Gracie Hunt Trolled For Kobe Pics, Joe Biden Chomps On Fake Ice Cream, Best Halloween Costumes, Dead Bodies & Beer Bongs
Happy Halloween, you ghouls!
It's the spookiest night of the year, and I hope you're all ready to celebrate accordingly. I know it's Tuesday, but live a little. Hit the bars in your costume, TP some houses, knock on some doors and demand candy!
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Personally, I'll be kicking back with some brews and watching the World Series with the porch light off — as to avoid the trick-or-treaters. Nothing personal, kiddos, but I have a 14-year-old grumpy dog who hates children and also doesn't take kindly to the doorbell ringing every couple of minutes.
Besides, I already celebrated Halloween by frightening Emmanuel Acho.
I do enjoy this holiday, though. I think of it as a pre-game for the Christmas season. The costumes, the decor, the spooky witches, ghosts, skeletons and spiders!
Side note: Spiders are so cool. Unless it's a brown recluse, I'm the type of person who carries spiders out of my house instead of squishing them. My husband, though, is the opposite.
Just the other day I saw this enormous field spider crawling on my living room wall. He was too high up to reach, and I told him, "You better find a place to hide before my husband gets home or he's going to kill you!"
It then occurred to me if someone had my house bugged they'd surely think I was having an affair and not talking to a spider.
Wow, what a tangent that was. Anyway, here's a live look at me in just a few hours.
But until then, it's time for some spooky Nightcaps.
I already know you aren't doing anything at work today, anyway. So close your laptops, grab a cold one and let's get rolling!
Dead Body Or Beer Bong?
It's truly the age-old question.
Seriously, though, authorities in Washington State fell victim to a hilarious Halloween prank last week when they got a report of human remains spotted by paddle boarders inside of a cave on the Pend Oreille River.
And they sent the whole cavalry: A Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife police officer, a Pend Oreille detective and a border patrol agent hopped on their jet-skis and rode back to the scene to investigate.
"What appeared to be a skull could be seen at the bottom inside the cave, so Officer Erickson dove down to get a closer look using goggles some kind boaters had loaned the officers," the WDWF wrote on Facebook.
Fortunately, what they found were not the remains of some poor murdered vacationer.
The skull was actually part of a plastic beer bong that someone had stuffed full of rocks to look like a skeleton. Duped! But at least they were good sports about it.
Next, the officers hopped on a passing pontoon, grabbed a sixer of Miller Lites and chugged them through the plastic spinal cord.
OK, I made that last part up. But they could have. We really don't know for sure.
Joe Biden Is Joe Biden-ing Again
We all know Joe Biden loves ice cream. Chocolate ice cream, vanilla ice cream... fake ice cream?
Joe Biden and the First Lady welcomed trick-or-treaters to the White House Monday, and a small child tricked the leader of the free world into taking a bite of a toy ice cream cone.
Hey, maybe the ice cream cone didn't actually appear fake?
Let's take a closer look!
Confirmed. A toddler dressed as the ice cream man fooled the President of the United States.
OK OK, I won't be a total asshole. Even senile ol' Joe had to know that ice cream cone wasn't real, and he was likely just playing along.
But why put it in your mouth? Weirdo.
Also, sharing this photo just because it made me laugh.
Gracie Hunt Gets Trolled For Kobe Bryant Outfit
To celebrate the NBA's return, Kansas City Chiefs heiress Gracie Hunt did a photoshoot wearing nothing but a Kobe Bryant jersey and a pair of stilettos.
"Mindset is everything... make it Mamba," she wrote.
While Gracie probably thought she was just being cute and inspirational, social media was quick to call her out.
After all, no one wants to be lectured about "mindset" by someone who was born into billions and is famous only for being hot.
Was Gracie's post an innocent tribute? Or was it self-indulgent and borderline disrespectful?
I'm leaning toward the latter. But I'm also not going to lose any sleep over it.
Now, I know Gracie's Kobe jersey wasn't technically a Halloween costume, but given how close it was to the holiday, it kind of felt like one.
And not a Halloween goes by that I don't re-watch and laugh at "Girls's Costume Warehouse."
For you youngins out there, this was a video that went viral on YouTube in 2006 — before viral videos were much of a thing. That was back when you couldn't just post your costume on Instagram to get a million likes. You actually had to go outside.
Anyway, please watch. And ignore the grainy video quality that your ancestors once had to endure.
Sexy mustard! Sexy Abe Lincoln! And sexy... Kobe?
Let's take a look at some more Halloween get-ups.
Some Halloween Costumes I Liked
That was OutKick editor Matt Wiley, by the way.
And here's Joe Burrow.
Spooky Stuff That Made Me LOL
You know I'm coming in hot with the Halloween dog videos.
Same energy.
Welcome to the neighborhood!
I'm a dork, so this stuff is funny to me.
On a related note, if you didn't see Saturday Night Live over the weekend, you need to watch this immediately. I was snort laughing at (Nashville's own!) Nate Bargatze's George Washington skit.
Back to Halloween. On this episode of "real or parody?"...
This actually isn't a Halloween costume. He just identifies as a Merman.
Also, if anyone can find the actual video he's recording in there, please send it my way immediately.
He'll figure it out.
The baseball team at Arizona State University held its annual costume scrimmage Monday. This is unhinged, and I love it so much.
Every team should be required to play a Halloween game.
I don't own that barn, by the way. But remember it's only trespassing if somebody's chasing you with a shotgun.
Y'all be safe out there.
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