Happy Halloween

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Happy Halloween, or as it was once known All Hallows Eve. What once served as a spooky New Years Eve tradition for the ancient Celts (which they called Samhain and no not the band this time but what's Halloween without Danzig eh?) was ultimately appropriated by Pope Gregory IV in 840 AD to serve as the daylong vigil preceding the Feast of All Saints. Even so, the Christians preserved the pagan festival's spooky trappings anyway, like they did so many other times with so many other Pagan festivals . . . I mean it makes sense to me, if people are already partying on one day and you want them to join your cause why change the date? Would only lead to confusion and this way you could have people celebrating your holy days without their even knowing. Now that's good management.

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But, hey who gives a shit? I mean you still go out get free candy and get to see all sorts of ladies in all sorts of sexy costumes, i.e. the sexy witch, the sexy devil, the sexy pirate, the sexy harem girl, the sexy school girl, the sexy nurse, to quote the King of Siam et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. There's just something about Halloween that's a license for woman to dress all slutty like. It's awesome.

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But just to help you out the good folks at Cracked have compiled another Halloween costume list, this time it's to let you know the top 20 costumes that will earn you a Halloween beat down.

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Now that you're officially scared witless let's get on with the show.

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This is a great Midas TV commercial featuring the Canadian police chase, true hilarity. This Futureshop commercial with the CFL tie in is also a current favourite of mine. I laugh every time I see and they play it a lot during the football games.

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Now here's a bit of news that's going to blow your mind - Rob Zombie has an animated movie in the works called The Haunted World of El Superbeasto starring a luchador named El Superbeasto. I don't know about you but I can't wait to see this one, I think that

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Rob Zombie + animation + Lucha Libre = epic win

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Just go take a look over at the official movie website (unfortunately a lot of it is still in the works) for yourself if you don't believe me. You can check out the IMDB page here if you like.

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It's not animated, but it's great news for people who travel and don't like dehydration and/or their mouths tasting like a monkey shit in them after 12 hours on an airplane; according to this article the TSA is likely to ease up on carry on restrictions for liquids on airplanes. This will likely ripple throughout the airline industry as it was the American TSA that basically set the standard for limiting liquids on the plane for fear of one of the passengers pulling a MacGyver and mixing up some toothpaste, hair gel and coca cola to make a bomb that'd drop the plane right out of the sky onto an orphanage with an idling bus full of nuns outside of it.

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They overlooked one thing though - MacGyver is fucked without his Swiss Army Knife and even before the new security measures you couldn't, well weren't supposed to, be bringing knives on the plane. See so everyone was safe . . . that being said I once inadvertently flew through the Winnipeg, Vancouver, Honolulu and Sydney airports with a money clip with a knife blade in it in my pocket. So who knows. I couldn't bring anything as potentially dangerous as my bottle of water on board though. Feel safer?

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And I think I'll sign off with this nifty little commercial to let us all in how they used to sell airline tickets. I'm thinking the travelling and/or swinging business was the target audience for this one.

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Have a safe and happy Halloween, and take advantage of it as tonight is the only night where parents actually tell their kids to go out and take candy from strangers.