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Hope you folks have a happy, and safe, Halloween. I don't know about everywhere else, but around here the kids, and many adults, still get into Halloween. Trick-or-treating is still popular, though the practice is slowly dying out.
 
I agree, and thank you Steven. I received my Halloween treat in the form of a HI Kothimoda Khukuri today. Uncle Bill wasn't kidding when he said the white buffalo horn handle is excellent. The handle material definitely remind me of some of the better fossil ivory pieces. The scabbard is pretty decent, but doesn't have as much silver content as previous kothimodas and there is a bit of a dent at the mouth of the scabbard which I attribute to the rigors of shipping.

This is one knife that I will enjoy.

Harry
 
I too lament the demise of many traditions related to Halloween that made it a fun, non-threatening holiday for all ages. It was truly one of the consummate joys of an American childhood.
 
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Thanks Steven, hope your was good as well.
I stay hid so as to not Really Scare the little ghosts and goblins that come to our door.
Halloween is still pretty much alive and well in Tulsa. There have been more emphasis on parties and scare houses for the last years, but we always have a good crop of Trick or Treaters.
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Halloween and Nevada Day ( date it became a state ) both fall on the 31st, so in our area we celebrate Halloween the Friday before, state employees get the day off, and then Saturday have the Nevada Day Parade in Carson City.

We had about the usual number of trick or treaters this last Friday, 185.
 
185 trick-or-treaters! Rusty, that's a crowd. I remember the first Halloween after we'd moved to an area with lots of kids: we thought we had a ton of candy ready, but by maybe 8 o'clock we were running low and the hordes were still just streaming in so I drove to the Safeway to resupply. What an eye opener.The vast aisles of candy were decimated. Only a couple sad little stomped on bags left.
Halloween's still big around here. We live off the beaten path, tho, so our kids trick-or-treat with friends in town where the houses are close together for maximum yield. Still a favorite holiday of mine; I generally take the day off work to prepare mentally.
 
I live on Main Street in a smallish town in South Carolina and we get 500-600 Trick-or-Treaters every year. We ran out of candy this year about 7:30pm, so we just turned the porch lights out and went back inside.

Randy
 
I remember tipping a couple outhouses Uncle. But that was more the typical shoreside-stuck sailor antics than it was Halloween tricks.
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> We didn't have a single trick or treater here at the Cantina.

Why am I not surprised? Considering the tonnage of metal around, the local PARENTS are surely scared witless already!
 
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Hehhehehehe.(VBESEG)
Yeah, I done my share of that.
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However the most exciteing Halloween was in the town of Turley Oklahoma where I finished growing up.
There was a bunch of us wild a**ed boys that went to turn over an outhouse that belonged to an old lady that no one liked. We were giggleing and whispering about,"wouldn't it be funny if she was in the outhouse?" Well she was!!!

If the old lady had of said one word she would have been safe, but we never figured out if she was asleep or what, but when we turned the outhouse over we heard this "Ommpffooop". We ran like hell, but we had a problem!!! We had pushed it over on its door and she couldn't get out. We were lucky that it went over real easy. It took some expertise to do it that way, but was necessary if you didnt want to get a load of rock salt in yer butts, 'cause some people were waiting on you!!
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We absolutely knew that we had to go turn it where she could at least get out, so we very quietly sneaked back to the outhouse and very gently turned it on its side And Then We RAN Like HELL!!!!!

Now the really Funny part about this story is that one of our buds we called, "Toad" Ran The Wrong Way!!!!
Yep!! Toad ran right into the open hole in his excitement to "get away." Fortunateley he was going fast enough that he only went into the mess up to his mid thigh's.
STINK!!!! Now that boy stunk to High Heaven!!!
We took some back ways up to another friends house, Turley had a lot of open and wooded places back then, and hosed Toad off real good, then got Mrs."B" to wash Toad's clothes while he took a shower. We told her that he fell into the pond.
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We needed our butt's busted Good for some of the stunts we pulled when we was kids. The thing back then though was people knew kids would be kids and knew that their own kids was probably involved in turning their own outhouse over.
Now days people would be screaming lawsuits and all kinds of punishment and you ain't allowed to bust your kids butt!!!

If we could have them days back I wouldn't mind having my outhouse turned over. There was Absolutely No Way that any of us kids Ever thought about taking our guns to school to kill people we didn't like. That was settled behind some favored building in town by fists and then usually you became best friends. And the grown-ups looked the other way when things like that happened usually, but it seemed like there was always one around if things got to rough, and that didn't mean they necessarily stopped it when the bleeding started.
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And we didn't have all the other problems that kids these days have.
I am so glad that mine are grown and gone.
I have a Lot of Admiration for people who raise good kids in todays enviroment. I dayumed sure Know It Ain't Easy!!!

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Yvsa, that is probably one of the funniest stories I have ever read in my life!
Matthew
 
Somebody ought to start a thread on " Why are you greatful for the Statue of Limitations? "
 
Sad to say,we didn't have many kids come around. It's certainly understandable because a few years back on Halloween a young man was shot and killed by a neighbor who misunderstood the kid's intention. You may have heard about the case -- it made the national news because the victim was a Japanese foreign-exchange student and didn't understand English very well. It was tragic all the way around -- the loss of the child, by all accounts an exceptional young man, and the devastation to the shooter and his family, who ended up losing everything. The shooter, normally a good family man, was found innocent in criminal court, but found guilty in civil court. The shooter obviously used poor judgment, but he and his wife had been the victims of some on-going harrassment that had left his nerves frayed. Not that excuses him in any way, but, as I said, it was a tragedy all the way around.
 
I think I saw on TV a very similar incident which occured in LA. An actor with a toy gun got shot numerous times by LA police who mistook the gun for the real thing. And, it was a Halloween party as I recall.

Because of my Louisiana ties I do remember that incident, Steven, and a tragedy it was.

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[This message has been edited by Bill Martino (edited 11-01-2000).]
 
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Bro, I believe it!!!! Seems we have had several similar experiences.
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Another year when my uncle Bud, the one that had spent time in the Big House for murder, a lot of my family were outlaws, kept his dynamite in the outhouse I swiped 1/2 a stick.
Now I didn't know anything about dynamite so I didn't know Just How Unstable this stuff was with the nitro Sweating out of It!!!
I put on of those old time very powerful Cherry Bombs in it for a detonator and also used some of the
fuse I swiped when I got the dynamite. I figured I had about a 3 minute fuse, listening to my uncle talk and all.
We were set to blow up the neighborhood drugstore's outhouse that couldn't be turned over because of the heavy cement floor and foundation it had to make it "turnover proof."

When we got there the dayumed outhouse was GONE!!!!
Some of the Northside Turley Boy's had "borrowed" a tow truck from the local towing place and had moved the outhouse to the middle of the 4 lane street that ran through town about six blocks down.
I discovered many years later just how dangerous a stunt I had pulled And Indeed it would have exploded.

That's why I say I have been "protected" over the years by the Great Mystery and the Grandfathers.
I am grateful.


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>>>>---¥vsa---->®

"I would rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy."

........unknown, to me anyway........

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Bro, I think we are both lucky to be here. Believe it or not when some of the mines were on strike around Cherokee years ago a couple of buddies and myself decided to experiment with some dynamite taken from a mine but we went top drawer and took some blasting caps, too. End result, one of the kids blew himself about five feet in the air but suffered no serious injuries. That cured us.

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