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It's costumes like these that remind you to start thinking of ideas early.
Halloween is a strange holiday. It should be obvious why I think this: on this one day per year, we are allowed to hang skeletons from the rafters and make jokes about dead bodies and serial killers. Then, the next day, we have to clean it all up and never mention death ever again, except with reverence, and even then, we usually have to reduce our volume to a whisper, lest the sacred passed away be offended by our notice of their absence. But on Halloween, wow! We can do whatever we want with dead bodies, even make them into pencil boxes. I don’t get it. But apparently, some people do. So here’s a costume round-up for you freaks out there.
- Cat in a lobster suit, boiling in a lobster pot Why even bother with the pretense of a costume? Why not just boil the kitty? Or better yet, why not just burn the kitty for fuel, like the Swedes are doing with wild rabbits?
- Kid in a large port-a-potty, taking a dump. You know what’s funnier than poop? A kid pretending to poop! You know what’s funnier than a kid pretending to poop? That instead of punishing the kid for thinking of this idea, they actually helped him make the costume.
Child Molester CostumeAdult-Sized Super Mario Costume. Yeah, yeah, I know the video game. I played it for years. But if you enlarge Mario into the size of a regular adult, you move beyond the realm of lovable pixelated game icon and into the realm of child molester. And there are much less expensive ways to dress up as a child molester.- Blogger Halloween Costumes. I don’t know what to say about this. Except — no, I’m not going to do it. It’s would be like shooting fish in a barrel.
- Dog being ingested by a crocodile on the streets of New York. If you feel this way about your dog, it might be time to look into another kind of pet for yourself. Like a rock.
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Weird costumes. The cat in that first picture looks like “wtf??” As for death, I’m Catholic & the having the dead around (or images of it) are pretty much par for the course year round. Same goes for the whole good v. evil imagery. We also do the party style wakes & visit graves year round of loved ones. Still not the same as the odd stuff you see just on Halloween. And lobster cats–I don’t believe we have a Saint for that, but I’ll have to check