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    I guard my barn with my life during halloween...just
    in case someone gets the same idea toward my horse.
    That poor kitty....
    
    L-

	What does shaving have to do with Halloween?

	The only time I keep my cats in is November 5th, just in case the
	fireworks frighten them.

	I don't really know why I bother, Cider got out last time, sat on the
	patio, and was jumping up at the sky, trying to "catch" the rockets.

	When I got him back in, he sat on the windowsill and watched. Yoda
	slept through it all anyway!


	Heather

>	What does shaving have to do with Halloween?


This answer is blunt and unpleasant.  If that bothers you, don't read
the rest.



in the USA, all hallows eve is traditionally a time when children play
practical jokes on people.  Unfortunately, a large segment of the
population have no moral compass to guide their relationship to animals,
in particular, cats.  These individuals are quite capable of doing
unbelievably horrible things to cats/dogs/birds if they can catch them.
Any cat that is outside on halloween is vulnerable.  Black cats are
guarenteed to be in danger.  Pranks like having your cat shaved are mild..
the cat will recover.  Last halloween, some young boys caught some cats
and removed most of their skin, leaving them to die near our home.  This
is not a slum area, but a suburb of San Jose Ca. where the average house
price is $250,000+.  It is not unusual things like this to happen in any 
part of the country.

If you have cats, keep them in for 3 or 4 days before halloween thru to 3 or 4
days after halloween.  Your cat may not like it, but you may never see
your cat again if you do not protect it during this time.

    Thanks for the warning not to read the rest of the note, but...
    
    I didn't hit return, but for those of us with workstations and BIG
    windows, the remainder of the message glowed brightly.  I try real hard
    not to read notes that give me nightmares and I appreciate the thought
    when noters put in that form feed, but maybe there is some other way
    that us DECwindows noters can avoid such notes.  I never would have
    read Jack's note on that horrid person, but I didn't have much choice.
    
    Does anyone know how to conceal a page to us DW users??
    
    Mary

	I didn't realise that practical jokes were part of haloween.

	I only lived through one halloween when I was in the states, and I went
	to New York.

	The thing that sticks in my memory is all the outlandish costumes, I had
	a great time.

	It is a real shame that these types of things are allowed to happen.
	

	Heather

    practical jokes at halloween...I was young once,,,,but never 
    hurt an animal!!
    
        o toilet paper in trees
        o throwing eggs
        o waxing cars
        o Poop in a bag on fire...hoping someone stamps it out!
        o Dummies laying in the middle of the road...as if someone got
          hit.
        o Pulling fire alarms    
        o Pumpkins rolling down the biggest hill you can find
        o Ringing doorbells and running away.
                             
    Sandy
                                             
    
    
    
    

    > o waxing cars
    
    Ummm. What is bad/funny here - you can come and wax my car any time!
    
    Lisa plus Pookie and Rolf (almost recovered from kennel cough!)
    

    re 3995.4 - mary's note on hiding notes from DECwindows noters:
    
    I use NOTES/NODECWINDOWS to get the old NOTES interface on my
    workstation, but anyways... I'm told that to hide remainders
    of notes, you have to bury them behind a large number of blank lines,
    like 30 or so... I just tried this - it's so much easier to just
    insert a formfeed, but for DECwindows noters, we should probably get
    into the habit of inserting 30 blank lines instead when we really
    want to hide things.
    
    hope this helps.
    
    jack
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    It works, see?
    
    (moderator - feel free to move this to a more appropiate location if
    you want)

    re .7:
    

 >>   > o waxing cars
 >>   
 >>   Ummm. What is bad/funny here - you can come and wax my car any time!
 
    It's a halloween prank here (thankfully not TOO common) for the kids to
    write on cars/car windows with bars of soap or paraffin wax. It's
    pretty annoying to have to clean up...
    
    jack

	I'd vote against all those blanks, on a slow network they're really 
	frustrating.


	And back to practical jokes,   Yup, I've definately played a few in
	the past, but not on Halloween.


	We used to scoop out the middle of a turnip, cut a    O     O  face
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	and put them on top of the garage
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	Still, if this does go on there, then it's wise to keep the cats in for
	a few days.

	Heather