While I don't do AS much for Halloween these days, I'm still a fan of the holiday. It's hard to give up something I had as a favorite pastime while growing up. However, it's more apparent these days how costumes aren't that innocent. I have always found it amusing how anything can be a costume if you add the word "sexy" to it, at least for women. I thought about this concept again when I read about an older woman whose nickname was "Naughty Granny." (I'm not even joking here.) I thought, "Hey, Nick would sell that costume at his store." That made me think of the "commercial" for Nick's Girls's Costumes, which features a stereotypical New Jersey guy who looks like a younger version of Ed O'Neill (a.k.a. Al Bundy), trying to sell all sorts of costumes by adding the word "sexy" to them. It's so funny and you can see it right here! I think my favorite one was "sexy Abraham Lincoln."
My subject line make me think of when my friend and I performed at Showcase '92 (talent show at our high school) together. She was dressed as a cat and did an interpretive dance with a real cat to a T.S. Eliot poem I was reading....about cats, of course. While we were waiting to go on, she would say "trick?...or treat...." while twirling her tail during the "treat" part.
I know Halloween is a little over a month away, but I'm taking some time off from "Funny Friday" because of all the holidays I do go all out to celebrate these days. And maybe by the time Purim comes around, I'll have a good costume idea again. (I'm not sure that it will be anything "sexy" though...that wouldn't go over too well at my shul!)
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