Twick or tweeeeeeeeeat!!

[Bruce Rioja]

It's seem's to have replaced the 'penny for the guy's':

Well that may be the case down amongst the air-conditioned, bright canteens of Berkshire, Sluffy, but I can assure you that round our way 'trick or treating' is an as-well-as means of begging and not an instead-of to 'Penny for the Guy' by the little nice people.
I usually rebuke them accordingly for a complete lack of effort on their part though, and I actively encourage you all to do likewise:
"A Guy? A Guy? You call that a fecking Guy do you, you slothful miscreant? You've filled a Tesco bag with newspaper, drawn a smiley face on a burst football, plonked it atop and you're telling me that I should be fiscally rewarding you for your endeavours, you little shit? Stand aside" (cuffs cheeky, begging scrote around lug with back of hand and moves along).

See, easily dealt with.

Oh, and another thing. When exactly was the turnip lantern replaced by a pumpkin ffs? Another Americanism.

[Raven]

Being in studentland Halloween is very fun....lot's of 18 year old lasses dressed in skimpy devil/cowgirl costumes

Lucky bast

[warthog]

I first noticed trick or treating in the early nineties. We've still got penny for the guy up here in the frozen north, although one kid who approached me last year, had decided to forego the process of actually making one.

"Penny for the guy?"
"Where's your guy?"
"Er, it's round the corner."

Yeah, right.

[Soldier_Of_The_White_Army]

I first noticed trick or treating in the early nineties. We've still got penny for the guy up here in the frozen north, although one kid who approached me last year, had decided to forego the process of actually making one.

"Penny for the guy?"
"Where's your guy?"
"Er, it's round the corner."

Yeah, right.

Don't you mean

"Penny for the guy?"
"Where's your guy?"
"Shut up and stand still, your ruining everything!!"

[warthog]

I first noticed trick or treating in the early nineties. We've still got penny for the guy up here in the frozen north, although one kid who approached me last year, had decided to forego the process of actually making one.

"Penny for the guy?"
"Where's your guy?"
"Er, it's round the corner."

Yeah, right.

Don't you mean

"Penny for the guy?"
"Where's your guy?"
"Shut up and stand still, your ruining everything!!"

Tried that, with a 50/50 split on the money. People said the guy wasn't realistic enough.

[David Lee's Hair]

I first noticed trick or treating in the early nineties. We've still got penny for the guy up here in the frozen north, although one kid who approached me last year, had decided to forego the process of actually making one.

"Penny for the guy?"
"Where's your guy?"
"Er, it's round the corner."

Yeah, right.

Had a similar one walkng from the office to Salford Crescent a couple of years back - under the subway at the end of the M602 in fact.

The "Guy" was a pillow with a football on the top - tit was still black and white, and they hadn't even bothered to draw a face on it, otherwise I'd have been tempted to maybe give them 10p or something.

On my refusal - after rather foolishly pointing out it was in fact a shit guy, not worth the time of my life wasting away as I was looking at it! They stated to throw fireworks at me, which was not fun!

[TANGODANCER]

Could take em at their word: Penny for the guy mister?" Sure, hand em a penny. Cheap enough.

[Montreal Wanderer]

It's seem's to have replaced the 'penny for the guy's':

Oh, and another thing. When exactly was the turnip lantern replaced by a pumpkin ffs? Another Americanism.

Thanks, Sluffy.

Let me get this right, Bruce. You imported trick or treat from America but since the right ingrdients weren't found in the local farmer's field, you used to carve turnips instead? Oh, my aching sides! We use a pumpkin because it's hollow, btw.

[TANGODANCER]

It's seem's to have replaced the 'penny for the guy's':

Oh, and another thing. When exactly was the turnip lantern replaced by a pumpkin ffs? Another Americanism.

Thanks, Sluffy.

Let me get this right, Bruce. You imported trick or treat from America but since the right ingrdients weren't found in the local farmer's field, you used to carve turnips instead? Oh, my aching sides! We use a pumpkin because it's hollow, btw.

Er, excuse me for mentioning this Monty, amigo:, "yellow bi-day"? Should that not be bidet?

[communistworkethic]

It's seem's to have replaced the 'penny for the guy's':

Oh, and another thing. When exactly was the turnip lantern replaced by a pumpkin ffs? Another Americanism.

Thanks, Sluffy.

Let me get this right, Bruce. You imported trick or treat from America but since the right ingrdients weren't found in the local farmer's field, you used to carve turnips instead? Oh, my aching sides! We use a pumpkin because it's hollow, btw.

want to name any hollow vegetables that would have been available in the UK????

[Montreal Wanderer]

Er, excuse me for mentioning this Monty, amigo:, "yellow bi-day"? Should that not be bidet?

Well, that would be how I might spell it, but I was merely quoting Plodder.

[TANGODANCER]

want to name any hollow vegetables that would have been available in the UK????

Robbie Savage, Joey Barton, Paul Dickov, Andy Todd???

[Bruce Rioja]

Let me get this right, Bruce. You imported trick or treat from America but since the right ingrdients weren't found in the local farmer's field, you used to carve turnips instead?

No, no, Monty. Be my guest, please do get it right, or at least try harder. Laugh your silly head off. Youngsters in Britain have carved lanterns out of turnips to accompany their traditional Halloween costumes (pointed hat, black cape and broom) for years. Having no shame whatsoever and allowing your children to knock on doors begging and hoping to turn it into a profitable excercise is something that came from America. Well, I suppose it came from somewhere else originally but at least if it did then they never really tried to hide it behind a silly cheap mask, unlike you and your nationality. Pillock.

[Little Green Man]

No, no, Monty. Be my guest, please do get it right, or at least try harder. Laugh your silly head off. Youngsters in Britain have carved lanterns out of turnips to accompany their traditional Halloween costumes for years.

Turnip lanterns are the biz! The smell you would get from the candle burning the lantern's lid/inner skull is (or was) a memorable part of your childhood. (And we'd parcel up the internal swedey scoopings and send them up here to Scotland in exchange for oil.) Of course, you can now get 15 pumpkin jack-o-lanterns for a quid from Lidl, so what do I know?

[communistworkethic]

Let me get this right, Bruce. You imported trick or treat from America but since the right ingrdients weren't found in the local farmer's field, you used to carve turnips instead?

No, no, Monty. Be my guest, please do get it right, or at least try harder. Laugh your silly head off. Youngsters in Britain have carved lanterns out of turnips to accompany their traditional Halloween costumes (pointed hat, black cape and broom) for years. Having no shame whatsoever and allowing your children to knock on doors begging and hoping to turn it into a profitable excercise is something that came from America. Well, I suppose it came from somewhere else originally but at least if it did then they never really tried to hide it behind a silly cheap mask, unlike you and your nationality. Pillock.

Hmmm, had someone been at the shiraz last night?

[thebish]

Let me get this right, Bruce. You imported trick or treat from America but since the right ingrdients weren't found in the local farmer's field, you used to carve turnips instead?

No, no, Monty. Be my guest, please do get it right, or at least try harder. Laugh your silly head off. Youngsters in Britain have carved lanterns out of turnips to accompany their traditional Halloween costumes (pointed hat, black cape and broom) for years. Having no shame whatsoever and allowing your children to knock on doors begging and hoping to turn it into a profitable excercise is something that came from America. Well, I suppose it came from somewhere else originally but at least if it did then they never really tried to hide it behind a silly cheap mask, unlike you and your nationality. Pillock.

err... has Montreal moved since I last flew there???

[Bruce Rioja]

I didn't suggest that it had.

[Montreal Wanderer]

I didn't wish to offend anyone. I had no idea that Trick or Treat had crossed the Atlantic. I certainly didn't know kids carved out turnips for Jack o'lanterns and for some reason that struck me as both funny and very hard work. As for the concept of dressing up and going to the neighbours to get candy - well, it is something the kids love and look forward to. If you don't approve - leave your light out and the turnips alone - it's only one night of the year.

I suspect it was a tradition that went to the Americas from England and was forgotten. In parts of Somerset they used to carve lanterns out of mangelwurzels on October 31, Punkie Night. In America they found an easier vegetable to carve. Now it has been reimported, doubtless courtesy of Hollywood and the global village.

As I mentioned, sorry to upset the tenderer feelings.

[Gertie]

Well Monty, on Friday I went to a Halloween party at my friend Sarah's house, only she couldn't find any pumpkins to buy so we carved lanterns out of Honeydew Melons. Much fun was had by all, and good work on the lateral thinking point. I think I've got a photo of my friends and our melons somewhere.

[communistworkethic]

I think I've got a photo of my friends and our melons somewhere.

WAHEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!