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QueenofHearts
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 Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 2:24 pm Post subject: Halloween |
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Hey Shippensburg!
Halloween is on a Thursday this year...why isn't "Trick or Treating"?
What is wrong with having Halloween ON Halloween? For heavens sake, it's a kids night, and only from 6 - 8 in the evening. Let them have it on the right night. |
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Mavis
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| Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 2:27 pm Post subject: |
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It is an odd Franklin County practice to have trick or treating on a night other than Halloween.
So the night varies from community to community. Maybe some familes travel around and participate on different nights?
In my community, van-loads of kids are dropped off on my street. I have no idea where they're from. |
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QueenofHearts
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| Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 2:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Mavis wrote: | It is an odd Franklin County practice to have trick or treating on a night other than Halloween.
So the night varies from community to community. Maybe some familes travel around and participate on different nights?
In my community, van-loads of kids are dropped off on my street. I have no idea where they're from. |
That's just poor parenting! Trick or treating is for kids, not 13-20 year-olds who often show up at the doors.
When I was little, my parents stopped allowing me to go out at 6th grade. That's what I did with my kids, now I have a grandchild who has followed the tradition. |
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Me!!!!!!!!
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| Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 2:56 pm Post subject: |
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 Last year I had alot of "strange" teenage kids showing up at my door and I had aspecial basket.....one piece where as smaller kids got the already prepared bags I had ready. I wonder how many I'll get this year. It is for little kids!!  |
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faeryedark
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| Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 11:16 am Post subject: |
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| You know, they make these really nasty tasting vitamin powder sticks that look just like pixie sticks. It'd be umm a shame if some of those made it into the Trick or Treat bags of those older kids |
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QueenofHearts
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| Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 2:37 pm Post subject: |
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| faeryedark wrote: | | You know, they make these really nasty tasting vitamin powder sticks that look just like pixie sticks. It'd be umm a shame if some of those made it into the Trick or Treat bags of those older kids |
Too bad they cost so much. Besaides, you would run the risk of a possible overdose of some vitamin.
I do like your sense of humour though! |
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Amatrine
Joined: 01 Nov 2007
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| Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 10:39 am Post subject: re |
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Do what my neighbor does. He saves all his mustard and ketchup packets for the whole year. When he gets the older kids, and the ones who do not dress up, that is what they get,lol
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Coppy
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| Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 11:53 am Post subject: Re: Halloween |
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| QueenofHearts wrote: | Hey Shippensburg!
Halloween is on a Thursday this year...why isn't "Trick or Treating"?
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Actually, Halloween is on Wednesday  |
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U.S. Blues...
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| Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 10:24 am Post subject: |
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| Having Trick or Treat on a night other than Halloween is actually something the police chiefs of local municipalities decided on years ago. They claim it's all about safety, traffic, and darkness (Day-light savings time used to be earlier until Bush moved it back to conserve energy)...anyhow, if you'd research the issue, I'm sure you would find newspaper articles about this...bottom line, the police chiefs signed some agreement and it's been that way ever since...the local communities really have no say in the matter (from what I understand)... |
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Coppy
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| Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 10:37 am Post subject: |
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| U.S. Blues... wrote: | | Having Trick or Treat on a night other than Halloween is actually something the police chiefs of local municipalities decided on years ago. They claim it's all about safety, traffic, and darkness (Day-light savings time used to be earlier until Bush moved it back to conserve energy)...anyhow, if you'd research the issue, I'm sure you would find newspaper articles about this...bottom line, the police chiefs signed some agreement and it's been that way ever since...the local communities really have no say in the matter (from what I understand)... |
What is the deal with Daylight Saving Time being extended? Was it Bush's idea? Does it really save energy?
| Wikipedia wrote: | The Energy Policy Act of 2005 (Pub.L. 109-058) is a statute that was passed by the United States Congress on July 29, 2005 and signed into law by President George W. Bush on August 8, 2005 at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The Act, described by proponents as an attempt to combat growing energy problems, provides tax incentives and loan guarantees for energy production of various types.
The bill amends the Uniform Time Act of 1966 by changing the start and end dates of daylight saving time starting in 2007. Clocks were set ahead one hour on the second Sunday of March (March 11, 2007) instead of the first Sunday of April (April 1, 2007). Clocks will be set back one hour on the first Sunday in November (November 4, 2007), rather than the last Sunday of October (October 28, 2007). Lobbyists for this provision included the Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association, the National Association of Convenience Stores, and the National Retinitis Pigmentosa Foundation Fighting Blindness; lobbyists against included the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, the National Parent-Teacher Association, the Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium, the Edison Electric Institute, and the Air Transport Association. This section of the act is controversial; some have questioned whether daylight saving results in a net energy savings.
Texas companies in particular benefit from the bill. This criticism is heightened by the fact that President George W. Bush, the House Majority Leader (Tom DeLay), and the Chairman of the House Energy & Commerce Committee (Joe Barton) were all from Texas. The fact that the bill passed 66-29 with wide support from Democrats for the bill has not calmed this criticism. |
Why can't we just tell people to conserve energy? Oh, there goes that social responsibility thing again... nah, lets just ask them to change their clocks later. I can tell you this; folks that work in certain industries have been effected very negatively by this change. |
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QueenofHearts
Joined: 22 Oct 2007
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| Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 9:14 am Post subject: Re: Halloween |
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| Coppy wrote: | | QueenofHearts wrote: | Hey Shippensburg!
Halloween is on a Thursday this year...why isn't "Trick or Treating"?
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Actually, Halloween is on Wednesday |
You know, I have one of those "dry erase" calendars. I looked up the other day and noticed that I wrote the 26th down TWICE!!! I guess, I must have liked that day, or something. Boy did I feel stupid!
About the Daylight Savings thing...
Didn't they try that about 30 something years ago, sometime in the mid 70's? I remember it causing a big problem with kids going to school in the dark. Maybe that was the year it went to all year Daylight Savings? Any help? |
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.45chel
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| Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 5:18 pm Post subject: |
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ummm, No help really, but Ben Franklin thought up Daylight Savings in order to save candles.
Please take my useless knowledge and keep it for your own!
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Coppy
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| Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 5:41 pm Post subject: |
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| .45chel wrote: | ummm, No help really, but Ben Franklin thought up Daylight Savings in order to save candles.
Please take my useless knowledge and keep it for your own! |
She's sorta right...
| Quote: | | During his time as an American envoy to France, Benjamin Franklin anonymously published a letter in 1784 suggesting that Parisians economize on candles by arising earlier to use morning sunlight. Franklin's satire proposed taxing shutters, rationing candles, and waking the public by ringing church bells and firing cannons at sunrise, in the spirit of his earlier proverb "Early to bed and early to rise / Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise." Franklin did not propose shifting clocks; like ancient Rome, 18th-century Europe did not keep accurate schedules. However, this soon changed as rail and communication networks came to require a standardization of time unknown in Franklin's day. |
So his suggestion wasn't to specifically change the clocks and the suggestion itself was tongue-in-cheek, but B-Frank's advice was eventually turned into DST. |
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.45chel
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| Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 5:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Coppy wrote: |
She's sorta right...
So his suggestion wasn't to specifically change the clocks and the suggestion itself was tongue-in-cheek, but B-Frank's advice was eventually turned into DST. |
Picky, picky.
Hey, who said I was a chick?!
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Coppy
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| Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 5:53 pm Post subject: |
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| .45chel wrote: | | Coppy wrote: |
She's sorta right...
So his suggestion wasn't to specifically change the clocks and the suggestion itself was tongue-in-cheek, but B-Frank's advice was eventually turned into DST. |
Picky, picky.
Hey, who said I was a chick?! |
Uh oh... message board faux pas on my part? |
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