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I am sure many people are thinking “Awww cute”. I am thinking ROUSes (Rodents of Unusual Size, Princess Bride) and that’s my head after being buried up to the neck. Them chowing down. Also, 1984 with the rats in a cage on my head. Boo! Scary Halloween everyone.
Fuzzyfungus, a scholar of Google University(PhD, DDS, DPhil, MD, OBE, et al.) wishes to validate your feelings of concern with empirical* evidence:
It’s not Halloween season. There is no Halloween season. Halloween is the eve of All Saints’ Day. One day before. Not a season.
The Tick: You are telling me Speak is really a rodent!!?!!???
Vet: World’s largest.
I Am Jack’s Completely Hungry Capybaras.
Wrong. Halloween season runs concurrently with harvest season, both of which terminate on the same pagan holiday later appropriated by Christians.
Don’t make me school you on awards season’s relationship to Oscar night, also a pagan holiday.
Halloween is a Celtic festival, later appropriated by Christians, and it is one night of the year, not a season. I’m from Scotland, so I win.
I’m Scottish, so I never win anything, even when I win.
Sounds like it sucks to be you; bummer.
Are you going guising?
Heavens no, that would be much more frightening than ghosties and ghoulies.
Jesus isn’t that spooky.
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