Jack Skellington - a fictional character and the main protagonist of the motion picture Tim Burton's, The Nightmare Before Christmas. Jack Skellington is a skeleton known as the "Pumpkin King" of Halloween Town, a fictional world oriented solely on the holiday of Halloween. Normally, he is dressed in a black suit with thin white stripes and a bowtie designed to look like a bat. He was based on the legend of "Jack the pumpkin king."
He has a pet ghost dog named Zero. A zombie-like rag doll named Sally is his love interest. In the film, he inadvertently finds his way into Christmas Town and becomes infatuated with the holiday, bringing it back to Halloween Town for its denizens to partake in. However, not really understanding the "point" of Christmas, they twist it into a celebration of the macabre rather than a season to be jolly, effectively ruining Christmas.
Happy Halloween! 
Halloween is a tradition celebrated on the night of October 31, most notably by children dressing in costumes and going door-to-door collecting sweets, fruit, and other treats. It is celebrated in parts of the Western world, most commonly in the United States, Canada, the UK, Ireland, Puerto Rico, and with increasing popularity in Australia, New Zealand, as well as the Philippines. Halloween originated as a Pagan festival among the Celts of Ireland and Great Britain with Irish, Scots, Welsh and other immigrants transporting versions of the tradition to North America in the 19th century. Most other Western countries have embraced Halloween as a part of American pop culture in the late 20th century.
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
October 31 - This IS Halloween!
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