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Posted by Jerry Chase (Member # 660) on 10-22-2001, 10:24 AM:
Anyone know why Showeast seems to have a different length year than the rest of us? Every year it creeps closer and closer to Christmas.I don't understand the logic of any show scheduling for the end of October. There are a lot of folks who have to deal with Cabbage Night, Devil's Night, and be sure their kids are safe.
Posted by Ken Lackner (Member # 1002) on 10-22-2001, 12:08 PM:
Cabbage Night??
Posted by Kristin Wahlund (Member # 922) on 10-22-2001, 09:47 PM:
Giant Cabbages eat little children at night...
I don't really know, but its a thought.
Posted by Jerry Chase (Member # 660) on 10-22-2001, 11:15 PM:
Cabbage Night is one of many regionalisms for the night before Halloween. This one is local to Vermont, and on Cabbage Night the kids would go into gardens, grab cabbages and pumpkins that hadn't been harvested and smash them on the roads, etc.Of course to do that you have to have:
A. Gardens
B. Cabbages
C. Kids who know what a cabbage is, and where to find them.
Chances of finding all three together today are pretty slim.
Back a few years ago, when I grew up in Vermont, there wasn't much else to damage. We had one pair of socks that the family shared during the winter, and we were glad to be that rich.
Posted by Freddie Dobbs (Member # 915) on 10-23-2001, 09:42 AM:
Cabbage night????? hey how about ground beef night now thats a night I could wallow in...
Posted by Jerry Chase (Member # 660) on 10-23-2001, 11:41 AM:
Ground beef night??? Whaddaya imagine, going into some farmer's barn, hijacking Bossy, and running over her with a semi?BTW, ever heard of cow tipping?
How about popcorn night instead? Sneak into gardens, strip the ears off the corn stalks, and spread popcorn around on the ground underneath. Tell stories of an alien saucer.
Rochester, NY could go over to Buffalo and host a Photo-flo night at Niagra Falls. 
Anyone ever figure out how high the foam from that stuff could be mounded?
Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 10-23-2001, 11:55 AM:
Jerry, I will go cow tipping with you and then we can go and hunt some snipe.
Posted by Jerry Chase (Member # 660) on 10-23-2001, 01:42 PM:
Bob and me snipe huntingGood ol' boy snipe hunting I never thought plinking snipe could be taken to such levels.
Cow tipping for those who don't know what a pasture pattie is.
Posted by Gordon McLeod (Member # 33) on 10-24-2001, 05:39 AM:
Well since a large number of Showeast attendees are from canada early Oct was always a problem because it lined up with our Thanksgiving weekend. Since that is a busy theatre period here it has been great moving it later in October. Also there is more product ready to be screened as one gets closer to the US thanksgiving release timetable than would be finished for screening earlier
Posted by Freddie Dobbs (Member # 915) on 10-24-2001, 09:56 AM:
AHhh, but who know's what a watermellon roast is....
oh I almost forgot, important.. wear boots when cow tipping...