Sometime in the summer you'd start thinking about what might be the coolest costume ever.
Maybe a pirate or vampire? Superman or Batman? A hobo. A witch or the Frankenstein monster? Something cool. Sometimes your Mom would help you make the costume. Halloween was the best.
Except for the douchebag parents who made their kid dress up as a German Shepard. You know and I know that this kid got his ass kicked.
Often.
I think my favorite Halloween costume was the year I went dressed as a cursive Q. It was awesome.
ReplyDeleteHey, an Ace the Bathound mask! Awesome!
ReplyDeleteOn an unrelated topic, I tried making brownies with popcorn baked in yesterday. Husband thought the idea was idiotic, but nonetheless ate more than his fair share.
The concensus is that it's not a bad concept, but the popcorn gets too soft and doesn't retain a nice crunch.
The next experiment: pretzels!
Dear Lois,
ReplyDeleteMy wife thinks it will work with Fiddle Faddle, Cracker Jacks, Crunch and Munch, or possibly Yellow Screaming Zonkers. She thinks regular popcorn would get too soggy.
(We're now do freakin' cookin' shows on NOOPRAH....Snakes on a Plane)
Comin' by this blog makes me feel positively sane.
ReplyDeleteWonderful.
Crunch and Munch...now *that's* a good idea. Though snakes baked into brownies, I dunno about that. Maybe if you soaked the snakes in scotch first...
ReplyDeleteAhhhh....I fondly remember the Halloween that I went out dressed in my Ben Cooper Barnaby Jones cstume and mask.
ReplyDeleteIn 1962 I went out as a fat-headed, coke using, bad-backing,message-on-a-coconut-sending,womanizer, JFK. My dad pushed me around the neighborhood in a rocking chair. Not much fun.
ReplyDeleteBut JFK was HERO! He wrote on coconuts and won the war. He was a profile in courage! He stared down Khrushchev! He playe touch football! He tied a sweater around his neck! John JR saluted him!
ReplyDeleteSnakes On A Plane.
One year I went as a coconut and some bastard wrote on my costume.
ReplyDeleteIt sucked.
SOAP...
Must have been JFK.
ReplyDeleteHe was the only one ever deemed a hero for writing on a coconut.
I think he killed Hitler with said coconut.
Snakes on a Plane.
I thought Hitler died when his plane went down? You know, after all those snakes got loose...
ReplyDeleteNo?
Oh.
There were Snakes on Hitler's Plane?
ReplyDeleteI believe that would be "Snakes on the Entire Luftwaffe."
ReplyDeleteLove the costume nooprah-you dog you!
mmmm pretzels with popcorn in them...
ReplyDeleteMac Mahon the Irishman
ReplyDeleteWas burned so badly he couldn't swim.
"Leave me here, go on" he said
"'Cause if you don't you'll all be dead."
The PT skipper couldn't leave him
A man to die alone at sea
So with a strap between his teeth
He towed the Irishman to the beach.
Smoke and fire upon the sea
Everywhere the looked was the enemy
The heathen gods of old Japan
Thought they had the best of a mighty good man.
...but ya know
It's hard to get the best
Of a man named John
Big John
Big bad Jooohhhn
Big John
~From "PT 109", a hit record by Jimmy Dean, around 1962.