Ketchup is good. Really, it is probably the perfect condiment. Mustard... BBQ sauce... even your fancy specialty relishes... GIVE ME A BREAK! There are few foods that this saucy culinary miracle can't add too. It makes unedible foods edibleSpicey and sweet with that hint of mystery. I stand up and say 'thank you ketchup... thank you and god bless you!!!' - next week "How a cookie can save your soul."
Now for something a little more serious. It's fucking Halloween and I love it so. I'm waaaay beyond the point where I can go out to trick or treat and that makes me soooo sad. I haven't dressed up for years but I still get excited when I see all the kids making the rounds. I'm hoping to go see SAW tonight. Nothing like a scary movie on THE night of ghostly nights. Happy haunting. Here's a bit of haunted trivia and stupid bits for y'all!
Halloween In History - via Sleepless Jim
1517 Martin Luther posts 95 theses on Wittenberg Church and starts the Protestant Reformation
1864 Nevada admitted as 36th state
1922 Benito Mussolini (Il Duce) becomes Premier of Italy
1940 Halloween was the deadline for the Jews to move into the Warsaw Ghetto
1952 The first atomic bomb was detonated on the Marshall Islands
1964 Barbra Streisand's "People" album goes #1 for 5 weeks
1968 President Johnson orders a halt to all bombing of North Vietnam
1969 The race riot in Jacksonville Florida
1970 Mamas and Papas singer Michelle Phillips marries actor Dennis Hopper. They divorce 8 days later.
1980 Julian Nott sets world hot-air balloon altitiude record (16,806m)
1983 Ron Grant completes a 217 day, 8,316 mile run around Australia
1987 Chris Antly at Belmont becomes the first jockey to win 9 races in one day.
1988 Singer Debbie Gibson holds a seance at her Halloween Party to contact the spirits of Liberace and Sid Vicious....The fact that I even remember Debbie Gibson frightens me!
Halloween history - thanks to babycenter.com
Many experts believe the druids were the first to observe Halloween. Dating back to 700 B.C., they celebrated the festival of Samhain (the end of the harvest and a time to honor the dead) on November 1. In the ensuing years, the night before became known as the Eve of All Hallows, a.k.a. Hallow Even, a.k.a. Hallow e'en.
Ever wonder how trick-or-treating got started? On the evening before Samhain, people left food on their doorsteps to keep hungry spirits from entering the house. Festivalgoers started dressing in ghost, witch, and goblin costumes so wandering spirits would leave them alone. To this day, these are Halloween's most popular costumes.
The word witch comes from the Saxon word wicca, which means "wise one."
A jack-o'-lantern (also jack-a-lantern) is a hollowed-out pumpkin, originally a turnip, carved into a demonic face and lit with a candle inside. Light from a candle inserted inside can be seen flickering through the jack-o'-lantern's cutout eyes, nose, and usually grotesquely grinning mouth. The custom originated in the British Isles, with a large turnip or other vegetable rather than a pumpkin. The original meaning of the word jack-o'-lantern was "night watchman" or "man with a lantern," but it took on the Halloween sense by 1837, first in Nathaniel Hawthorne's Twice-Told Tales.
Ghost comes from an Old English word gast/gost, "spirit, soul" and has related forms in other West Germanic languages. These related words appear to be connected with Sanskrit hea, "anger, fury."
Goblin is from French and it may be related to the German Kobold, a mythological spirit who haunted homes and lived underground in caves and mines. Etymologists believe it may be related to Greek kobalos and to Latin Gobelinus, mischievous spirits. The goblin carries the connotation of being grotesque and ugly, evil and malicious. The ghost is just downright scary, being the supposed soul of a dead person.
Enough!
Now for something a little more serious. It's fucking Halloween and I love it so. I'm waaaay beyond the point where I can go out to trick or treat and that makes me soooo sad. I haven't dressed up for years but I still get excited when I see all the kids making the rounds. I'm hoping to go see SAW tonight. Nothing like a scary movie on THE night of ghostly nights. Happy haunting. Here's a bit of haunted trivia and stupid bits for y'all!
Halloween In History - via Sleepless Jim
1517 Martin Luther posts 95 theses on Wittenberg Church and starts the Protestant Reformation
1864 Nevada admitted as 36th state
1922 Benito Mussolini (Il Duce) becomes Premier of Italy
1940 Halloween was the deadline for the Jews to move into the Warsaw Ghetto
1952 The first atomic bomb was detonated on the Marshall Islands
1964 Barbra Streisand's "People" album goes #1 for 5 weeks
1968 President Johnson orders a halt to all bombing of North Vietnam
1969 The race riot in Jacksonville Florida
1970 Mamas and Papas singer Michelle Phillips marries actor Dennis Hopper. They divorce 8 days later.
1980 Julian Nott sets world hot-air balloon altitiude record (16,806m)
1983 Ron Grant completes a 217 day, 8,316 mile run around Australia
1987 Chris Antly at Belmont becomes the first jockey to win 9 races in one day.
1988 Singer Debbie Gibson holds a seance at her Halloween Party to contact the spirits of Liberace and Sid Vicious....The fact that I even remember Debbie Gibson frightens me!
Halloween history - thanks to babycenter.com
Many experts believe the druids were the first to observe Halloween. Dating back to 700 B.C., they celebrated the festival of Samhain (the end of the harvest and a time to honor the dead) on November 1. In the ensuing years, the night before became known as the Eve of All Hallows, a.k.a. Hallow Even, a.k.a. Hallow e'en.
Ever wonder how trick-or-treating got started? On the evening before Samhain, people left food on their doorsteps to keep hungry spirits from entering the house. Festivalgoers started dressing in ghost, witch, and goblin costumes so wandering spirits would leave them alone. To this day, these are Halloween's most popular costumes.
The word witch comes from the Saxon word wicca, which means "wise one."
A jack-o'-lantern (also jack-a-lantern) is a hollowed-out pumpkin, originally a turnip, carved into a demonic face and lit with a candle inside. Light from a candle inserted inside can be seen flickering through the jack-o'-lantern's cutout eyes, nose, and usually grotesquely grinning mouth. The custom originated in the British Isles, with a large turnip or other vegetable rather than a pumpkin. The original meaning of the word jack-o'-lantern was "night watchman" or "man with a lantern," but it took on the Halloween sense by 1837, first in Nathaniel Hawthorne's Twice-Told Tales.
Ghost comes from an Old English word gast/gost, "spirit, soul" and has related forms in other West Germanic languages. These related words appear to be connected with Sanskrit hea, "anger, fury."
Goblin is from French and it may be related to the German Kobold, a mythological spirit who haunted homes and lived underground in caves and mines. Etymologists believe it may be related to Greek kobalos and to Latin Gobelinus, mischievous spirits. The goblin carries the connotation of being grotesque and ugly, evil and malicious. The ghost is just downright scary, being the supposed soul of a dead person.
Enough!
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