What's your Halloween costume?

[Cheese Head]

It's time to put on your Halloween costume, if you have one. What are you going to be?

I am probably going to wear my karate uniform. It's comfortable and I won't have to buy/rent anything.

[eden]

For the first year since grade school, I have an actual, identifiable costume. I'm going as a Geisha!

Ordinarily I can't choose a single outfit and end up going as something no one could possibly identify, like The Cat Angel Fairy (last year: cat face, wings, magic wand).

The Geisha wig I have is actually a child's Mulan wig, which cracks me up because it has a red band arount the base of the topknot, which means that the Geisha is no longer a virgin. Intended for 8-year-olds!

[Stella*Fantasia]

I'm gonna be Suzy Snowflake this year!! I have the greatest wig...white with silver tinsel!! I'm going to get waaaaaay drunk!! YAY!!!

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"All you need to be a superhero is a heart that is pure, a mind that
is strong, and underwear that is fresh!"

~Dav Pilkey

[metroshane]

I'm latin, and my girlfriend has red hair. we both are into the swing (not swinger) thing, so we both have all this vintage clothing, so we are going as ricki and lucy

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We're all here, because we're not all there!

[Daniel]

I tried to convince this one girl (a winnie-the-pooh fan, aren't they all?) to buy a Winnie the Pooh costume from the Disney Catalog, and I'd buy the Tigger one.

Unfortunately the costumes are $48 each so she didn't go along with it. And since she didn't go along with it, I'm not.

Since I'm going to a speech tournament this weekend and have to dress in a suit anyway, I'm going to wear my hula girl necktie; that's about as far as I can go without losing speaker points.

unless I can dig up my old Harpo Marx outfit. . . :)

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"I'm just too much for human existence -- I should be animated."
--Wayne Knight

Quick diversion: Metroshane, my friend's band, Dem Brooklyn Bums, is playing in Houston and Austin in early November. They are an awesome swing band - you should check them out - great to dance to. www.brooklynbums.com (http://www.brooklynbums.com)

I am going to dress up as my roommate because I have easy access to all of his dorky clothes.

[Sylence]

Normal clothes.

A ziplock bag full of raw chicken soaked in fake blood.

Yep, I'm the designated "victim".

-- Sylence

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And now, for my next trick, I will talk in spooky half-references.

[Akatsukami]

I'm planning on wearing the same clothes that I always do, and be a serial killer.


They look just like the rest of us, you know.

[meek]

Fake blood splattered over a white jacket and tie, broken 5 iron, one golf shoe on bloodied argyle socks, tam cap, knickers, missing arm -

Payne Stewart

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Give me ambiguity or give me something else.

[MissTangerine]

once again, i've waited until the last possible second, but i think i'm going as a ramone this year--tight jeans, striped shirt and a leather jacker i stole from a friend of mine

[metroshane]

Thanks for the info Melanie.

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We're all here, because we're not all there!

[Mojo]

I think I may be recycling last year's costume and going as Mr. T (more specifically B.A. Baracus). Since I found out he has cancer I consider it a sort of homage.

[OpalCat]

I don't know if I'm going to dress up as anything this year, but my son is going to be a robot and the dog is going to be Superman.

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O p a l C a t
www.opalcat.com

[Pixoid]

This is the first year I'm not throwing together a costume on Halloween day...

I'm going to a party, Saturday night, as Trinity, from the Matrix. Easy costume...I'm just borrowing from friends' wardrobes, mostly. The main impact of this costume is that I have hair down to the middle of my back. I'm going to cut it to my chin Saturday afternoon, and avoid people till the party.

I do way too many things for the shock value... :)

-Pix

[Daniel]

me too.

back in high school my hair was longer. And it's not the sort of hair that really works if it isn't short, so people hated it.

Every now and then I'd tie it back and wear it as a ponytail (as if guys with ponytails aren't bad enough, guys with afro-tendency hair as a ponytail?) and people would always be delighted at the thought that I'd actually cut my hair short.

The one day I actually DID cut my hair short, nobody said anything. huh.

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"I'm just too much for human existence -- I should be animated."
--Wayne Knight

[Dirty Devil]

I just got my costume this afternoon. I'm gonna' be Mr. Potato Head! The eyes, nose and mouth stick on with velcro so you can arrange them anyway you want to on the front. I was thinking about getting a plastic penis from a local adult "book store" and attaching it to my crotch, but I'm not so sure. My wife and I are going to a costume contest at a night club, so there won't be any kids around, but I'm still a little hesitant. What should I do, folks?

[Persephone]

My daughter is going to be Blue, from Blue's Clues. We're going to a Halloween party, for kids & adults. My husband and I are going as "parents who had time to do laundry," which means whatever we wear will be clean, and color coordinated. :)

[voguevixen]

I'm going to be Austin Powers because, well, unfortunately I actually look like that and have like clothes in my closet already, haha.

Daniel -- when I was at the last game at 3Com park (that's the name, dammit!!!!) there were a couple dressed as Pooh and Tigger...they got to be on Jumbotron :)

[Daniel]

I'll tell her that, voguevixen. If she knew such a thing could make us 'famous', she'd have probably found the money somehow :)

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"I'm just too much for human existence -- I should be animated."
--Wayne Knight

[AzRaek]

Tomorrow at work, we have our party and are allowed to dress up for the day. I'm going as the scariest thing I can think of--myself at seventeen. AAAH! Mostly just an excuse to wear ratty jeans, sneakers and a bad attitude for a day. Mabe I'll get so into character that I'll end up ditching and going to Taco Bell.

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I'll be there
Where I'll teach what I've been taught
And I've been taught...

[HeadlessCow]

I'm going as a pirate this year...no sword though. I tried on my outfit today and I'm thinking that I'm going to be mighty cold on Halloween night. My friend is going as Joker. He bought (all women's) a purple sports coat and purble pants, along with an orange silk shirt and teal vest at the Goodwill store near our college. And today we went shopping and got white gloves and almost got the hair spray and squirting flower to finish the costume but the line was half a store long and we needed to catch the bus back to the dorms. The oddest thing is how stupid he looks until he's wearing the entire outfit and then he looks exactly like the Joker.
If anyone is out near RIT and wants to bring us someplace to go trick or treating we'd certainly appraciate it. :)

[White Wolf]

No Halloween for me this year. :(
Mean old English teacher! How dare you assign research paper deadlines to overlap holidays!

DEATH TO RESEARCH PAPERS!!!


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White Wolf

"Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born." -Gary Mark Gilmore

[PurpleCrackwhore]

This year I have decided to be a purple butterfly, complete with wings antennae and sheer luminous dress. I like the pirate idea.. but I am a piratelady the other 364 days of the year =)

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"Only when he no longer knows what he is doing, does the painter do good
things." --Edgar Degas

[AuraSeer]

I was gonna borrow a full set of Rennaisance garb from a friend of mine. He's heavy into the SCA, and he has the rank of a prince or something, so the outfit is really authentic-looking. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to get in touch with the guy again, so that idea has fallen flat.

As an alternative, I've put together a basic pirate costume, complete with a puffy silk shirt and my sword on my belt.

Since I bought the sword, most of my costumes have just been an excuse to carry it around in public. Last year, I put on the sword and a trenchcoat, and went around saying "There can be only one."

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Laugh hard; it's a long way to the bank.

[DoctorJ]

Witch hat, green makeup, shirt, tie, white coat, stethoscope and reflex hammer.

That's right--a Witch Doctor.

Dr. J

[Lanna]

I've got three costumes this year:

1) For the church Halloween party, I'm going as a civilian.

2) When I go to the Rocky Horror Picture Show Saturday night, I'll be dressing as a whore. Apparently, the black and red lace teddy, black spandex micromini, black heels and fuck me red nail polish are so very slutty, that my parents have forbidden me to leave the house like that, my boyfriend demanded I wear something else, and my brother's friends who are still scared of girls told him that I'm "hot."

3) For trick-or-treating, I'm going as a princess. Mostly because it takes a whole 2 minutes to get ready...


-Lanna

[Rilchiam]

Mr. Rilch and I are very into Peanuts, and we have a friend who is, also. Earlier this year, I discussed with them the possibility of dressing up for Halloween as Charlie Brown (Mr. Rilch), Linus (Steve) and Lucy (me). They agreed, more or less, as long as procuring the costumes was up to me. Last week, I asked them if they still wanted to do that. Suddenly, they never remembered agreeing to this; Mr. Rilch wants to be Darth Maul, and Steve doesn't want to suck his thumb all night. I pressed them on it, and finally they admitted that they had agreed because they had thought I wouldn't remember asking; they thought they were agreeing to nothing. Well, I'm not going to be Lucy on my own, especially since that would be the most expensive costume (I would need a wig, saddle shoes, and precisely the right dress), so I'm going to wear last year's costume: a large order of fries from McD's. But next year, I'll be Charlie Brown.

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Remember, I'm pulling for you; we're all in this together.
---Red Green

[Lissa]

My best friend and I were lounging in the living room, trying to think of a costume for her when she suddenly blurted "I'm going as a lamp!"

We bought a lampshade and a small light. Cut a big hole in the side of the shade, and put it on her head. She dressed all in black, complete with a cord, and taped the light inside. She won first prize at the office party. I think it's the simplicity of the idea that makes it so funny. People doubled over when they saw her in the hall.

I'm wearing it to Athens, Ohio for the Halloween party down there. So, if you should happen to see a walking lamp . . .

[Drain Bead]

Hey, Lissa, LTNS! Are you coming to the Columbus Bash next weekend?

[ConMan]

My wife is a big fan of Pepe Le Pew so with a black leotard and some white strips of cloth, she will become Penelope (Pepe's love interest). I, on the other hand, will be a tall tube of Colgate toothpaste.

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"Quoth the Raven, 'Nevermore.'"
E A Poe

[Dead Flowers]

Lanna:

"Fuck me red" nail polish or "Fuck me" red nail polish.

Just Curious. Very curious.

We had to work 6 hours yesterday, mandatory overtime. Wasn't that bad. Some of the younger women there decided to wear their jammies to work as a costume and political statement. The political statement was, I guess, it's a goddamn pain to get off work at midnight and have to be back there at 8 am.
I didn't hear about the costume thing till I got there yesterday; I'm out of that loop. When I was asked what my costume was, I just said that I was your worst nightmare, I'm the guy who's gonna date your daughter.

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Ranger Jeff
The Idol of American Youth
Riders In The Sky (http://www.ridersinthesky.com)

[OpalCat]

Nicky's robot costume is done, and Sparky has a store-bought Superman costume...

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click for bigger picture

PS it has lights on it that really work, and flash when you push a button.

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O p a l C a t
[url="http://www.opalcat.com)

[Boris B]

I'm going to dress up like a woman. Pants, a t-shirt, sweater, boyish haircut.

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Nothing I write about any person or group should be applied to a larger group.
- Boris Badenov

[Daniel]

so I went to the speech tournament and forgot my hula girl necktie; I had to borrow an ordinary necktie from a friend.

I've never worn an ordinary necktie in my life; I always need to have hula girls or casino props or cartoon characters or ice cream scoops or lady bugs or some strange thing on them.

So I wore an ordinary necktie. Unintentional, but for me, definitely a costume.

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"I'm just too much for human existence -- I should be animated."
--Wayne Knight

[Arnold Winkelried]

For one party, I was Raggedy Ann (my girlfriend being Raggedy Andy.)

Last night I was Zorro, the legendary masked hero of Spanish California. Unfortunately, due to the advertising campaign of a local mexican fast food chain, everybody asked me why I wasn't carrying hot sauce on me. Where's the respect?

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J'ai assez vécu pour voir que différence engendre haine.
Stendhal

[heatherlee]

I was the not so original devil. But hey, it fits me perfectly!

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Love Always and Forever,
Heather Lee
XheatherleeX@aol.com