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Hope this works! I got your email Butch but yahell has been bouncing all over

the place...

Gloria

 

Butch Owen <butchbsi wrote:

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[Guest guest]

Hello!

We are roasting pumpkin seeds as our Halloween treat.

Hugs,

Jan S

sweetprairie

[Guest guest]

Hi y'all,

 

I sent a post in response to a question by Sharon .. that post was sent

7 hours and 21 + minutes ago. It didn't bounce .. and it didn't show up

on the list.

 

Can I post? We will see .. if this one doesn't show up then you'll not

know. ;-) Y'all keep smiling. :-) Butch http://www.AV-AT.com

 

 

It's Halloween... Except in France

 

POSTED: 1438 GMT (2238 HKT), October 31, 2006

 

 

PARIS, France (Reuters) -- Halloween, ancient Celtic festival or U.S.

marketing gimmick according to your point of view, is dying in France

after a short-lived breakthrough, French media reported on Tuesday.

 

" Halloween pretty much buried, " the daily le Monde reported, quoting

Benoit Pousset, head of costume company Cesar, who attributed the

festival's demise in France to " a cultural reaction linked to the rise

of anti-Americanism " .

 

" Our Halloween sales have been falling by half every year since 2002, "

Franck Mathais of toys retailer La Grande Recre told the newspaper.

 

A group called " Non a Halloween " set up to fight the trend, which it saw

as an unwelcome intrusion fostered by purely commercial interests, even

wound itself up last year.

 

" There was no need for the group to exist any more, " former president

Arnaud Guyot-Jeannin told Reuters.

 

Halloween is believed to have originated as a Celtic agricultural

festival before becoming associated with the night before the Christian

festival of All Saints Day on Nov. 1.

 

During the 20th century, it became firmly established in the United

States, marked by hollowed out pumpkin heads and children dressed as

ghosts demanding " Trick or Treat " from passers-by.

 

Introduced in France during the 1990s, it aroused strong opposition from

many who found it artificial and over commercial and the festival never

caught on properly. The Catholic church was particularly sceptical.

 

The daily Le Parisien painted a desolate picture of abandoned pumpkins

and sorry displays in isolated restaurant doorways and declared

" Halloween is dead " .

 

" Halloween was a marketing gimmick aimed mainly at children. It's a big

festival of consumption selling outfits, masks, gadgets and it couldn't

last forever, " Guyot-Jeannin said.

 

Copyright 2006 Reuters. All rights reserved.