jimmy35
31st October 2006, 09:00
Poor taste or not ?
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,20675215-663,00.html
Irwin costumes make for bad taste Halloween
BAD taste Steve Irwin costumes, which include a bloody stingray barb attached to a khaki shirt, are among the top Halloween costumes in the US this year.
The macabre outfits have split Americans, with some condemning the costumes while others find them amusing.
At least one US celebrity, comedian Bill Maher, has donned the Crocodile Hunter outfit.
Photos of Maher at a Halloween party in Los Angeles on the weekend dressed in khaki shorts and shirt with a bloody barb hanging out of his chest are circulating the internet.
The comedian, who has a weekly talk show on the HBO TV network, has outraged some of his fans.
"I suppose he thought it was funny, but it was seriously lacking taste, decorum and respect for Steve's family," a Maher fan wrote on a blog on the comedian's official website.
"Kids and grown-ups alike will stare you down with white-hot horror when you strut around in your khaki ensemble with a p---ed off sea creature piercing your chest," the article's authors, Cheryl Eddy and Kimberly Chun, wrote.
"Too soon? Hell, no.
"If Irwin's eight-year-old can get her own Discovery Kids television show, you can certainly make sport of her nature-loving pop's freaky demise.
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,20675215-663,00.html
Irwin costumes make for bad taste Halloween
BAD taste Steve Irwin costumes, which include a bloody stingray barb attached to a khaki shirt, are among the top Halloween costumes in the US this year.
The macabre outfits have split Americans, with some condemning the costumes while others find them amusing.
At least one US celebrity, comedian Bill Maher, has donned the Crocodile Hunter outfit.
Photos of Maher at a Halloween party in Los Angeles on the weekend dressed in khaki shorts and shirt with a bloody barb hanging out of his chest are circulating the internet.
The comedian, who has a weekly talk show on the HBO TV network, has outraged some of his fans.
"I suppose he thought it was funny, but it was seriously lacking taste, decorum and respect for Steve's family," a Maher fan wrote on a blog on the comedian's official website.
"Kids and grown-ups alike will stare you down with white-hot horror when you strut around in your khaki ensemble with a p---ed off sea creature piercing your chest," the article's authors, Cheryl Eddy and Kimberly Chun, wrote.
"Too soon? Hell, no.
"If Irwin's eight-year-old can get her own Discovery Kids television show, you can certainly make sport of her nature-loving pop's freaky demise.