Wednesday, November 01, 2006

 

Yet Another Halloween Fiasco



I wish I could say that my Halloween costume ("Inappropriate Bear") worked out really well, but it all ended badly. Next year, I'm just going to go ahead and dress as Bob Seger.

# posted by Mark Osler @ 11:56 AM
Comments:
I think you owe it to us to explain why it went badly, given that you went as "inappropriate bear"
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : 1:21 PM
 
Well, obviously, I was attacked by a giant Quaker. Which is kind of ironic-- some "pacifists" they turned out to be.
# posted by Blogger Mark Osler : 1:57 PM
 
ah yes, I see now, the Quaker is, he's attacking you because you are singing...right???
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : 4:12 PM
 
Is it true that you yourself kind of looked like a colonial Quaker yourself which agitated the real Quaker who attacked you? I mean, what does "inappropriate bear" really look like anyway?
# posted by Blogger The Medievalist : 4:14 PM
 
Your fascination with mascots is starting to scare me a little. I will say that the Dallas Cowboys' cowboy freaked me out a little when I went to a game at Texas Stadium a few years ago.

He had this weird creepy, Chucky-like grin that never went away.
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : 4:32 PM
 
Some fighting Quakers in history:

Henry Knox: Revolutionary general, GW right-hand man and first Secretary of War; he was a Quaker.

A. Mitchell Palmer: Woodrow Wilson's AG; presided over the Red Scare of 1919; the John Ashcoroft of his day; he was a Quaker.
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : 9:03 PM
 
Waco Farmer- You are my history hero.

I actually met a Quaker who was a navy admiral at the Cherry Street Meeting in Philadelphia. Pacifism is a tradition, but not a doctrine, for Quakers. They have a wide variety of individual beliefs regarding war.
# posted by Blogger Mark Osler : 12:14 AM
 
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