So the Nutleys have started their list of “how to live outside instead of die inside”.
Anyone want to suggest other things that they might have gleaned from a day at The OutdoorFest?
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All the stuff that worries people about statues…
Somebody had to spend a lot of time carving those things.
Anatomically correct statues of nudes or animals that now make people giggle and blush… did they make the people who spent hours and hours shaping various stone erogenous zones laugh too?
Not if their laughter was going to make a chisel slip and crack off something that was going to be conspicuous by its absence, I bet. Try explaining THAT to the boss. “We had to start over, ’cause, well… uh…”
Seems to me that Orc costumes would turn up at conventions more often.
I mean, sure, they play their part in the movie ‘Paul’, but I don’t usually see Orcs in non-movie real-life conventions.
You could do various kinds… the kind that used to be painted by the Hildebrandt brothers for all those Tolkien calendars, or Frazetta type paintings, or the kind from the Rankin-Bass TV shows, or the ones from the Ralph Bakshi Lord Of The Rings movie. Or you could do the kinds of Orcs that the various toy soldier companies used to make out of lead and sell to all of us who liked to get eyestrain while painting tiny, tiny Orcs. Or you could do the Peter Jackson movie Orcs if you wanted to. Any way you choose to do them, Orcs. Man, what a costume.
This is how Green Arrow’s powers ought to work in the comic book. He shouldn’t be shooting arrows- he’s a superhero! He should BE the arrow! Bad guys robbing banks? No problem, here comes Green Arrow in his pointy hat, shooting in through the bank vault door and imbedding himself into the head bad guy, KA-CHUNK!
Mascot costumes limit your senses.
The very few times I’ve worn such things (I’ve only ever built one costume) I couldn’t see, and I couldn’t use my hands to do much more than wave or make rude gestures… much less take the mask off myself. A nice periscope system in there would have been a nice thing. And a fan.
I’ve known two professional mascots and a few amateurs who’re good at it. They don’t seem to have many problems with the costumes… firing T-Shirt cannons and jumping off mini-trampolines to do backflips while slam-dunking basketballs…
… come to think of it like that, it was probably just me and my lousy costume design that caused the issues I’m making fun of in today’s cartoon.
And it’s the Return Of Scoffy!
He scoffs at your opinion that he would not return.
I built a costume once. I may have mentioned it before. I have two friends that do amazing costume stuff, like for comic conventions and zombie walks and stuff. I was tired of being done up like Freddy Krueger, so I did my very best on one single, no-holds-barred costume.
And, as with a first attempt on anything, it had it’s drawbacks.
Primary among the drawbacks was the fact that little or no body heat could escape that suit. It was a hotbox. Once, I lost four pounds of ‘water weight’ while wearing it.
All this to say: What do you suppose the inside of Bud’s costume smells like now?
The mascot smackdown is hotting up with some wild Mascot-On-Drunk-Mascot action!
So- if you went to a boxing match, and the bell rings on the first round, and there’s some kind of heavier-than-air gas that’s been released into the room, which only the boxers are standing tall enough on the ring to breathe, and they both succumb to it and pass out as they move toward one another the first time, thereby both achieving ten counts simultaneously… the scoring is going to be difficult. As absurd as all that would be, the scoring on slackline kickboxing would, I believe, be just as difficult.
Also, it’s my brother’s birthday! Happy Birthday! Didn’t you used to be younger than me?
