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Ginger - Oct 31, 2007 5:28:54 am PDT #1756 of 10002

"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Samhain is the end of the Celtic year, time to close up the old year and prepare for winter. According to legend, it's a time when the veil between the living and the dead thins. Its celebration has included leaving out food for the dead, sacred bonfires and predictions for the future. Many of its traditions got rolled into Halloween and, as part of the omnivorous Christian co-opting of existing religions, All Saints' Day.

The people who celebrate it could do a much better job than I'm doing.

Steph L. - Oct 31, 2007 5:31:48 am PDT #1757 of 10002

I look more rad than Lutheranism

Samhain is the end of the Celtic year

And a really annoying punk band.

beekaytee - Oct 31, 2007 5:34:38 am PDT #1758 of 10002

Compassionately intolerant

The people who celebrate it could do a much better job than I'm doing.

I'm one of those and I think you did quite well there.

It is a sacred day that constitutes the last spoke on the wheel of the year. (Yule is considered the 'new' year.)

It's a time for feasting and communing with ancestors...calling for guidance and assistance through the dark months.

Pronounced, by many, as Sow-in.

Steph L. - Oct 31, 2007 5:34:58 am PDT #1759 of 10002

I look more rad than Lutheranism

Oatmeal:

I'm sure I pronounce Samhain wrong, even though I know the correct way to pronounce it -- I can't get my mouth to make the proper sounds. (I pronounce it, more or less, as "saw-ayn.")

Jessica - Oct 31, 2007 5:37:11 am PDT #1760 of 10002

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I think most Americans pronounce it phonetically (SAM-hayne) until corrected.

JZ - Oct 31, 2007 5:37:43 am PDT #1761 of 10002

See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

Happy Birthday, Daniel!

Happy Anniversary, House Of Reason!!!

(Sorry, Pete, but Jilli's got the job suck right now so she gets the compensatory just-for-her color scheme)

tommyrot - Oct 31, 2007 5:40:16 am PDT #1762 of 10002

Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Happy b-day Daniel!!

Happy Anniversary, Jilli & Pete!!!

It took me a bit to figure out that it's probably not a coincidence that the House of Reason's anniversary is on Halloween....

-t - Oct 31, 2007 5:43:18 am PDT #1763 of 10002

I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

How've you been pronouncing it?

Like it was an English word, sam-hain. I'm told that the middle consonant is more of a w sound. I think I'm going to avoid ever saying it outloud because I will not be able to remember what is correct, ever.

Jars - Oct 31, 2007 5:47:02 am PDT #1764 of 10002

Yeah, it's pretty much Sow (to rhyme with cow) - in. In Irish the last syllable of words tends to get deadened a bit, so it sounds a bit like sow-un too. Yeah, a cross between sow-in and sow-un.

Sparky1 - Oct 31, 2007 5:47:27 am PDT #1765 of 10002

Librarian Warlord

Happy Anniversary House of Reason!

Happy Birthday, Daniel!

It's house buying day and I have to go to the bank.

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