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My favorite day of the year!  The pumpkins are carved, the candy's in the cauldron, broom is at the ready.  After the goblins leave tonight, I'll be watching Frankenstein with De Niro as the monster.  What's on your video schedule? 

And since we're all (a-hem) serious poets here, does anyone remember:

"Trick or treat, smell my feet.
Gimme sumthin' good to eat!"

 

"It is with a strange malice / That I distort the world." 
 -- from The Weeping Burgher by Wallace Stevens

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Candy is in the frankenstein bowl.  Don't have much in the way of decorations, but some day will.  The neighbors are having a cookout-party and I started them on their way early this afternoon by taking over some fresh-out-of-the-oven so-hot-they-burn-your-fingers dinner rolls and a bottle of Evil Wine.  Reminded them that Halloween just isn't Halloween without a bit of evil.  So we sat down at 3:00 with glasses of wine and hot dinner rolls while they continued getting ready for their party, and I am supposed to go over later just for a bit.  I may.

I don't think there will be many trick-or-treaters.  Just too damp and icky out today.

Of course I remember that little rhyme.  We used it a lot :-)

Margo

"And since we're all (a-hem) serious poets here, does anyone remember:

'Trick or treat, smell my feet.
Gimme sumthin' good to eat!'"

I don't have to remember - a few days ago at Safeway (supermarket) a cashier was teaching it to a few little kids who had come shopping with their mother - but in proper English, the way most of the kids shout it. The Canadian version is longer:

Trick or treat, smell my feet,
Give me something good to eat!
Not too big, not too small,
Just the size of Montreal!

Last night was pretty chilly, so most of the kids just shouted "Trick or Treat" or "Halloween Apples!"

We only got about 25 kids; it was cold and more kids are going to parties, so only a few come out trick-or-treating before or after.

There have been lots of horror movies on TV this week. I watched several, but my favourites were: Friday night, I watched "Young Frankenstein" (with the memorable scene where Gene Wilder and Peter Boyle sing and dance "Putting on the ritz"), and last night I watched "The Rocky Horror Picture Show".

Roberta

More fun to say sans proper English.  <wink>  Young Frankenstein is a classic -- as are all Mel Brooks movies.  Yes, that includes High Anxiety.  Our Zeiterion Theater ran RHPS last night at midnight.  I couldn't talk anybody into going; my kids were sick of it by the time they graduated high school and refuse to be "dragged" to one more viewing.

 

"It is with a strange malice / That I distort the world." 
 -- from The Weeping Burgher by Wallace Stevens

Profile Site of Patricia Gomes