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NFT: What do you call the night before Halloween?

adamg : 3/4/2021 11:09 pm
You Jersey people are sick and twisted individuals...  
adamg : 3/4/2021 11:09 pm : link
Where I grew up in Jersey..  
Chris in Philly : 3/4/2021 11:15 pm : link
it was Goosy Night. I don’t know man, I don’t make the rules...
Mischief Night  
Go Terps : 3/4/2021 11:17 pm : link
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Well  
Trainmaster : 3/4/2021 11:24 pm : link
the night before Halloween
October 29th  
montanagiant : 3/4/2021 11:35 pm : link
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Witching Night  
Kev in Cali : 3/4/2021 11:57 pm : link
Since I was just reading/posting about a market thread. : )
RE: October 29th  
Bill in UT : 3/5/2021 12:02 am : link
In comment 15167300 montanagiant said:
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Goosy Night  
JoeyBigBlue : 3/5/2021 12:04 am : link
For me. As a kid I use to egg cars.
RE: October 29th  
Chris in Philly : 3/5/2021 12:15 am : link
In comment 15167300 montanagiant said:
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That’s two nights before Halloween, dummy.
RE: RE: October 29th  
Saquads26 : 3/5/2021 12:33 am : link
In comment 15167309 Bill in UT said:
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That would be 2 nights before
I never heard any name for it  
Matt M. : 3/5/2021 12:52 am : link
until I was an adult and heard kids outside NYC called it Mischief Night
Mischief Night or Doorbell Night  
sb from NYT Forum : 3/5/2021 12:55 am : link
...Westchester NY
Mischief Night or Tick-Tack Night  
jhibb : 3/5/2021 1:05 am : link
Not sure how common the latter is/was in the area, but we had a cornfield across the street and "tic-tacking" houses was part of our tradition.
Cabbage Night  
Pork Chop : 3/5/2021 1:39 am : link
in Park Ridge, NJ when i was a kid
Ok  
Route 9 : 3/5/2021 3:55 am : link
I think we've discussed this a few times on here but... it's Mischief Night. It will always be Mischief Night and nothing else. Ever since the great boom of people surveilling their property security cameras, this has been a thing of the past.

The kids (us) in our town (Little Egg Harbor Township) used to go all out with it. I specifically remember 2001 was the first time ever I woke up on Halloween and there was no vandalism. Maybe my mind is exaggerating the nostalgia but I remember always going through Atlantis Golf Course area because that was always Ground Zero. LOL. Because all the douchebags and teachers lived on that one side.

The best was when someone put detergent or something in the water fountain sign and soap suds were about 5 miles long.

Fuck you time for making me "grow up." Pft.
Cabbage night  
DonQuixote : 3/5/2021 5:17 am : link
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Gate Night  
gmangill : 3/5/2021 6:49 am : link
...
Cabbage Night  
johnnyb : 3/5/2021 6:58 am : link
Hillsdale, NJ is where I grew up.
Goosey Night  
section125 : 3/5/2021 7:05 am : link
NE New Jersey. Some called it Mischief Night, but almost everyone I knew called it Goosey Night.
RE: Ok  
section125 : 3/5/2021 7:07 am : link
In comment 15167333 Route 9 said:
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I think we've discussed this a few times on here but... it's Mischief Night. It will always be Mischief Night and nothing else. Ever since the great boom of people surveilling their property security cameras, this has been a thing of the past.

The kids (us) in our town (Little Egg Harbor Township) used to go all out with it.


That is because you were/are a 609er....
October 30th  
Victor in CT : 3/5/2021 7:42 am : link
.......
RE: Cabbage Night  
mattlawson : 3/5/2021 7:44 am : link
In comment 15167325 Pork Chop said:
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in Park Ridge, NJ when i was a kid


Heard this - upstate NY
Mischief Night or Devil's Night  
rnargi : 3/5/2021 7:47 am : link
In Danbury, CT
RE: Mischief Night or Devil's Night  
Chef : 3/5/2021 8:07 am : link
In comment 15167360 rnargi said:
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In Danbury, CT


This, Devils night in my hometown .. Danbury..
Mischief Night  
Jimmy Googs : 3/5/2021 8:10 am : link
naturally.

What did you all call it...Wednesday?
RE: RE: October 29th  
Jimmy Googs : 3/5/2021 8:12 am : link
In comment 15167314 Chris in Philly said:
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That’s two nights before Halloween, dummy.



classic funny...
CABBAGE NIGHT IN LITTLE FERRY, NJ  
x meadowlander : 3/5/2021 8:30 am : link
Also called that in Fairlawn - I have no idea how Bergen County wound up with this weird take on it. I blame the Jackson Whites!

Growing up in Little Ferry, we would put a tube sock inside of another tube sock, fill it with flour. Steal a few eggs from the fridge, maybe a can of shaving cream.

Our parents would unleash us on the darkness, where we would beat the living shit out of each other for hours.

Halloween Mornings, the sun rose to show busted eggs everywhere, cars soaped and toilet paper hanging from trees like Spanish moss.

I am very grateful that tradition doesn't exist where I live now, but at the same time realize the kids today don't have quite as much fun as my feral generation did.

Also, I can't believe none of you remembered that the day before Halloween is my Wedding Anniversary. Pricks!

RE: Where I grew up in Jersey..  
x meadowlander : 3/5/2021 8:43 am : link
In comment 15167290 Chris in Philly said:
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it was Goosy Night. I don’t know man, I don’t make the rules...
Had a friend who grew up in Pompton Lakes who said they called it that.
Gate Night  
Professor Falken : 3/5/2021 8:56 am : link
No idea why we called it that.
Cabbage Night  
vulcaninvt : 3/5/2021 9:17 am : link
Kids loved it, parents hated it...
Was always known as  
giant power : 3/5/2021 9:17 am : link
CABBAGE night when I was a kid. Our gang of six would go out dressed all in black with an arsenal of eggs, shaving cream and toilet paper. Not many pumpkins survived the ordeal and there were many a messed up mailbox.
We called it hell night  
pjcas18 : 3/5/2021 9:31 am : link
or mischief night, whichever term you used kids knew what you meant.

It was always fun until my Freshman year when I was 14 or 15 years old and the group of friends I was out with got ambushed by the older kids, sort of like a Dazed and Confused moment, but instead of paddling us (which happened too from time to time) they drove by us and sprayed us with food coloring from super soaker squirt guns. At first we didn't realize what happened, it was dark and we thought it was piss or something in the water guns. but then as we moved to lighter areas we could see the colors on our clothes and skin. It takes a while to come off your skin and ruins your clothes.

We deserved it, because we were little assholes but man it sucked at the time

October 30th  
Bramton1 : 3/5/2021 9:34 am : link
Since I moved out of Jersey, and I don't miss it.
Gate Night  
steve in ky : 3/5/2021 9:34 am : link
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Growing up  
Bear vs Shark : 3/5/2021 9:34 am : link
I had no clue mischief night was solely a Jersey thing. Blew my mind when I found out a few years later.

The whole Tennis Shoes vs Sneakers thing was also surprising.

But yeah, OP, I see this reddit post also haha
RE: RE: October 29th  
Brown_Hornet : 3/5/2021 9:38 am : link
In comment 15167314 Chris in Philly said:
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That’s two nights before Halloween, dummy.
HA!
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SFGFNCGiantsFan : 3/5/2021 9:39 am : link
October 30th, though I know people call it 'Mischief night' due to Jersey familial ties.
don't call it anything  
Greg from LI : 3/5/2021 9:41 am : link
We confined our shenanigans to Halloween, as civilized people do.
Growing up in Manhattan it wasn't anything,  
Mad Mike : 3/5/2021 9:46 am : link
but one year I was a friend's house in NJ, and it was Cabbage Night.
one  
pjcas18 : 3/5/2021 9:53 am : link
clarification to my story, I grew up in CT and we had it there too, not just a Jersey thing.
grew up in Passiac county  
japanhead : 3/5/2021 9:57 am : link
and it was called goosey night
Mischief Night or Devil's Night  
rnargi : 3/5/2021 10:06 am : link
Danbury, CT in the mid to late 70s
cabbage night  
GiantsLaw : 3/5/2021 10:23 am : link
eggs n shaving cream
RE: one  
Greg from LI : 3/5/2021 10:33 am : link
In comment 15167467 pjcas18 said:
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clarification to my story, I grew up in CT and we had it there too, not just a Jersey thing.


If you look closely at that map, there's a little spot of blue in the southwestern corner of CT.
Mischief Night  
Saquads26 : 3/5/2021 10:57 am : link
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Cabbage Night  
vulcaninvt : 3/5/2021 11:06 am : link
Kids loved it, parents hated it...
grew up on LI  
Enzo : 3/5/2021 11:10 am : link
and we never had a name for it, nor did anything big happen that night.
RE: grew up on LI  
Victor in CT : 3/5/2021 11:27 am : link
In comment 15167531 Enzo said:
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and we never had a name for it, nor did anything big happen that night.


Yup. Me too. Just October 30 to us.
Mischief Night in Jersey City  
JerseyCityJoe : 3/5/2021 12:48 pm : link
Never heard it called anything else. That name sure lived up to its billing. It was glorious.
In my part of Long Island  
Pete in MD : 3/5/2021 12:54 pm : link
we called it mischief night but not always. Although, I don’t think it had a name until my early teens. Maybe it trickled over from New Jersey.
RE: Gate Night  
Johnny5 : 3/5/2021 1:02 pm : link
In comment 15167344 gmangill said:
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Yep Gate night
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Route 9 : 3/5/2021 1:42 pm : link
My mom is from Bergen County and kept calling it Cabbage Night when I was younger.

In the late 90s, once the cops started to monitor the streets around here every Oct 30th, we just did all our mischievous activities on Halloween night when trick or treating was over.

I got extra aggressive in 1998 after the Halloween Havoc pay-per-view.
Oh Route 9, you old coot.  
Route 9 : 3/5/2021 1:53 pm : link
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RE: Grew up in northern NJ
Route 9 : 10/31/2020 2:09 pm : link
In comment 15029979 BillT said:
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Called it cabbage night. It became mischief night later on.


It was always Mischief Night, it's just North Jersey tends to have stupid names for everything.
Mischief Night in North Jersey  
ChathamMark : 3/5/2021 8:15 pm : link
was crazy back then (70's). Trees totally covered in toilet paper, and the only time in my life where the supermarket sold eggs in 3 - dozen packs. Now, hardly anything goes on.
RE: Mischief Night in North Jersey  
Route 9 : 3/5/2021 8:34 pm : link
In comment 15167979 ChathamMark said:
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was crazy back then (70's). Trees totally covered in toilet paper, and the only time in my life where the supermarket sold eggs in 3 - dozen packs. Now, hardly anything goes on.


Because kids today are boring losers with their heads in their smart phones and wearing their fat burger pants watching Netflix 17 hours a day.
Mischief Night  
GruningsOnTheHill : 3/6/2021 1:31 pm : link
Grew up in NJ/Essex County
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