31 December 2002, 06:22 PM
ezhCabbage Night
Could you explain what Cabbage Night is.
It was mentioned in the beginning of the second chapter of "Something wicked this way comes".
01 January 2003, 12:40 AM
Nard KordellHalloween Eve... is Cabbage Night
01 January 2003, 06:45 AM
ezhthanks
01 January 2003, 12:14 PM
Mr. DarkI didn't know that. What's the origin? Why Cabbage Night? It's not like Linus's waiting for the Great Pumpkin in a pumpkin patch, is it?
01 January 2003, 06:10 PM
WritingReptileNever heard of it, either. But here's a link that may explain things:
http://hcs.harvard.edu/~golder/dialect/staticmaps/q_110.html Don't thank me. I just Googled it.
Dave
01 January 2003, 07:42 PM
Nard KordellI don't happen to have a copy of Something Wicked This Way Comes (I have the incessant habit of giving copies away) ....but the term Cabbage Night is only used to to denote Halloween Eve in ...."Vermont".
Now Something Wicked.... is set in Green Town, Illinois (Northern Illinois)...BUT something of the movie, I remembering hearing, was shot in Vermont, tho most of it was done on the Disney lot. Hmmmm!!?
So where does THAT leave us...?
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01 January 2003, 10:03 PM
dandelionIn Cabbage Patch, USA.
02 January 2003, 04:22 AM
WritingReptileForget Cabbage Night, what the hell is a bumbershoot!?
02 January 2003, 09:57 AM
fjpalumboI believe it is a slang (or maybe colloquial use) for an "umbrella."
02 January 2003, 06:20 PM
Nard KordellWritingReptile::::::::::::::It is a totally extravagant Arts Festival...with Ten Thousand (10,000) descriptions of expressions of Art, Music, Theater, etc etc.........all together, in 'One Place'....!!!!!
(Guess what!? It also means an umbrella...)
Click on:::
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02 January 2003, 06:36 PM
WritingReptileAmazing. To think before today I'd never heard of a bumbershoot. But why isn't there a cabbagenight.org?
PS from now on I vow to only refer to my umbrella as a bumbershoot.
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07 January 2003, 07:27 AM
ezh10x to all.
But still, why this night is cabbage and not carrots or for example tobacco.
Does anybody know the ethimology?
31 October 2004, 05:30 AM
dandelionCan anyone enlighten us further?
31 October 2004, 01:37 PM
grasstains"Bumbershoot" it is.
Oh, we were talking "cabbage night".