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Rotating Disembodied Head asks: Have you spent 10,000 man hours recreating a costume of a minor character from Star Trek to wear at conventions or merely turned up at a party buck-naked and sporting a mouthful of custard which you spit out on demand and declare yourself to be a zit? Tales of the old dressing up box, fancy dress parties and stealing panties off next door's line. Said too much.

(, Thu 25 Oct 2012, 12:37)
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That wiki article is very vague, and largely irrelevant - 'souling' seems to be tangentially related, at best, and 'guising' - a bit closer, but not something I've ever heard of, possibly because it would seem to be almost exclusively Scottish. I'm probably not alone in my ignorance, as Wikipedia hasn't deemed it important enough for its own article. Any reference to older roots for the practice are thick with weasel-words such as "may" and "could".

'Trick or Treat' is recent, and imported from the USA. You can check this fairly easily by trying to find an old-timer who used to go Trick or Treating. I'll bet a pound to a penny that you won't find one.
(, Fri 26 Oct 2012, 14:14, 1 reply)
I am one of those old timers and can vouch
for the veracity of your statement from first hand experience. The first experience I have of trick or treating was when my kids wanted to do it, early 1970s.
(, Fri 26 Oct 2012, 14:29, closed)
Going back to the original post,
we're discussing the 'Americanisation' of B3ta.

The suggestion is that the UK has somehow picked up the idea of trick or treating from the US.

Or at least that's what I thought we were discussing.

Just pointing out, while maybe it's not clear who started it, certainly there has been some tradition of doing it for at least 30 years in both countries.

And forms of it - people roaming around at Haloween in some kind of dress, and possibly collecting things, for centuries.
(, Fri 26 Oct 2012, 15:07, closed)
I came to Oz in the early 80's
Now I will admit that when we came here we were living out in the middle of fucking nowhere but, it really only has become a regular occurrence in the last decade or so that groups of kiddies have started roaming the streets at the end of Oct. Prior to that you may have gone to a dress up party but that was about it.

Any other antipodeans have similar/different experiences?
(, Fri 26 Oct 2012, 21:28, closed)
You could ask my bro'
He went to Perth in '69
(, Sat 27 Oct 2012, 21:50, closed)
Go on then.
I reckon the first time the missus and I got sprogs at the door was either 1999 or 2000 (from hazy memory).
(, Sun 28 Oct 2012, 23:09, closed)

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