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ED NOTE: Our Blast From The Past page contains memories from 5 years to 100 years ago. I encourage all suscribers to submit their memories, photos, and ideas to
blast@mccartymetro.com
to have them shared with our family.
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Horror is a film genre seeking to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's primal fears. Horror films often feature scenes that startle the viewer; the macabre and the supernatural are frequent themes. Thus they may overlap with the fantasy, supernatural, and thriller
genres. Horror movies often deal with the viewer's nightmares, hidden fears, revulsions and terror of the unknown. Plots within the horror genre often involve the intrusion of an evil force, event, or personage, commonly of supernatural origin, into the everyday world. Prevalent elements include ghosts, aliens, vampires, werewolves, demons, vicious animals, monsters, zombies, cannibals, and serial killers. Conversely, movies about the supernatural are not necessarily always
horrific.
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ARTICLES TAKEN FROM OUR OCTOBER
2004 EDITION
Mom always made
us sort our candy. Can you put the candy in the right bag??
Candy
To Sort
(Copy & Paste
Into The Fields Above) |
Squirrel
Potato Chips
Full Size Snickers
Peanut Butter Chews |
Mary
Jane
Bit O Honey
Slo-Poke
Sugar Babies |
Lik-M-Aid
Cracker Jack
Apple
Bubs Daddy |
Tootsie
Roll
Open Candy Corn
Wax Lips
Milk Duds |
Bottle
Caps
Junior Mints
Candy Cigarettes
A Business Card |
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All experienced (or retired)
trick-or-treaters know the difference between a good treat and
bad one. But no McCarty has attempted to rate the Halloween
booty. The closest any McCarty ever came to scaring up a
Halloween candy rating system was when Mom McCarty separated the
penny candy from the nickel candy.
Here is my attempt to fill this ratings gap, using a scale of
four pumpkins (excellent, gotta-have candy) to one (aargh,
wouldn’t give it to a ghoul). Also: three pumpkins (good) and two (so-so, wanna trade?).
| Item |
Rank |
Comments |
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| Bite-size
Tootsie Rolls |
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But the
full-sizers merit a full 3. |
| Junior
Mints |
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Adults
who give these are cool |
| Candy
Corn |
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Ghastly
stuff, but kids wind up with a silo full every year |
| Potato
chips |
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Those
little bags are mostly air. Only redeeming value: salt |
| Campaign
or UNICEF literature |
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Only thing
worse than candy corn.
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| Three
Musketeers |
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Don’t
forget to say “thank you.” |
| Smarties |
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A
welcome sour taste to all that sugar-sugar |
| Apples |
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These
do have a use. Throw ’em at a bully who tries to steal
your bag |
| Hershey’s
Miniatures |
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Tiny,
but worth your while on the porch |
| Gum |
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As
long as you get a full pack. Eschew individual sticks |
BURNING LEAVES
An October childhood memory
growing up in Detroit was raking leaves,
playing in the
leaves, then burning the leaves. The smell was great!
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Iron Mountain in 1979
Ryan, Karen, Andy, Dad, Kelly Steve & Mike
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Why
not submit your old photos to the McCarty
Metro! Just
Attach them in an email to...
McCarty
Metro Photo
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Guess
This Cartoon Character From The Past |
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 LAST
MONTH'S ANSWER WAS...
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MASTER
CYLINDER
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From Felix The Cat |
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| Congratulations: Daniel
and Eric |
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GUESS THE
YEAR OF THESE SONGS
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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - Gene Autry
You're Breaking My Heart - The Ink Spots
Riders In The Sky - Vaughn Monroe
I've Got A Lovely Bunch Of Coconuts - F Martin
Baby, It's Cold Outside - Dinah Shore/Buddy Clark
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