# Would You Buy These Halloween Costumes For YOUR Kids?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-buy-these-halloween-costumes-for-your-kids/261642>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [August 26, 2004, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-buy-these-halloween-costumes-for-your-kids/261642 "2004-08-26T18:08:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2004, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-buy-these-halloween-costumes-for-your-kids/261642/61 "2004-08-28T05:57:45Z")

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> [@Necro Romancer](#):
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> See, you use your pimphand (dominant hand) to bitchslap (or pimpslap) the ho. You have to keep her in line. Pimpin’ aint easy, folks.

That’s right folks. Now watch me slap around my bitch, Necro.

😛😃

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**Author:** ![Necro\_Romancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/50afbb/32.png) [@Necro\_Romancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Necro_Romancer)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2004, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-buy-these-halloween-costumes-for-your-kids/261642/62 "2004-08-28T07:09:41Z")

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I’m not worthy of such a distinguished backhand.

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**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2004, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-buy-these-halloween-costumes-for-your-kids/261642/63 "2004-08-28T22:03:35Z")

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> [@Necro Romancer](#):
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> I’m not worthy of such a distinguished backhand.

Okay, not **that** really _deserves_ a hand.

You’ll be Tina and I’ll be Ike.

😉😛😃

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**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2004, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-buy-these-halloween-costumes-for-your-kids/261642/64 "2004-08-29T18:04:56Z")

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Getting back to the original complaint about the costumes themselves. The Ho looks more like a 1920s flapper to me. The Pimp reminds me of a cartoon character or maybe a low rent Hamburglar. I don’t like the dark colors for purely safety reasons. I can just imagine some car driver saying “I didn’t see them”, well you know that would be too likely, at night in a dark costume. As for the Tarzan costumes, they are out - northern states get too cold to let your little boy run loose in a little loincloth (if that’s all it is), and it might attract what we call chickenhawks. But kids have always dressed up like the bad guys for Halloween - Billy the Kid style gunfighters, Darth Vader (bad at night for the visibility reasons), pirates, Frankenstein’s monster, Dracula, the Devil, etc. There is no harm in it, it’s just one night of the year, and it will not bring your kid over to the Dark Side. The best thing to do is let your kids pick their own costumes, have a little fun, and keep an eye on them from a safe but reasonable distance.

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**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2004, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-buy-these-halloween-costumes-for-your-kids/261642/65 "2004-08-30T13:09:09Z")

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World Nut Daily is an embarassment even to most people on the right wing. :rolleyes:

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