"LITTLE HALLOWEEN REMINDER"

[Pumpkin_Man]

Hi Folks:

I just wanted to post a little reminder to you all that NEXT FRIDAY is Friday the 13th. A.k.a. "Little Halloween."

I am going to see a horror movie at my local theatre on my way home from work, and then I am going to put out one of my fake Jack O'lanterns and watch a 'haunted house' double feature. "The Amityville Horror" original and "The Haunting" original.

Mike

[Murfreesboro]

Yes, I intend to celebrate it somehow, too.

[zoltan hound dracula]

HAVE I MISSED SOMETHING,WHAT IS LITTLE HALLOWEEN

[Pumpkin_Man]

Hi Zolton:

I have a little tradition that I like to follow every time the 13th of the month falls on a Friday. Some of the good people of Halloween.com and the "Creature Features" yahoo news group decided to join in. This Friday is Friday the 13th, so I am going to observe "Little Halloween" by going out to a horror movie on my way home from work, and then when I get home, I am going to put out one of my plastic jack o'lanterns and watch two horror DVDs. I will be doing something simular on Friday April 13th and on Friday July 13th, as there will be 3 Friday the 13ths this year.

I hope you will join us. Oh, and I almost forgot. I am going to buy a bag of Reeses Peanutbutter Cups, too. After all, if it's "Little Halloween," we need some "Little Trick or Treat."

Mike

[zoltan hound dracula]

Hi Zolton:

I have a little tradition that I like to follow every time the 13th of the month falls on a Friday. Some of the good people of Halloween.com and the "Creature Features" yahoo news group decided to join in. This Friday is Friday the 13th, so I am going to observe "Little Halloween" by going out to a horror movie on my way home from work, and then when I get home, I am going to put out one of my plastic jack o'lanterns and watch two horror DVDs. I will be doing something simular on Friday April 13th and on Friday July 13th, as there will be 3 Friday the 13ths this year.

I hope you will join us. Oh, and I almost forgot. I am going to buy a bag of Reeses Peanutbutter Cups, too. After all, if it's "Little Halloween," we need some "Little Trick or Treat."

Mike

HI MIKE,LOVE TO JOIN IN ON THE PARTY,THANK YOU,MUCH APPRECIATED,

[Li H'Sen Chang]

I will watch Friday the 13th Part 2 and 3 for sure.

[Pumpkin_Man]

That's a good idea, Chang. In fact, since it is actualy Friday the 13th, I think I'll add the original "Friday the 13th" to my line up, after I get home from the movie theatre. Then to keep the happy FRiday the 13th tradition alive, I am going to screen Part 2 on Friday April 13th, and part 3 on Friday July 13th.

Mike

[Li H'Sen Chang]

My favorite part is when the guy in the wheelchair is killed with machete and falls down stairs.

[zoltan hound dracula]

HI,WELL I WILL STICK TO TRADITION AND USE TURNIPS AS MY LANTERN THATS THE TRADITION IN SCOTLAND,THEN WATCH HALLOWEEN THATS MY NIGHT PLANNED OUT

[Pumpkin_Man]

I don't think I have a really favorite part, but one part that really scared the bejeebers out of me was when the girl, after decapitating Jason's mother, was in a canoe on the lake just dazed by her night of terror, and Jason jumps up out of the water and grabs her. Then the credits start to roll. I knew then that there would be sequals to that film.

Zoltan, that sounds like a plan. Turnips were also used in Ireland, too, but here in America, pumpkins were allways used, and they're more practical because of their greater size. Besides, I already have a few plastic jack o'lanterns that are ready to go. I don't have to carve anything just for one night of "Little Halloween." I'll only be putting out one, but I will be watching 3 movies in addition to the one I see at the theatre, and I am going to have a "Trick or Trreat" of a Reeses Peanut Butter cups candy bar.

Mike

[zoltan hound dracula]

I don't think I have a really favorite part, but one part that really scared the bejeebers out of me was when the girl, after decapitating Jason's mother, was in a canoe on the lake just dazed by her night of terror, and Jason jumps up out of the water and grabs her. Then the credits start to roll. I knew then that there would be sequals to that film.

Zoltan, that sounds like a plan. Turnips were also used in Ireland, too, but here in America, pumpkins were allways used, and they're more practical because of their greater size. Besides, I already have a few plastic jack o'lanterns that are ready to go. I don't have to carve anything just for one night of "Little Halloween." I'll only be putting out one, but I will be watching 3 movies in addition to the one I see at the theatre, and I am going to have a "Trick or Trreat" of a Reeses Peanut Butter cups candy bar.

Mike

HI PUMPKIN MAN,YES YOUR PLAN SOUNDS COOL TOO,PUMPKINS OVER HERE ARE STARTING TO TAKE OVER FROM THE TURNIPS,BUT I STILL LIKE THE TURNIPS,THIS TIME OF YEAR PUMPKINS ARE HARD TO COME BY,ITS NORMALLY OCTOBER THEY ARE AVAILABLE IN MOST STORES,HAVE A GREAT EVENING ON FRIDAY

[Pumpkin_Man]

That's how it is here in the U S, too. Real pumpkins are only around in September through October. The only kind of real pumpkins you will find at this time of the year are the canned ones in the grocery stores that you use for baking pumpkin pies. So if you want to stick with your favorite tradition, by all means do so. I am also a staunch traditionalist when it comes to things like that, all though the observance of "Little Halloween" every time the 13th of the month falls on a Friday is not really a part of any seriously observed tradition by society in general. It's just something I started because of my late brother's "anoying" habbit of playing Christmas music when ever it snowed, no matter what time of the year it was. He did it all the time, but the two times I remember most are on Good Friday of 1970, when it snowed, and it was actualy Good Friday. Easter eggs in a basket on the table and he was playing the Mitch Miller Christmas record because there was snow on the ground. Another time, was when he was temperarily living with us in the arm pit New Lenox house. It was mid March, and not far away from easter that year, too. It snowed and we got a day off from school. He played a Christmas record, and it annoyed me. The following April, I noticed that the 13th of the month was on a Friday, so I decided to "impose" my favorite holiday. I decided to start observing what I called "Little" Halloween, and I put up a cardboard cut out of a pumpkin and a witch, and screened a couple of horror movies. He asked me what it was all about and I explained that it was Friday the 13th, so it was "Little Halloween."

His fav holiday was Christmas, mine is Halloween, so we both decided to indulge each other in our own peculiar enjoyments of those two days. I started observing "Little Halloween" everytime the 13trh was on a Friday, and he played Christmas music every time it snowed.

When I brought the topic oe "Little Halloween" on this forum, a number of you reacted to it in a very positive way, so I am happy that I turned others on to what I think is a fun tradition. Wouldn't it be a hoot if it caught on and it became a societal thing that everyone did?
Mike

[zoltan hound dracula]

That's how it is here in the U S, too. Real pumpkins are only around in September through October. The only kind of real pumpkins you will find at this time of the year are the canned ones in the grocery stores that you use for baking pumpkin pies. So if you want to stick with your favorite tradition, by all means do so. I am also a staunch traditionalist when it comes to things like that, all though the observance of "Little Halloween" every time the 13th of the month falls on a Friday is not really a part of any seriously observed tradition by society in general. It's just something I started because of my late brother's "anoying" habbit of playing Christmas music when ever it snowed, no matter what time of the year it was. He did it all the time, but the two times I remember most are on Good Friday of 1970, when it snowed, and it was actualy Good Friday. Easter eggs in a basket on the table and he was playing the Mitch Miller Christmas record because there was snow on the ground. Another time, was when he was temperarily living with us in the arm pit New Lenox house. It was mid March, and not far away from easter that year, too. It snowed and we got a day off from school. He played a Christmas record, and it annoyed me. The following April, I noticed that the 13th of the month was on a Friday, so I decided to "impose" my favorite holiday. I decided to start observing what I called "Little" Halloween, and I put up a cardboard cut out of a pumpkin and a witch, and screened a couple of horror movies. He asked me what it was all about and I explained that it was Friday the 13th, so it was "Little Halloween."

His fav holiday was Christmas, mine is Halloween, so we both decided to indulge each other in our own peculiar enjoyments of those two days. I started observing "Little Halloween" everytime the 13trh was on a Friday, and he played Christmas music every time it snowed.

When I brought the topic oe "Little Halloween" on this forum, a number of you reacted to it in a very positive way, so I am happy that I turned others on to what I think is a fun tradition. Wouldn't it be a hoot if it caught on and it became a societal thing that everyone did?
Mike

hi pumpkin man your idea is brilliant,yes ii will do the turnip lantern on the 3 little halloweens then on halloween i will do the pumpkin,halloween in the uk is getting bigger each year,thanks for the great idea of the little halloweens,looking foreward to the first one,something to look foreward to through out the year,thank you ,

[Pumpkin_Man]

Having the 13th of January falling on a Friday certainly takes the curse off the worst month of the Post Christmas Winter season. I also have a few interesting photo shoots lined up for later in the month, including the Chicago Motorcycle show (that's actualy Feb) but at least there's something to aleviate the bordeom.

Mike

[zoltan hound dracula]

hi mike,yes it breaks january up,worst month of the year