A few days after Halloween, Sally came home with a bad report card.
Her mother asked why her grades were so low.
Sally answered, "Because everything is marked down after holidays!"
All things on earth point home in old October: sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.
- Thomas Wolfe
In M&M candies, the letters stand for Mars and Murrie, the developers of the candy in 1941.