Halloween treat

Strangely enough, I didn’t catch the irony until just now, as my first- and sixth-graders ran outside to catch the carpool.

Johnny Boy

First grader=John McCain

Abdul

Sixth grader=jihadist Afghani

23 comments for “Halloween treat

  1. Gee, Teancum, that’s easy. The Afghani isn’t carrying an AK-47. (Which is what the sixth-grader wanted to carry. An air-soft version, of course.)

    Hey, I talked him out of going in blackface as Obama. (Meaning, I utterly forbade him.) This was no small victory.

    Plus, I learned how to wrap a turban.

  2. Hmmm. I get why the McCain costume might be horrifying. And, I get why a jihadist costume might be be horrifying. But why is an Afghani costume horrifying?

  3. Teancum,

    Maybe spend more time thinking about why a jihadist costume *might* be horrifying and you’ll figure it out. I’ll give you a hint: jihadist and Afghani are not interchangeable.

  4. “jihadist and Afghani are not interchangeable.”

    I think that’s exactly what Teancum was saying. And he’s right, there’s nothing horrifying about an Afghani costume, unless he’s carrying the latest harvest from his poppy fields.

  5. I guess the jihadist cross-out just threw me off. I didn’t realize they were complex costumes that alluded to a foreign policy critique.

  6. Wow. 12 Grader go as a check mark on prop 8? Or maybe as the Fonz? This is an interesting discussion. Today I went to work as an engineer. My son is a big winnie the pooh (moms have all the fun when the kids are under 4, I reckon).

  7. 10th grader=some Manga character whose name I can’t spell.

    Morianton, it wasn’t planned–that’s why it was so funny. And if 6th-grader could’ve talked me into his jihadist plan, it would’ve been even funnier.

    Wondering what you and Teancum are wearing tonight. Let’s see . . . Morianton . . . a wife-beater undershirt? No, wait, that was your maidservant.

    Teancum . . . other than the javelin, I’m at a loss.

  8. I now understand KLS’ ironic moment. I still don’t see why Steve thinks Afghanis are horrifying. And Morianton’s comment # 7 completely evades me.

  9. Thanks, T. I’m durn proud of that turban.

    Said one neighbor to 6th grader: “Are you Osama, or Obama?”

    Given that fact that I was wearing a Tinky Winky suit, I had a hard time producing a truly convincing glare.

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