Happy Thanksgiving! Suppose you are reading this blog on the day it goes out. In that case, you must be hiding from family members asking when you are going to get married, have a baby, get a new job, finish your degree, convert to their religion of choice, stop drinking, start drinking, read their script, shave your goatee, or visit them in St. Louis. To you, I say, good luck!
To distract you from family that you love but don’t like (great song by Paul Thorn about that very topic here), here is an unscientific, made-up by me list of the 5 weirdest balloons in the history of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
1. Start your holiday season off with terrified crying children (good warm up for that visit to the mall Santa) with this balloon of Underdog.
2. For those of us who don’t believe baseball players are especially athletic, just dudes who stand around a lot and spit, here is proof. Harold the Baseball Player in 1946.
3. Superman after getting the complete Real Housewives cosmetic surgery package.
4. I’m sure there is something cool and arty here that I’m not sophisticated enough to understand, but this is a family event. The psyches of little kids should be considered.
5. And last, if scaring the kids wasn’t enough fun, how about bringing this nightmare to two-story life for parents? Literally, it’s called The Colicky Kid from the 1933 parade.
That’s all I got. Time to go back to your Uncle Mervin mansplaining menopause to a room full of women. Gobble, gobble!
