Trick or Read!

Written by John Cow on October 31st, 2007

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Looks like someone is playing tricks rather than treats on us this year’s halloween day! The RSS subscribers number of 666 is not a trick, it’s someone bodivine with a twisted sense of humor we guess. We’d like to thank Sergio from SOS factory for editing our header a bit to go with today’s theme.

Which one of you knows where halloween comes from and why it makes us all dress up like scary things? buzzzzzz! Time’s up. No peeking on Google allowed.

Halloween is a pre-Christ pagan holiday that was called Samhain, originating from good old Ireland. It’s a celebration because its the end of summer. Not that we had any summer here in Eire, but hey, its the thought that counts.
So what’s with all the dressing up as monsters? Back then, the festival of the dead, as Samhain was known too, led people to believe that the undead and a bunch of other monsters roamed the night on Halloween. In order to avoid getting attacked by one of them, people started dressing themselves up as monsters too so they’d be left alone if a real one passed by. If you can’t beat them, join them! That’s why we used to dress up like evil John Chow. We’re big cows now and not afraid of the dark anymore!

PS: We’d like to thank Roberta Ferguson for doing up one of our ads without us even asking for it, and Hyder (yes again, that guy gets way too many plugs!) for helping out getting the Halloween header just right :twisted:
Today is also the last day you can enter our Pimp Your Blog contest. If you want to get your blog pimped for free, we suggest you stop counting your candy and start writing your contest entry!

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23 Comments »

Comment by great008
2007-10-31 15:03:16

Cool header and i wanna win a new makeover :(. Keep up the good work cowman!

 
Comment by Scam
2007-10-31 15:39:39

Who’s the girl underneath your car???

 
Comment by Vincent Chow
2007-10-31 16:32:49

Nice header you have there, creative. Just drop by from my Goggle Reader to have a look at it.

 
Comment by Roberta
2007-10-31 17:05:00

Glad you liked the image, your site has such a spiffy design :)

 
Comment by Ritu
2007-10-31 17:06:29

awesome header, Scarryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

 
2007-10-31 17:08:07

Nice header, indeed. To be honest I didn’t know about sosfactory I think I will give them a try at one point since I was asking myself who designed your mascot.

 
Comment by charles
2007-10-31 17:14:58

Yeah, I wonder also Who’s that girl underneath your car? :???:

cool header you got there Sir Cow. :) Happy Halloween to all.

 
Comment by The Monetizer
2007-10-31 17:55:58

Happy Halloween..love the Scream theme! I’m going to check out the blog makeover contest now, sounds like it could be worth the write up…

 
Comment by Rhys
2007-10-31 20:19:18

Which ad did she do?

Do rather like the header actually. Rather cool, though alas you can only use it for one day a year (much better going for a Christmas one ;))

 
Comment by Indra Diky
2007-10-31 20:52:00

Happy Halloween! I like the header, wish that you keep it that way. Heuheuheu

 
Comment by WP Themes Gallery
2007-10-31 21:50:21

Nice banner, Cow. I just checked SOS factory and I like their work.

 
Comment by James Wilcox
2007-10-31 22:46:18

I love the banner. Wonder what yer gonna do for Thanksgiving…oh wait, you don’t celebrate that in the Emerald Isles do ya? One of these days I’ll get a really cool new web theme but i like what I’ve got going right now.

 
Comment by Danielle
2007-11-01 02:45:40

Great Halloween header - very gruesome.

 
Comment by Angel
2007-11-01 03:01:57

Header looks freakin’ cool.

 
Comment by Forest Parks Subscribed to comments via email
2007-11-01 04:37:31

Forget the girl!! Is that Strawberry milk?……. mmmmmm I hope so.

Interesting Halloween history, I hope it’s true.

 
Comment by The Rookie
2007-11-01 05:21:06

Dude,

Nice Halloween header, I really like SOS’s work. The RSS thing is kind off creepy I have to admit.

 
Comment by Joyce Babu
2007-11-01 09:13:40

That is really nice header. Good work SOS Factory.

 
Comment by Making The Money
2007-11-01 10:37:14

I think we can claim the award for first to dress up on the 31st October

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hop-tu-Naa

:twisted:

 
Comment by Indra Diky
2007-11-01 12:28:11

waitng for free blog makeover winner announcement

 
Comment by charles
2007-11-01 15:21:16

who might be that lucky blogger to win a free blog makeover. congrats in advance. :smile:

 
Comment by Fatgadget
2007-11-01 17:43:54

Haha cool header :twisted:

 
Comment by Bubs
2007-11-02 00:58:46

Great work on the new header, I really like it

 
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