From: Wesley Parish <wobblygong@gmail.com>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Test, test
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2023 18:05:52 +1300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fa58fb91-dff9-46f6-9be8-4330ac90d554@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2311241557050.55865@aneurin.horsfall.org>
True; but it wasn't a tradition that got imported to the lands downunder
with the convicts or the settlers. I used to read about "trick or treat"
in the ubiquitous US comic books, but never thought it'd be imported.
Wesley
On 24/11/23 18:01, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Nov 2023, Wesley Parish wrote:
>
>> Like we in New Zealand now have Halloween?
> Hallowe'en is an ancient English thing; it's the Yank import of "trick or
> treat" that got pushed by the marketoids to make another quick buck is
> what annoys us.
>
> -- Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-11-24 5:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-11-24 2:45 Norman Wilson
2023-11-24 2:49 ` Damian Wildie
2023-11-24 3:07 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2023-11-24 4:45 ` Wesley Parish
2023-11-24 5:01 ` Dave Horsfall
2023-11-24 5:05 ` Wesley Parish [this message]
2023-11-24 5:12 ` Peter Yardley
2023-11-24 7:04 ` John Cowan
2023-11-24 8:22 ` Steve Nickolas
2023-11-24 5:42 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2023-11-24 2:58 Norman Wilson
2023-11-24 4:13 ` Dave Horsfall
2023-11-24 8:16 ` Hellwig Geisse
2023-11-24 14:06 ` Will Senn
2023-11-24 19:41 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2023-11-24 19:55 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2023-11-24 0:30 [TUHS] " Warren Toomey via TUHS
2023-11-24 0:33 ` [TUHS] " Niklas Karlsson
2023-11-24 0:37 ` John P. Linderman
2023-11-24 1:03 ` Will Senn
2023-11-24 1:43 ` Stuff Received
2023-11-24 2:20 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2023-11-24 8:18 ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via TUHS
2023-11-24 8:24 ` arnold
2023-11-24 14:01 ` Will Senn
2023-11-24 2:03 ` Molly A. McCollum
2023-11-24 7:23 ` Sergio Pedraja
2023-11-24 22:11 ` Bakul Shah
2024-05-26 11:10 ` Joe
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