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The New Jack O'Lantern Controversy
The origins of Halloween go way back and can be found in the ancient Celtic Festival of Samhain. It is a festival to celebrate the end of the harvest.
The Gaelic culture believed that on October 31st the line
between living and dead dissolved. Obviously this creates problems,
more for the living than the dead. For the dead it would be little
more than a one day vacation.
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Costumes come in because the Celts would wear masks to fool the dead into believing that they were not human. Today we wear McCain, Palin, and Obama masks on Halloween to accomplish the same thing.
The placing of candles in carved out pumpkins began originally in Europe where they carved out turnips. They must grow pretty big turnips in Europe. The powerful turnip industry in the US is currently campaigning to reverse the trend back in the hopes that all of us will start taking our kids to the nearest turnip patch for our hay rides. Turnip industry insiders have told me that the slogans being considered are "got turnips" and "turnips rule".
As a side note did you know that if you say turnip multiple times over that the word starts to sound very odd.
Anyway, the term Jack O' Lantern goes back to the Irish legend of Stingy Jack. Stingy Jack was a greedy, hard-drinking gambler. He was also a sly man who managed to trick the devil. He talked the devil up a tree and while he was up there he carved a cross in the trunk thereby trapping him.
Well as you can imagine the devil was none too happy with this. He placed a curse on ole Stingy Jack which sentenced him to walking the earth with only the light of a candle inside a turnip to guide the way.
Hmmm.....interesting. Is it mere coincidence that a common nick name for John is Jack? Is it a mere coincidence that some believe that John McCain's heritage has been misrepresented as Scottish when it was likely Irish? Is it mere coincidence that after the last debate John McCain challenged Barack Obama to a tree climbing competition but only if Obama went first? Has anyone ever seen Stingy Jack and John McCain in the same room?
As described above Stingy Jack was greedy, hard-drinking and a gambler. So lets look at the facts. Is John McCain greedy? Well he and his wife certainly qualify as rich and he wants tax breaks for the rich. There could be a connection. Is John McCain a hard-drinker? Well I have not seen or found any evidence of it but he did marry the heiress to a wealthy beer distributorship. There might be a connection. Is he a gambler? Well he did choose Sarah Palin for his running mate, and regardless of your personal feelings for her this was seen by most to be a gamble. Another possible connection.
Spooky. Remember the Drudge Report, TMZ or Geraldo Rivera were not the first news sources to reveal this story it was coffeeandprozac.com. It looks like I just picked up the ball that they dropped.
In order to keep the tone of this column uplifting I have chosen to talk about ghouls, ghosts and goblins for the remainder of the week instead of the stock market and our failed economy.
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PUBLISHED 10/23/08
The Memory Of A Gold Fish
It has been suggested that an Elephant never forgets. I cannot verify this, I do not no many elephants. I do not know many facts to be true about elephants. On a recent trip to a zoo and the elephant exhibit a zoo representative did fill us in on the size of an elephants vagina. I will offer that to anyone on a need to know basis and I do not think anyone really needs to know.
for the rest of the article click here (memory of a gold fish, 3 second memory, three second memory)
PUBLISHED 10/21/08
It Is Not Easy Being Green
When I have paper towels I am happy. When I do not have paper towels I am a little bit shaky even nervous.
for the rest of the article click here (Al Gore, King of Green, paper towels, polar bears, going green)
PUBLISHED 10/17/08
Good Humor and Kind Words Spoken At Alfred E. Smith Dinner
If you watched the news stations yesterday you probably got a glimpse of the Alfred E Smith Memorial Dinner.
This dinner is held annually and during election years there are usually two keynote speakers which happen to be the two Presidential candidates.
for the rest of the article click here (Barack Obama, John McCain, Alfred E. Smith, Memorial Dinner, good humor, kind words)
PUBLISHED 10/14/08
Sometimes You Have To Eat The Rat
Sometimes doing something difficult can be the best thing. Everybody goes through difficult times. Many times we do not have a choice.
for the rest of the article click here (developing courage, developing integrity, developing self-confidence, building self-confidence)
PUBLISHED 10/10/08
Hefner Splits With One Of His Girlfriends
And now for something truly important. 82 year old Hugh Hefner has split with his 28 year old girlfriend Holly Madison.
for the rest of the article click here (Hugh Hefner, playboy, Holly Madison, Hugh and Holly Split, Split, The Girls Next Door)
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