Tuesday 10/31/23
Celebrate:
Book for Treats Day
Carve a Pumpkin Day
Girl Scout Founder's Day
National Caramel Apple Day
National Doorbell Day
National Increase Your Psychic Powers Day
National Knock-Knock Jokes Day
National Magic Day
Scare a Friend Day
Sneak Some of the Candy Yourself Before the Kids Start Knocking Day (wait..that's been a whole month!)
World Savings Day
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Happy Halloween!!
The tradition originated with the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, when people would light bonfires and wear costumes to ward off ghosts. In the eighth century, Pope Gregory III designated November 1 as a time to honor all saints. Soon, All Saints Day incorporated some of the traditions of Samhain. The evening before was known as All Hallows Eve, and later Halloween.
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Borrowing from European traditions, Americans began to dress up in costumes and go house to house asking for food or money, a practice that eventually became today’s “trick-or-treat” tradition. Young women believed that on Halloween they could divine the name or appearance of their future husband by doing tricks with yarn, apple parings or mirrors.
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We avoid crossing paths with black cats, afraid that they might bring us bad luck. This idea has its roots in the Middle Ages, when many people believed that witches avoided detection by turning themselves into black cats.
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Many Halloween customs had to do with women identifying their future husbands.
In Scotland, fortune-tellers recommended that an eligible young woman name a hazelnut for each of her suitors and then toss the nuts into the fireplace. The nut that burned to ashes rather than popping or exploding, the story went, represented the girl’s future husband. (In some versions of this legend, the opposite was true: The nut that burned away symbolized a love that would not last.)
Another tale had it that if a young woman ate a sugary concoction made out of walnuts, hazelnuts and nutmeg before bed on Halloween night she would dream about her future husband.
Young women tossed apple-peels over their shoulders, hoping that the peels would fall on the floor in the shape of their future husbands’ initials; tried to learn about their futures by peering at egg yolks floating in a bowl of water and stood in front of mirrors in darkened rooms, holding candles and looking over their shoulders for their husbands’ faces.
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Mental Floss has a list of The 25 Best Haunted House Movies of All Time.
It includes Crimson Peak
The Conjuring
Paranormal Activity
Beetlejuice
Poltergeist
The Shining
and even all the way back to 1944 The Uninvited.
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Taylor Swift is set to kick off her international lef of her tour this week in Argentina..maybe that's why we didn't see her on the footballs Sunday, oh and the Chiefs lost. Hmmmm.
Oh and according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Taylor's net worth is now $1.1 billion thanks in large part to her record-breaking Eras Tour which isn't even over yet.
Her latest release, "1989 (Taylor's Version)", just broke a Spotify record that was previously held by one of her OTHER albums, "Midnights".
Taylor is one of the few entertainers to reach billionaire status on the basis of her music and her performances alone.
Rihanna, Beyoncé, and Jay-Z recently reached billionaire status . . . but their various business ventures make up a huge part of their wealth.
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Martin Scorsese's latest movie "Killers of the Flower Moon" is 3 HOURS and 26 MINUTES long.
Which has led to some independent theaters getting in trouble for having an intermission break.
Studio representatives contacted one of the theaters that did it and said they violated their licensing agreement.
An anonymous theater employee says they did an eight-minute break and it was a hit. Quote, "We were going to keep doing it going forward with longer movies, but now it doesn't seem like an option."
So it begs the question: With movies getting longer and longer, should they have intermission breaks?
And who tattled?? No one likes someone who tells...when you really need to go to the bathroom!!!!!!!
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - Your nose is always in your line of sight . . . your brain is just ignoring it. (until now, and you're very aware of it.)
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