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It was in, oh, about 5th, 6th grade (10-11 yo [Yoder? Where, pray tell, my dear Ænigma, did you find Yoder?]). My costume was a cat suit. The tail fell off during the school parade about the neighborhood and I spent the rest of the parade time asking people if they knew where there was a retail store. Obviously an early sign of depravity.
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a cat suit...... Obviously an early sign of depravity.
i'll say-- cross dressing at such an early age! Is this still a hobby? No wait-- I don't think i want to know the answer-- Only a very young and sleek body looks good in a cat suit-- like a birthday suit, its show age rapidly... you might have made a wonderful cat-- but its not very often you see a male in a cat suit-- i don't think Fredrick's of Hollywood offers them in their catalog... maybe i am just looking in the wrong places..
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trick or treaters
Here's a peculiar word for you. My father, a native of Reading PA, which is in Berks Co. PA and in the heart of the Pennsylvania Dutch country, used the word belschnickel for trick-or-treater. This was the old Pa-Dutch word. I have no idea of the derivation.
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Halloween costumes
One of our sons attended kindergarten at a school with a lot of trees around it, including osage orange trees. The osage orange produces fruit in autumn which fall on the ground, right in time for Halloween, about the size of a grapefruit, light green with a wrinkled, convoluted skin. We dressed up the kid in an old scrubsuit, cap and mask (my wife is a nurse and brought a set home from the hospital where she was working), gave him an imitation scalpel and an osage orange fruit and he went out as Dr. Frankenstein carrying this "brain". It was a tremendous hit. To this day, we refer to osage orange trees as "brain trees."
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>I spent the rest of the parade time asking people if they knew where there was a retail store. Obviously an early sign of depravity.
Brings back memories. I was a cat once, and got caught in my dad's lawnmower. He had me going around to all the houses asking for a piece of tail.
Depravity is apparently hereditary!
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Oh TEd, I nearly choked on that one. I thought your were going to say a piece of p...y. Boy, you gents are sure taking up the gutter-snipe baton while Jackie is away 
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Is it significant that our favourite gutter-dweller went to D.C.? Political centres often seem to be little more than giant gutters, n'est-ce pas?
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She went to refresh the gutter batteries and plot schemes for the wider dispersal of sewers ...
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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This thread started out as Christmas wishes, and has moved on to Halloween--
There are way to many computer nerd on the board-evidently since all the old time computer nerds (or even new nerds in Unix) have the problem of confusing Halloween and Christmas--
after all Oct(al)31 = Dec(imal)25!
all you non-math, non computer nerds just ignore... Not everyone enjoys a really good math joke...
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>>>new nerds in Unix after all Oct(al)31 = Dec(imal)25! <<< my husband wishes for me to point out that new Unix nerds speak hex(adecimal) not oct(al). yes, we liked your joke. 
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