Happy Hallowe'en

  Jack-o-lantern designed by my daughter, Anais, with assistance from myself
For further enjoyment, the angry mob scene from Frankenstein

Halloween Gifs

Historical tidbit: Why do kids trick or treat on Halloween? At the turn of the 20th century, Scottish imigrant boys would wander in the darkness, setting livestock free, breaking windows, and generally wreaking havoc with their pranks. A woman found that bribing the little monsters with homemade treats would deter them from their "tricks." The tradition quickly spread, and is now celebrated widely today.

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The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth. -George Jean Nathan

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause. -George Eliot

In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter. -Lord Chesterfield

Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died. -Peter Ustinov

Nobody ever died of laughter. -Max Beerbohm

Nothing can confound [or bemuse] a wise man more than laughter from a dunce. -George Byron

 

Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature. -Agnes Repplier 

I remember certain people in the audience laughing and I wanted to ask: 'What are you laughing at? This isn't funny.' Now I realize that laughter can come from insecurity. They don't know how they should be feeling. -Jim Dale

When people are laughing, they're generally not killing each other. -Alan Alda

Though the clown is often deadpan, he is a connoisseur of laughter.-Mel Gusso

He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad. -Rafael Sabatini

Whoever said "laughter is the best medicine" never had gonorrhea.  -Kat Likkel and John Hoberg, My Name Is Earl, "Robbed a Stoner Blind," original airdate 16 November 2006

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.  -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You laugh at me because I am different, but I laugh at you because you are all the same -Jonathan Davis

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it! -Charlie Chaplin

Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy. -Bryant H. McGill

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. -Mahatma Gandhi

S/he who laughs last, laughs best -unknown

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