Re: CHAT: Halloween (was Re: verbal nouns)

On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Jonathan Chang wrote:

> In a message dated 2000:10:04 10:42:36 AM, romilly@EGL.NET writes:
>
> >Ah me.  In more innocent times (19th, early 20th cent.) when the US was
> >still mainly a rural society, we are told that it was the habit of young
> >men to do naughty things on Halloween like putting a cow in the local church,
> >or on the roof (how???); or, dis-assembling a wagon or Model-T Ford and
> >re-assembling it on top of City Hall.  Nowadays, at least around here,
> >they just set fire to vacant buildings.
>
>     The most unusual Halloween stunt I know of was a band of evidently
> ex-military types going around knocking over crack-houses in a major urban
> city in the US (I am not at liberty to say exactly where). This 6-man team
> destroyed something like 7 houses in one night... Trick or Treat, indeed...
[snip]

The Halloween prank *I* liked best ever was whoever put the pumpkin on
top of McGraw Tower at Cornell!  I'm told we were even on the news...and
I have a photo of the tower-with-pumpkin-perched-atop somewhere.  =^)

YHL