Halloween

Best Pumpkin Carvings ~ Ray Villafane’s gourdgeous carvings

What do you get when you drop a pumpkin?

 
Squash

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Q: How did the ghost patch his sheet?

A: With a pumpkin patch.

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What do you get if you divide the circumference of a pumpkin by its diameter?

Pumpkin pi. 

Rick Perry’s Magic Flat Tax Will Solve America’s Problems

Rick Perry is not prepared to be President of the United States.

However, he is an ANGEL!!!!!

“I did not leak the terrible stuff about Caine.”

Rick Perry is hitting back at Herman Cain, insisting he had nothing to do with leaked information about sexual harassment allegations against his Republican presidential rival. Even though the news will help Perry’s campaign ___ enormously.

He shot to the top of Republican voter polls when he launched his campaign two months ago but has fallen back after shaky debate performances and a series of distractions.

He seemed to get caught up in yet another distraction on Tuesday when he brought up the largely discredited issue of whether Obama was actually born in the United States, a constitutional requirement to being president.

He has a Magic Flat Tax Plan that will solve all of America’s problems.

What’s really in Tricky Ricky Perry’s Flat Tax Brew????

Halloween Fun Facts

A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.

~Erma Bombeck

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Historical Happenings

• The celebration of Halloween started in the United States as an autumn harvest festival. In pioneer days, some Americans celebrated Halloween with com-popping parties, taffy pulls and hayrides.

• In the late nineteenth century, with the large influx of Irish immigrants into the U.S., Halloween became associated with ghosts, goblins and witches.

• Jack-o-lanterns are an Irish tradition. In Ireland, oversized rutabagas, turnips and potatoes were hollowed-out, carved into faces and illuminated with candles to be used as lanterns during Halloween celebrations.

• The word “witch” comes from the Old Saxon word “wica”, meaning “wise one.” The earliest witches were respected dealers in charms and medicinal herbs and tellers of fortunes.

• The pumpkin originated in Mexico about 9,000 years ago. It is one of America’s oldest known vegetables. Pumpkins generally weigh from 15-to-30 pounds, although some weigh as much as 200 pounds. The majority of pumpkins are orange, but they also can be white or yellow. They are rich in vitamin A, beta-carotene and potassium, and their seeds provide protein and iron.

• According to legend, the jack-o’-lantern began with a fellow named Jack, who was too stingy to be allowed into Heaven and too mischievous to join the Devil in hell. As consolation, the Devil threw Jack a lighted coal, which Jack placed inside a turnip he was eating. It is said that Jack continues to use the coal to light his path as he searches for a final resting place.

Trick-or-Treat Tidbits

Adults

• Four-in-ten (41%) adults admit that they sneak sweets from their own candy bowl.

• On Halloween night, the majority (52%) of those providing treats to costumed kiddies will be passing out chocolate, while three?in?ten will drop hard candy or lollipops into the sacks.

• 62% of adults will be handing out candy because “it’s a personal favorite” or it’s a household tradition (55%)

• 43% of grown-up celebrants cite costumes as one of the most indispensable parts of the holiday.

• About 26% of households will include full-size candy (chocolate and non-chocolate) in their Halloween activities.

• 90% of parents admit to sneaking goodies from their kids’ Halloween trick-or-treat bags.

• Parents favorite treats to sneak from their kids’ trick-or-treat bags are snack-size chocolate bars (70 percent sneak these), candy-coated chocolate pieces (40 percent), caramels (37 percent) and gum (26 percent).

• Parents least favorite goodie to take from their kids’ trick-or-treat bags is licorice (18 percent).

Kids

• 30% of kids report that they SORT their candy first when returning home with trick-or-treat loot, others:

  • Savor it (20%)

  • Share it (16%)

  • Stash it (14%)

  • Swap it (7%)

• Kids say they prefer homes that give: anything made with chocolate (68%) followed by lollipops (9%), gummy candy (7%) and bubble gum or chewing gum (7%)

• More than 93% of children go trick-or-treating each year.

• Kids tell us that their favorite treats to receive when trick-or-treating are candy and gum. Eighty-four percent of kids said candy and gum are their favorites over other options like baked goods or small toys.

  

  Great pumpkin Carving Patterns and templates at:

  http://www.history.com/topics/halloween/interactives/pumpkin-carving-patterns

There’s an App for Everything, Even Halloween

http://www.forbes.com/2010/10/21/apple-itunes-android-technology-halloween.html

Pooh’s Halloween: Kids will love this Halloween app that features their favorite cuddly bear. Includes cute Halloween games, a Pooh screensaver and homepage icons featuring your favorite Pooh characters. ($1, Android)

Halloween Scream Machine: This super-creepy, multifunction sound app is guaranteed to spook your friends. Use preloaded screams or record your own scary sounds to create the perfect eerie atmosphere for your Halloween party. ($1, iTunes)

Crazy Pumpkin: A few years ago this app was the most downloaded Halloween app in the iTunes store. It may not seem like much at first, but it is pretty darned addicting to play. Use this app to create more than 30,000 different carved pumpkin faces that are easily customizable and can be changed with the swipe of your finger. (Free, iTunes)

Halloween – Something is creeping up on you!

If you get an eerie feeling
that something is creeping up on you….

Don’t Worry…
It is probably just your underwear!

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Cutest Halloween Kittens

Pumpkin Carving 101~ Great jack-o’-lanterns

As you might have noticed, I’m really into the Halloween spirit.

Check out these great jack-o’-lanterns.

Just Spooktacular!

My Favourite!

The Vampire Bat and Fresh Blood

A vampire bat came flapping in from the night covered in fresh blood

and parked himself on the roof of the cave to get some sleep.

Pretty soon all the other bats smelled the blood and began hassling

him about where he got it.

He told them to knock it off and let him get some sleep

but they persisted until finally he gave in.

“OK, follow me,” he said and flew out of the cave with hundreds of

bats behind him.

Down through a valley they went, across a river and into a forest

full of trees.

Finally he slowed down and all the other bats excitedly milled around

him.

“Now, do you see that tree over there?” he asked.

“Yes, yes, yes!” the bats all screamed in a frenzy.

“Good,” said the first bat, “Because I DIDN’T!”

Dressing up your Dog for Halloween – Bad Idea?

Alexandra Horowitz, a dog expert who teaches psychology, animal behavior and canid cognition at Barnard College in New York, says that while dressing up the dog for Halloween may delight the owner, the dog most likely is not amused.

Fastfood Doggies

But she's so cute!

How does a dog say Boo?

Holy Spiderdog!

Happy Halloween – Free Animations

Halloween math…

Q: Wadaya get when you take the circumference of your jack-o-lantern and divide it by its diameter?

A: Pumpkin pi