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[Mills Chapman]

Do Cypriots celebrate Halloween (Oct. 31)? Just curious.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween

Oops... just saw this thread from a year ago: http://www.cyprus-forum.com/viewtopic.p ... =halloween

[phoenix]

You are probably not interested in the U.K., but I have just sent home a dozen ten year old boys after an evening of American style Halloween festivities and boy am I pissed off with you Yanks for introducing it to us!

Masses of junk food, chocolates, sweets, lollies, crisps etc all over my house. Synthetic blood, dismembered organs and appendages, fangs, cloaks . . . and now I am told I have to write a note to the Science teacher to say my son was unwell and unable to complete this homework . . . because he was out "trick-or-treat" -ing.

Thanks . . . but are you ever going to introduce anything worthwhile?

[T_C]

Even the TCs celebrate Halloween but not on the same day as the rest.

1st October is when we celebrate it in the north!

[phoenix]

Even the TCs celebrate Halloween but not on the same day as the rest.

1st October is when we celebrate it in the north!

You are SO weird!

But perky!

[T_C]

Even the TCs celebrate Halloween but not on the same day as the rest.

1st October is when we celebrate it in the north!

You are SO weird!

But perky!

I'm UNIQUE!

Besides...it was a joke...did you get it????

[oranos64]

Do Cypriots celebrate Halloween (Oct. 31)? Just curious.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween

Oops... just saw this thread from a year ago: http://www.cyprus-forum.com/viewtopic.p ... =halloween

NO WE ARE CHRISTIANS AND MOSLEMS ...

[oranos64]

Even the TCs celebrate Halloween but not on the same day as the rest.

1st October is when we celebrate it in the north!

You are SO weird!

But perky!

I'm UNIQUE!

Besides...it was a joke...did you get it????

NO SHE DIDNT ..EXPLAIN . D HEAD

[phoenix]

Even the TCs celebrate Halloween but not on the same day as the rest.

1st October is when we celebrate it in the north!

You are SO weird!

But perky!

I'm UNIQUE!

Besides...it was a joke...did you get it????

Yeah T_C you are too obtuse and obscure . . . what is the joke?

(Humour him . . he is TC, )

[Mills Chapman]

... and boy am I pissed off with you Yanks for introducing it to us! .. Thanks . . . but are you ever going to introduce anything worthwhile?

Uh, on July 4, 1776 we introduced the Declaration of Independence, a statement ridding us of a nasty and arrogant imperialist power that was horribly taxing us. When we told them to "be gone," they didn't listen and sailed over across the pond to make us kneel before them, but they eventually sailed home with their tail between their legs.

Several other emerging countries (like the Vietnamese against the French) modeled their independence declarations off the US's Declaration of Independence. Hardly anyone knows that Ho Chi Minh was inspired by the US's 1776 statement and based Vietnam's proclamation in 1946 off of it. He approached Harry Truman (president of the US then) for help against the French, but Truman refused and aided the French instead. This could have prevented America's war against Vietnam. Aargh.

oranos64, many Christians and Muslims in the US celebrate Halloween too, but we just don't pay that much attention to the history behind the holiday. It's just a fun time for children to dress up in costumes and collect candy from the neighbors.

[Nikitas]

Well we do have a similar celebration with masks etc bu the emphasis is more on the comic than the macabre, it is called Sikoses, the Carnival time and kids would go around in a kind of trick or treat route, but they had to make people laugh before they got their rewards. There were impromptu sketches and pantomime by masked "actors so there is a similarity of sorts.