally ill; those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better (and maybe not that much better after all)."
— Stephen King

I often think the same thing.

All the best people are crazy. => https://youtu.be/OOcnpJjIduw

Especially if they lived through the early 1960s to the mid-1970s. During those psychedelic years...

Insane reference: https://youtu.be/BEYHJFIONvU

Yup. Actually some of the students and faculty alleged I looked more like a version of May West (and they may have had a point) than Mrs. Doubtfire, esp. since it was a performing arts school (so free-wheeling interpretations were encouraged , in staff as well as pupils,) but the whole performance was so odd (mind, I don't say in good taste) that we all just had a good ol' time of it, being weird. I was one of the calmer, less alarming clowns of the day. Clown d' jour, nonetheless

[webenda]

Yup. Actually some of the students and faculty alleged I looked more like a version of May West

[Tony-h]

EEEEEEEEEEEEK!!!!!!!!

Tony

[MurphOnMillerAve]

I am actually speechless; however, my wife is still laughing!!!!
There is nobody like you, Wayne. Nobody.

[robert.]

"Does anybody know why we still celebrate Halloween? It's not a national holiday, as I just learned yesterday watching the news. Are we celebrating candy? Partying in costume? I am also aware it is the most decorated holiday (homes; public places, etc.) second only to Christmas, of course." Murph.
Yes. It's to confuse our kids. 364 days a year we tell them not to take candy from strangers. Then one cold dark night we allow them to take as much as they can carry. Go ahead dear take a piece from that man with a bloody knife stuck in his head. It's ok.
My wife and i took our daughter out for her first Halloween. Early in the night we joined a group of parents with some kids her age (3 years old) The kids all raced to be the first to ring the door bell. My wife with camera in hand waited for our kid to get her first piece of free candy. Even the home owner was happy to be in the photo. so my wife took several. Thanks were said the door closed and off we went. Wait one kid is missing. I knock on the door again and out comes the witch. "have you seen my daughter." No "replies the witch. I tell her "she never came out" just then my daughter runs through the lady's living room shouting a kitty a kitty. My little monster had slipped by everybody to chase that little kitten.