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I think Halloween should be returned to its original Druidic intent, replete with human sacrifice etc. Put the " EEEEE!!!" back in Halloween.

(And put the X back in Xmas, too.)

MA: I agree!

Do you mean by putting the X back in Xmas that it should be in the past tense or that we should observe the true meaning more?

A good Sunday to you

Well - there is an idea! Putting the true meaning back into these things!

I guess the idea of human sacrifice would de-enthuse some participants...
Now! How would we choose the sacrifices?

If they hate cats. Seems thematic.

yes - of course - sacrifice the cat-haters!

Uh oh.....

Does that mean that we will have a burning pyre of rats and, oh my goodness, even puppy dogs?

Puppy dogs?! No!!

Wilso has a rat.....hope he doesn't see this!

Aw, Misti. Second only to Norman Rockwell's self-portrait, your current avatar is my favorite.

So go ahead and change so they can all discuss how roger finally lost his last marble.

I once "liberated" a rat from my psych. class. They were going to "excess" him at the end of the term, (you know what THAT means )
This rat was my partner. We had worked together on many experiments, and I was not going to allow him to be thrown on the trash heap of existence.

Anyhow, I stole into the psych lab with a shoebox, specially prepared for the occasion. I stealthily put him under my coat, and walked out, unobserved.

I brought him home, and had him as a pet for two years. He was the most adorable rat. I used to walk around the house with him draped around the back of my neck, his tail gracefully twined about the front.

Good for you, Phoenix.....poor little rat.

Awwwwwwwww Roger, you have such good taste!

NOOOOOOOOO - we are not sacrificing animal cat haters for a HUMAN sacrifice! Just the odd egregiously awful cat haters!

I ...sob ....TRIED to rescue my poor lab rat before he went to......wail .....BIOLOGY (he was a Norwegian hooded called - in those dim days of my extreme youth - Frodo) - but the executioner's tumbrils arrived a full hour early and I was too late to see anything but a forest of little whiskery faces and tails heading to their doom.

I am still scarred by the experience.

In fact, I refused to continue with psychology then because in second year we had to torment them with electricity! I couldn't believe it, and, of course, such meaningless torture is banned now.

Poor Frodo and all his little friends........ sigh.....

Sniff, sniff.....here, Deb.....sniff.....have a tissue.....sniff, sniff.....

Thank you Rae! You are very kind.

Actually, I was outraged enough by having to run the poor rats in Skinner boxes anyway. Really - what was supposed to be the point of having students mindlessly repeat experiments performed a million times by other students on poor, hungry rats? Sigh.

Rats be cute - and bright - and interesting! If only they would do something about those TAILS..........

Squirrels have taken care of the tail problem, and reap the benefits. (Soft and fluffy seems to go over better than naked and serpentine.)

Yes it does, Sozobe, you are quite right.

Sigh - perhaps that is my problem in life - I seem never really to have mastered cute and fluffy - I am more serpentine (at least in mind) although not naked generally.

Overall, more rat than squirrel.

Are you naked again, Deb bie?

Dammit!

How did you know!?

ehBeth- Ya mean nobody told Deb about the Able2Know "hidden camera"!