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Mischief Night

Willets Point Oct 30 2006 12:57 PM

A good time to be a stockholder in companies that sell eggs, soap and toilet paper.

cooby Oct 30 2006 12:59 PM

And windex! My son's into bodybuilding lately and he's been eating two eggs for breakfast every day for weeks; last week the store was almost sold out!

metsmarathon Oct 30 2006 02:05 PM

i guess today i'll find out how active my new neighborhood is wrt the makings of mischief. i'll be duly disappointed if substantial mischief is created AND those silly inflatable lawn ornaments survive the melee.

Nymr83 Oct 30 2006 02:31 PM

what neighboorhood? i'll have a pumpkin-smashing crew out there in no time.

Willets Point Oct 30 2006 03:28 PM

Wow, Nymr83 is a Pumpkin-Smashing Mob Boss.

Nymr83 Oct 30 2006 04:37 PM

if you try to get in our way we WILL egg your sidewalk.

MFS62 Oct 30 2006 06:53 PM Re: Mischief Night

Willets Point wrote: A good time to be a stockholder in companies that sell eggs, soap and toilet paper. To anyone thinking of doing that on my block, just a gentle reminder that our shopping lists included birdshot, too. Later

Willets Point Oct 30 2006 07:01 PM

No holiday spirit in this one.

Nymr83 Oct 30 2006 07:10 PM Re: Mischief Night

MFS62 wrote: ="Willets Point"]A good time to be a stockholder in companies that sell eggs, soap and toilet paper. To anyone thinking of doing that on my block, just a gentle reminder that our shopping lists included birdshot, too. Later you shop with Dick Cheney?

ScarletKnight41 Oct 31 2006 08:44 AM

Our neighborhood survived Mischief Night relatively unscathed. I did notice that one house was TP'd - a teacher in our district with a reputation for being tough lives there. Otherwise, things were pretty quiet here.

cooby Oct 31 2006 08:45 AM

Um, why are all your neighborhoods doing this a night early?

ScarletKnight41 Oct 31 2006 08:54 AM

Mischief Night is the night prior to Halloween.

Benjamin Grimm Oct 31 2006 09:09 AM

I never heard of Mischief Night until I moved to Pennsylvania. We didn't have that when I was a kid on Long Island.

seawolf17 Oct 31 2006 09:17 AM

Okay, good... I had no idea what anyone was talking about in this thread, but I'm not alone.

cooby Oct 31 2006 09:18 AM

I'm just laughing that you have a designated night for "mischief"

Edgy DC Oct 31 2006 09:24 AM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Oct 31 2006 09:41 AM

Agreed. And its brilliance cannot be overstated. What better way to take the mischief out of mischief than to designate a night for it.

Willets Point Oct 31 2006 09:26 AM

Mischeif Night or the more violent Devil's Night in Michigan is October 30th.

metsmarathon Oct 31 2006 11:26 AM

i'm so disappointed. not a single roll of tp was tossed into a tree in my neighborhood. next year, i guess i'll have to kick off the festivities my own damned self!

cooby Oct 31 2006 11:42 AM

Maybe they will do it tonight, on the proper night

Willets Point Oct 31 2006 12:18 PM

No minor vandals in my 'hood either, mm. Tonight's the night for trick-or-treating, cooby!

MFS62 Oct 31 2006 01:08 PM Re: Mischief Night

Nymr83 wrote: ="MFS62"] ="Willets Point"]A good time to be a stockholder in companies that sell eggs, soap and toilet paper. To anyone thinking of doing that on my block, just a gentle reminder that our shopping lists included birdshot, too. Later you shop with Dick Cheney? Not that I know of. But I definitely wouldn't go hunting with him. Later

cooby Nov 01 2006 07:21 AM

When I was in high school, I went to an outdoor slumber party at a girlfriends house. While we were swimming, her big brothers were out roaming around the yard, feeding the dog, burning garbage, etc, generally probably just checking us out. (they had a big big yard, she lived out in the country, even had room for a barn and a horse) As it started getting darker out, we began to notice these two lit up eyes down in the yard. This was around the time of the Exorcist, and Amityville Horror, etc. You never heard such shreiking, not even during your most successful camp panty raids. And I was probably leading the pack. Carla being Carla, set off to see what it was and found a paper bag with two holes cut in it and with a flashlight inside that her brothers had set up hours before when it was still light out. Nobody had noticed it, of course until it got dark. Then, it was very effective. Anyway, ever since then Jack O Lanterns have freaked me out in a delicious kind of way This morning I was standing at the kitchen sink making my son's breakfast when some deer caught my eye down by the woods. It only took an instant to see that down on our picnic table sat a pumpkin with a big grinning face looking up at the house! I kind of screamed a little and told my son to look at it. I looked out on our front porch and our pumpkin was gone! I know it was there when the kids were trick or treating. He went down to look at it and somebody had just scraped off enough skin to show the white part through it so that you can see it from the house, probably 40 or 50 yards away And it is definitely ours, he looked and it says 4.80 on the bottom! It's like somebody knew how to push my buttons! My husband and son swear it wasn't them. Now that's a good trick!