# Any simple clever costume ideas? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 28, 2010, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-simple-clever-costume-ideas/558702 "2010-10-28T20:58:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![pancakes3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba9def/32.png) [@pancakes3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pancakes3)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2010, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-simple-clever-costume-ideas/558702/41 "2010-10-29T20:50:12Z")
empty coca cola box over your face - cokehead. ---
**Author:** ![RachelChristine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7ab992/32.png) [@RachelChristine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RachelChristine)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2010, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-simple-clever-costume-ideas/558702/42 "2010-10-29T22:44:05Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > You only took it to two digits? We actually debated whether or not to go farther. We thought of having the digits get smaller and smaller down the shirt, but for something just thrown together, we went with the obvious 3.14. The back of his shirt is a circle with 2 radii and the area formula underneath. I wanted to do sqrt -1, then the formula for the cartoid graph, then the pi symbol, but we knew no one in this crowd would have the slightest idea. \ ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2010, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-simple-clever-costume-ideas/558702/43 "2010-10-29T23:04:41Z")
White T-Shirt Black Marker Use Black Marker to write, in capital letters on the front, “FE” Congratulations, you are now Iron Man. Providing you’re a man, of course. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2010, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-simple-clever-costume-ideas/558702/44 "2010-10-29T23:27:30Z")
Colored makeup. Perhaps metallic. ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2010, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-simple-clever-costume-ideas/558702/45 "2010-10-30T01:10:30Z")
I was, again, at a different office job from the last time I used it, “Cloudy, With a Chance of Showers”. Grey clothes, hair band with cottonballs (clouds) attached at the top and a small spray bottle of water (showers). People got three chances to guess what I was. When they gave up, I announced: “I’m cloudy,” A brief pause, and then the squirt as I tell them: “with a chance of showers”. Works great in an office, as one only needs to remove the head band and squirt bottle to meet clients. Also, all your colleagues follow you around to see when you encounter the next innocent who asks “what are you?” and get quizzed and (gently) squirted! (No, I didn’t ruin anyone’s paperwork. I was careful.) ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2010, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-simple-clever-costume-ideas/558702/46 "2010-10-30T03:19:00Z")
White face paint Shower cap Cotton balls glued to the shower cap White clothing–long pants and long sleeves and white gloves You are a human Q-Tip! ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-simple-clever-costume-ideas/558702/47 "2010-11-02T04:03:20Z")
I know this is too late for Halloween '10, but you could always start planning for next year, and it sounds like [Profane Drunk Baby](http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_ODD_DIAPER_ARREST?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2010-11-01-21-38-30) would be an easy costume. Not sure how much candy you’d get tho. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-simple-clever-costume-ideas/558702.md?page=2)