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graveyard of DOOM index < | > Now, don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that colon cancer is funny. I'm not one of those below-the-belt-and-above-the-knees-equals-automatically-hilarious people. But what is funny is seeing a grown man dressed as a colon polyp.
Right now
millions of men are calling up their doctors to make sure that
they don't have a whole bunch of bright red overweight nerds
inside their anal passages. But not only is he dressed as a colon
polyp, he's dressed as a bad colon polyp. See, he's in a lineup
- get it? He broke the law. He's bad news. Other "observations" I can't resist: 1) When a basketball team's lion mascot's costume stinks of sweat, it's just kind of "ew", but when your colon polyp costume starts to smell like B.O., that's way too evocative for words. 2) Do you think there's a really big guy out there somewhere dressed like a colon? What would a colon costume even look like? 3) There's very little brand-recognition going on here. This photo is taken from a poster that makes it clear from the captioning that the guy is a colon polyp. What happens when he's out on the streets doing face-to-face promotion? "Look honey, it's a jellybean!" The thing that strikes me the most about this photo is that I feel like I've seen that guy somewhere before...
Oh, yeah. Now I remember.
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