The word has power, and its wielder is Tina Fey. It's to hard to try and figure out where the, "Slut rule" came from, but maybe it's prevalence came about by it's naming. Who doesn't remember that little light going off when LiLo makes reference to it in, "Mean Girls." Halloween is now synonymous with letting it all hang out, and i mean all. I was in Wal-mart the other day and I wanted to slap this woman's hand away from the slutty candy corn costume and not so gently remind her that for her, those days are long since gone. Here, take the Gumby costume, go on...green's your color. We all know, after all, that the real sluts take the night off snickering to themselves, "Amateurs..."
Fun Facts!
The earliest known reference to ritual begging on Halloween in English speaking North America occurs in 1911, when a newspaper in Kingston, Ontario, near the border of upstate New York, reported that it was normal for the smaller children to go street guising on Halloween between 6 and 7 p.m., visiting shops and neighbors to be rewarded with nuts and candies for their rhymes and songs.
In the movie “Halloween” the mask worn by Michael Meyers is actually the mask of William Shatner painted white.
There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with “orange.”
Halloween 1948, members of the Madison Square Boys Club in New York City carried a parade banner that read "American Boys Don't Beg."
Picking up girls on Halloween is like finding Waldo in a world full of hacky whored-out Waldos.
Signs that your boyfriend/girlfriend/best friend might be a werewolf: a unibrow, hair palms, tattoos, and a long middle finger.
Halloween is one of the most commercially successful holidays, second only to Christmas with candy sales reaching the 2 billion dollar mark. Chocolate candy bars top the list as the most popular candy for trick-or-treaters with Snickers #1.
Christa Getz, the purchasing director for BuyCostumes.com said, "Probably over 90 to 95 percent of our female costumes have a flirty edge to them, adding that sexy costumes are so popular the company had to break its Sexy category into three subdivisions this year.
Bobbing for apples is thought to have originated from the roman harvest festival that honors Pamona, the goddess of fruit trees.
Tootsie Rolls were the first wrapped penny candy in America.
So you wanna be a real witch? Samhain (Halloween) is also considered a witch's New Year's Eve.
Pick 13 leaves, one for each full moon, and put them in a small box.
Chant, "Goddess, I thank you for your bounty.
As the wheel turns, walk with me from season to season."
Place the box under your bed for love and prosperity for the coming year.
(No Altar needed, but this one's just pretty)
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