Friday, July 28, 2006

Halloween

Do you remember when you were a kid and you couldn't wait for Halloween?

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.

15 comments:

Cake said...

I think my favorite Halloween costume was the year I went dressed as a cursive Q. It was awesome.

Lois Lane said...

Hey, an Ace the Bathound mask! Awesome!

On 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!

I Ain't No Oprah said...

Dear Lois,

My 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)

Cake said...

Comin' by this blog makes me feel positively sane.

Wonderful.

Lois Lane said...

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...

Anonymous said...

Ahhhh....I fondly remember the Halloween that I went out dressed in my Ben Cooper Barnaby Jones cstume and mask.

Anonymous said...

In 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.

I Ain't No Oprah said...

But 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!

Snakes On A Plane.

Cake said...

One year I went as a coconut and some bastard wrote on my costume.

It sucked.

SOAP...

I Ain't No Oprah said...

Must have been JFK.

He 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.

Cake said...

I thought Hitler died when his plane went down? You know, after all those snakes got loose...

No?

Oh.

I Ain't No Oprah said...

There were Snakes on Hitler's Plane?

Anonymous said...

I believe that would be "Snakes on the Entire Luftwaffe."

Love the costume nooprah-you dog you!

Clinky said...

mmmm pretzels with popcorn in them...

Anonymous said...

Mac Mahon the Irishman
Was 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.