Classic Halloween photos

[TheHeadlessHorseman]

There is one more post with some Peanuts pictures above this.

The first picture in this post is from my local supermarket, it shows the Peanuts design on the side of the shipper they use for the pumpkins. Most of the good pumpkins were already gone by the time I got there though.

The other picture of the Jason Voorhees snack cakes I found online, I don't know if they are real, or if someone just made the picture, but I want them.

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[Andybev01]

If the Jason cupcakes are real I'd have to buy 2 boxes, one to eat and one to save.

[Murfreesboro]

Omg! No, I don't think they are making Peanuts specials or Hostess cupcakes like that, lol.

Our Kroger does not have cool pumpkin boxes like that.

[TheHeadlessHorseman]

Well, this is... interesting, it's a ad from a old comic for Twinkies with Batman and The Mummy from 1975, it's hard to believe that was 50 years ago. It is unbelievably nonsensical and ridiculous, but I consider it Halloween related because it was in the Oct. issue, and it has a Mummy!

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[Murfreesboro]

That's really cute. I never saw that before.

And, yes, I recall 1975 quite vividly. I was 20 years old, and it was the year I left home. Weird how looking back over all those eventful years, a half century doesn't feel as long as it does when you're looking ahead.

[Andybev01]

50 years from will be 2075, I don't think I'll be here to see that.

[TheHeadlessHorseman]

It's probably a safe bet that none of us will still be here by then, I would be 94, and if my math is correct, Andy would be 108, and Murf would be a very impressive 121 years old!

[Murfreesboro]

Well, I have promised my children to live to 120, since I think somewhere in the Bible it says that's possible. But I don't think 121 is permitted.

At the rate my kids are going, I think I may need to live to 120 if I'm ever to see grandchildren.

[TheHeadlessHorseman]

Well, according to Google the oldest person ever verified was Jeanne Calment, a French woman who lived to be 122 years and 164 days old. She was born on February 21, 1875, and died on August 4, 1997.

The current oldest living person, is Ethel Caterham of the United Kingdom, born on August 21, 1909, and she is currently 115 years old.

I also read about a woman named Sarah Knauss that lived from 24 September 1880 to 30 December 1999, and she was 119 years, 97 days. If she had only lived a little longer, she was so close to witnessing the year 2000.

I know the part of the Bible that you are referring to, it was Genesis 6:3: "My Spirit will not contend with humans forever, for they are mortal; their days will be a hundred and twenty years."

Of course, the Bible does mention people with way longer lifespans than that, particularly in the early chapters of Genesis. Some examples I can think of are Adam, Methuselah, Abraham and Noah. I believe that Methuselah lived to 969 years old.

[Murfreesboro]

Yes, and even so he died before his father (grandfather?), who I think was Enoch. One of those riddles I recall from way back.

I went to a religious college that required everyone to pass courses in Old and New Testaments before they graduated. Our OT prof said that some people think the ancient Jews may have counted two years for our one, since they had two harvests a year. But that still doesn't account for people living 900+ years.