Friday, October 29, 2004
- To lighten up these final Halloween-to-Election Days, visit the Betty Bowers People Who Are Going Straight To Hell Museum
- Print your own full-color Righteous Jesse Helms Halloween Mask! [PDF file]
- Here's my Top 10 Top 10 Halloween Tips List.
- Top 10 Halloween Tips for Holyweeners, and How To Crash Satan's Birthday Party [Warning: religion spoofs]
- Top 10 Feng Shui Halloween Tips:
"Little ghosts, goblins and witches are running and screaming from door to door. Anticipation of candy and the fright of each home keeps them at high yang energy levels. Implement a few yin qualities to their homes and costumes to keep their energy levels a little more balanced."
- Top 10 LA Fire Department Halloween Tips
- Halloween Tips for Pets
- The ADA's Halloween Tips for Diabetics
- David Letterman's Top 10 Least Popular Halloween Candies
- Better Homes and Gardens Top 10 Halloween Recipes, including the ever popular Cat Cookies, Spider Cupcakes, and Cheesy Goblin Head
- Top 10 Star Wars Halloween Activities
- Infoplease's Top 10 Scariest Halloween Movies: not a bad list, with Silence of the Lambs, The Exorcist and Se7en all on the roll. For some lighter fare, try this Top 10 list.
- And last but not least, FOX Sports' Top 10 Scariest Sports Figures: with a name like Raiders, you've gotta be baaaaad.
- "Meu nome é Cão": A Brazilian lawmaker wants to make it illegal to give pets in that nation human names:
Federal congressman Reinaldo Santos e Silva proposed the law after psychologists suggested that some children may get depressed when they learn they share their first name with someone's pet, said Damarias Alves, a spokeswoman for Silva. "Names have importance," said Alves. The congressman "wants to challenge people's assumptions that it's acceptable to give animals human names," she said. If the law is passed, pet stores and veterinary clinics would be required to display a sign noting the prohibition of human first names for pets. Brazilians who break the law would be subject to fines or community service.
I suppose we've no monopoly on strange laws...so, would this language law only apply to names common in Brazil? How about giving pets human names from other languages? What if someone gives their child a "pet's" name?