Friday 30 October 2009

Let it glow, let it glow, let it glow!


Aye there seems to be a wee bit o' a theme developing here over the last few posts, all about glow in the dark stuff and Halloween. A good combination if you ask me.


I remember the time that a gang of us were mucking aboot one time, back in the day, around Halloween. It was dark and yon orange street lights were illuminating Clerk Street. We had managed to get free glow in the dark cardboard masks free with The Topper or it might have been The Beezer. The mask was the face of one of the comic character a dude called Splurge Last of The Goblins.


The glow in the dark paint on the masks was pretty cheap stuff and when you touched it, it almost felt like running yer finger along a piece of fine sandpaper. Anyway, we were standing outside the Southern Bar with oor masks on scaring the auld drunks as they left the pub. Trouble is that the glow- in- the- dark effect did not last very long, so we had to keep running into folks' stairs to re-charge them under the stairlights. Aye it was great fun. And all for the price of a comic!


Mind you God knows what scary properties yon cheap glow-in-the-dark paint had. No doubt nowadays it would never make it past health and safety inspectors. And I sometimes wonder if the reason I am losing my hair is really male pattern baldness, or something much more sinister!!!
All the best!
Arkos

1 comment:

Alien Orders said...

Welcome back.

I had the same glow in the dark mask and have a full heid of hair.

In fact i'm going for a haircut the morn as I have so much and need to get rid of some.

Last time I saw Bobrob he looked pretty hirsuit too. Looks like you just got the short straw Arkos.

I would advise against a law suit against D.C Thomson on those grounds. Yer goin a wee bit bald but at least yer no yer auld man.

Stand up to yer neeps.