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A hundred years ago when I was a kid, Halloween wasn’t as acceptable, or should I say, as profitable as it is today! You didn’t find Halloween yard crap in the five & dime store then, only Casper the Ghost costumes or some Disney characters maybe. I liked the Goofy costume myself, can’t imagine why though, he was… well goofy!
Being Goofy back then wasn’t so bad, and come to think of it; being Goofy now days isn’t so bad either! Hahaha!
Oh wait… “Hu-Hyuck”!
Halloween has been around for about two thousand years and wasn’t always about being scared or scary. Halloween derives from a celebration at the end of the harvest season in Gaelic culture! The festival would always involve bonfires, not to burn witches or to roast small unruly children; the fires attracted insects to the area, which attracted bats to the area, which help keep the insect population down and out of their soup!
I’m not kidding either!
So this is where the BAT part of Halloween came about, and when that didn’t scare the kiddies into submissive behaving anymore, the vampire bat was introduced, and when that didn’t work anymore the concept of human vampires evolved along with stories of where the boundaries between the worlds of the living and the dead overlapped on Halloween and the deceased would come back to life and cause chaos like bringing sickness or damaging crops!
I hate it when they do that!
My point is that for about two thousand years we’ve been coming up with new ways to scare the crap out of people in order to bring about a well balanced and behaved society![/ezcol_1half]
Hmm… it doesn’t seem to be working yet!
It seems to me that what started out just being an end of the growing season getting drunk dancing around the fire gathering, turned into a getting drunk dancing around the fire let’s scare the unruly children into submission party, and after two thousand years has turned into a ‘Profit Whore War’!
Once the Profit Whores got the idea of making money off of Halloween, they took all the fun out of getting drunk while dancing around the fire telling spooky stories to the unruly children! All the unruly children want to do now is play video games that have more gory and hideous story lines than the parents could ever come up with!
This is unacceptable! Scaring unruly children is fun! Scaring Geezers is fun too though, and in some ways much easier to do! All it takes to scare a Geezer is to sneak into their room and say… ”BOO!” and it’s FREE!
“Hu-Hyuck”!
When it comes to scaring unruly children it’s going to cost you a hundred bucks or more getting them the newest hideously gory video game where they can chop heads off of zombies and watch the blood squirt!
It may be hard to compete against the Profit Whores latest games, but there is hope for us yet, just bring those leftover firecrackers with you when you go to sneak up behind kids and Geezers and say…”BOO”!
“Hu-Hyuck”!
~Snarp
www.snarpfarkle.com