Halloween traditions in your neck of the woods

<p><img alt="" src="http://files.kickrunners.com/smilies/shock.gif" style="width:15px;height:15px;" title="">  churches are scary....'nuff said...</p>
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<p>around here, there's no 'celebrating' and/or even MENTIONING Halloween (or ANY holiday) in public schools anymore</p>
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<p>Political correctness makes life so boring. <img alt="" src="http://files.kickrunners.com/smilies/roll_eyes.gif" style="width:15px;height:15px;" title=""></p>
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<p>back in the olden days, we used to kick ASS with the costumes, decorations, and parties we'd have in our classrooms</p>
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<p>Now, all the kids just wait till they're old enough to go to UW-Madison so they can do this~~~~></p>
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<p><span style="color:#ff0000;">STATE STREET HALLOWEEN BASH FREAKFEST</span></p>
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<p><span style="color:#ff0000;"><a class="H-lightbox-open" href="http://www.kickrunners.com/content/type/61/id/60955/width/1000/height/800/flags/" target="_blank"><img alt="a722b871ece970290aa82ea181c4_grande.jpg" class="lightbox-enabled" data-id="14635" data-type="61" src="http://www.kickrunners.com/content/type/61/id/14635/width/468/height/351" style="; width: 468px; height: 351px"></a></span></p>
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<p><a class="H-lightbox-open" href="http://www.kickrunners.com/content/type/61/id/60957/width/1000/height/800/flags/" target="_blank"><img alt="mh-friday-guess102707a.jpg" class="lightbox-enabled" data-id="14636" data-type="61" src="http://www.kickrunners.com/content/type/61/id/14636/width/586/height/376" style="; width: 586px; height: 376px"></a></p>
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<p><a class="H-lightbox-open" href="http://www.kickrunners.com/content/type/61/id/60959/width/1000/height/800/flags/" target="_blank"><img alt="586NightlifeFreakfestCops.jpg" class="lightbox-enabled" data-id="14637" data-type="61" src="http://www.kickrunners.com/content/type/61/id/14637/width/586/height/356" style="; width: 586px; height: 356px"></a></p>
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<p>Note the realistic horse costumes! <img alt="" src="http://files.kickrunners.com/smilies/biggrin.gif" style="width:16px;height:16px;" title=""></p>

<p>my parents never once bought us a costume</p>
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<p>I LOVED the costumes we made using mom's and/or dad's clothes, jewelry, yada yada:</p>
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<p>pirate</p>
<p>gypsy</p>
<p>zorro</p>
<p>hobo</p>
<p>knight</p>
<p>princess</p>
<p>cowgirl</p>
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<p>rinse and repeat</p>
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<p>As an adult, I was:</p>
<p>a bag of stay puffed marshmallows during first pregnancy</p>
<p>a table for two</p>
<p>a rubik's cube</p>
<p>the wheel of fortune</p>
<p>mr. peanut</p>
<p>a chest of drawers</p>
<p>a christmas tree [with working lights]</p>
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<p>and on and on</p>
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<p>now, I'm just old 'n' boring....no more costumes since we don't have parties at school AND I'm too old to stay out late at the Freakfest <img alt="" src="http://files.kickrunners.com/smilies/sad2.gif" style="width:16px;height:16px;" title=""></p>