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North Americans - A Traditional Halloween Question
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Kikomom



Joined: 24 Jun 2008
Location: them thar hills--Penna, USA--Zippy is my kid, the teacher in ROK. You can call me Kiko

PostPosted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 10:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

blurgalurgalurga wrote:
Egg was a verb in my town too.

Soap and corn where I come from... them thar hills. Soaping windows of cars parked on the street, and spending the afternoon hours shucking dried corn from someone's corn crib to throw by the handfuls at drivers from some remote hillside after dark. The fun was when they stopped and got out to chase us.
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.38 Special



Joined: 08 Jul 2009
Location: Pennsylvania

PostPosted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 11:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm from rural Penn., but Detroit is the Mecca of Devil's Nights.

Check out the Wiki on it here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil%27s_Night

Not much happens around my neck of the woods. Some TP, few eggs. I was one of them punks when I was a youngster, and even we did very little mischief on Halloween. Too many potential witnesses walking about Wink

Long summer nights, however, were a very different story Very Happy
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Underwaterbob



Joined: 08 Jan 2005
Location: In Cognito

PostPosted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 10:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Egging and TPing are common on the east coast of Canada (Nova Scotia anyway). Also pumpkin smashing and burning and the occasional overzealous rock through a window. One year in my hometown there was this pickup driving around on Halloween night with a bunch of costumed hicks in the back throwing rotten apples at everyone. Small town boredom.
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grandpa



Joined: 19 Oct 2009

PostPosted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 11:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've seen eggs splattered around my neighborhoods back the day after Halloween.

It's hard to clean off Evil or Very Mad
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Jane



Joined: 01 Feb 2003

PostPosted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 5:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

On devil's night, the guys in rural Ontario roll burning bales of hay off the back of moving pick up trucks.
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soakitincider



Joined: 19 Oct 2009

PostPosted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 1:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Take a razor to candy bags and get free goods, mustard ballons. burn poop on porches, hit on woman (I tricked or treated til I was 19), generally be an ass. All good. Twisted Evil
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Tundra_Creature



Joined: 11 Jun 2009
Location: Canada

PostPosted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 4:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Jane wrote:
In my Canadian city, we have Devil's night, the night before Halloween. 'Tis the night where eggs and TP are flying.


Ah yes... we have that too. Mainly because the next day, all the kids (and teens) rather go trick or treating .
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Kikomom



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Location: them thar hills--Penna, USA--Zippy is my kid, the teacher in ROK. You can call me Kiko

PostPosted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 3:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

For a nostalgic taste of home, attracting local vermin ...

Rainn Wilson gets his vandal on -- on Al Yankovic
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