Tuesday, October 31, 2006 Seares: Skeleton in the closet By Pachico A. Seares News Sense
HALLOWEEN talk in a coffee shop led to “skeleton in the closet.” One guy said, “Hey, did you see any skeleton from the closet lately?”
Another guy asked, “You mean skeleton as halloween costume or prop?”
“No, I mean skeleton in the closet...”
“... Skeleton shirt your boy took from your closet and wore last night at the halloween party. Not the same. And not funny.” At 1 p.m. in a coffee shop, few things are funny.
Not the fresh squabble over abolishing the Senate. How can the Senate agree to a constituent assembly in which top item is to lethally inject the Senate?
Won’t happen unless the Senate suddenly is seized with death wish or suicidal fever.
Rarely funny
But a skeleton in the closet is rarely funny. How can “some fact, as about one’s family, kept secret because of shame or fear of disgrace” be funny? Even if it is, it won’t be funny funny but morbid/masochist funny.
And a secret may not be skeleton in the closet. The secret that Alex Tolentino splashed a glass of water at a fellow MCWD official in an execom meeting is not skeleton in the closet. Just a secret, before Bobby Nalzaro revealed it on dySS radio.
Not yet anyway. It happened just recently. A secret, they say, has to lurk in the closet for sometime to qualify as skeleton in the closet.
Now that may be funny. No, when nothing much is said at 1 p.m. anywhere on a slow newsday, that is funny.
