It's a Muppet Christmas Miracle!

Hopefully this will be my last post on the subject, but Lawrence Miles is now back to posting on The Beasthouse and the takedown has been taken down.

Hopefully this starts to bode well for the coming year.

It's said that in the nineteenth century, actors who portrayed ghosts on stage would often use phosphorous as make-up, since it gives the skin that all-important "glow-in-the-dark" effect (q.v. the big green dog in The Hound of the Baskervilles). Of course, it also has a tendency to kill you. Any number of actors might have died from the long-term effects of phosphorous poisoning, which raises the technical question: what happens if you're haunted by the ghost of someone who died while made up as a ghost? We might imagine that the ghost-ghost would glow twice as brightly as a normal ghost - fitting, for a dead prima donna - but we might also imagine that such entities would be pariahs amongst the rest of their kind, and that walking into a meeting of ghosts while covered in glowing green phosphorous would be much like walking through Brixton while made up as a Black and White Minstrel.