Althouse: At the Tumbling Pumpkin Café...

October 31, 2015

At the Tumbling Pumpkin Café...

... roll out your random ramblings.

17 comments:

Will Cate said...: Don't wear a costume -- it's probably going to offend someone. Pumpkins cause global warming. Candy rots your teeth.

Tell me again why we do all this?; 10/31/15, 3:44 PM
richard mcenroe said...: The WI Assembly Republicans have unanimously endorsed Marco Rubio. Reince Priebus has now officially thrown Jeb under the bus.; 10/31/15, 3:52 PM
Tank said...: Rutgers took an ass kicking today.

Revenge for last year, I guess; 10/31/15, 4:30 PM
Anonymous said...: Is that a blue pumpkin? Blue pumpkin is a "thing" this year that ought to attract an Althousian post, so we can all enjoy bitching about food-nazi SWPL moms on this fine gloomy Halloween afternoon.; 10/31/15, 4:46 PM
campy said...: "Rutgers took an ass kicking today."

Condolences. My alma mater took her 5th straight loss. With (a virtually certain) 3 more coming in the next 3 weeks.; 10/31/15, 5:05 PM
rhhardin said...: I gave out candy for 25 years, until in 2001 nobody came.

Leftover candy had always been a problem -- the record was 80 bars left over. So I just stopped. The groups now are very young and very few, in daytime for godssake, with parents.

All the people who used to participate have also stopped, and the universal porch light symbol is part of the official tradition. No need to darken the house and hide in the back room, as it used to be when I was a kid.

People who have or want kids are the participants now.

Also when the official night is has never been clear. It keeps changing. You never know in advance. It was always just October 31 when I was a kid.; 10/31/15, 5:08 PM
Hagar said...: The joy police indeed has about killed Halloween.

But the nearest neighbors now have walking children, so I bought a little candy, since I think they will probably go around to each other and me.; 10/31/15, 5:25 PM
rhhardin said...: Trust no atomic clock tomorrow.

About a half dozen of mine will not change themselves tonight, and of those that do, about half will change themselves back at 7pm tomorrow night.

Any automatic clock may be off by an hour at any time.

The ones you set yourself will be right.; 10/31/15, 5:48 PM
Big Mike said...: Quarter to eight Eastern Daylight Time, and I think we've had the last trick or treaters. Lots more this year than in previous years. We bought our normal number of bags of candy, but I'm down to one small pack of m&m candies and a handful of bite-sized Hershey bars. I chalk it up to a number of young families moving into the neighborhood, plus lots of kids coming from other neighborhoods.; 10/31/15, 6:49 PM
Edmund said...: I see you have a teal pumpkin to show you have "non-allergenic" treats.; 10/31/15, 6:51 PM
Michael K said...: "The joy police indeed has about killed Halloween."

Maybe but I think Halloween has largely replaced Christmas as a big winter holiday. Interesting that it has.; 10/31/15, 7:22 PM
Big Mike said...: 9:00 EDT and we were out of candy 45 minutes ago, but there's still a trickle of kids coming. We give out dollar bills now. Most kids we've had in years.; 10/31/15, 8:05 PM
Gahrie said...: Just about time for me to start handing out candy over here....6:12 and it's not quite dark yet.; 10/31/15, 8:12 PM
Hagar said...: The MSM talks about how "biased" the questions were at the debate the other night.
But the bias is expected. The problem is that it was so juvenile and amateurish. If the debating was supposed to be about economic policies, does not CNBC have anybody at all with some familiarity with the subject, even if it is all from the left?; 10/31/15, 8:19 PM
Big Mike said...: @Hagar, the proper response to the joy police is the one-fingered salute. There are some people who give offence the way they take offence over nearly everything that gives anybody pleasure. And the proper response to someone deliberately giving offence is to dish it right back.; 10/31/15, 8:58 PM
William said...: There's a sprinkling of witches, but the overwhelming majority of little girls prefer to be princesses. I did see one zombie Princess, however. That seems a cool way of paying your proper respect to the holiday and dressing up in a cool outfit. I think zombie princesses will be the next big thing.; 10/31/15, 11:37 PM
rhhardin said...: Leftover candy wasn't such a problem when there were still Planters Jumbo Blocks, which I'd eat myself over the following weeks.

Nowadays there are always a few Lindt 90% Cocoa bars in the cabinet but I doubt the kiddies would like them.

Probably handing out money would be the way to go. Rolls of pennies, perhaps. Of course they'd be a choking hazard today. We used to get penny handfuls as kids without any warnings.; 11/1/15, 5:26 AM