Generally speaking, the whole point of adult masquerades is that you get to do something that you don't normally do.

Generally speaking, bishops are generally speaking.

There was a mystery here; there was a mystery in the black cats and walking skeletons and living scarecrows that we saw decorating school windows, mystery in the grinning gargoyles and jack-o-laterns on all the porches. I loved Halloween.

That 'I cannot tell a lie' has almost become a proverb. It's something that turns the patriarch of our country into a mythical figure.

People might want to shy away from being the ax murderer. Gore is still seen as unacceptable. Adults are hoping to break the rules and do a little wish fulfillment.

In some parts of Europe, they'd look for bears.