Last night I saw three television commercials in a row starring women in cute-but-slutty red elf costumes. When I remarked to the Nymph, she looked at me like I was mentally slow, and said “Well, it’s that time of year, dear.”

I suppose it is. So here I am, jumping on the bandwagon, and here’s your woman in (half of) an elf costume:

I found it on Usenet, where the original file name suggested a possible initial publication in an early men’s magazine called Monsieur.