# Attention All Dopers ... I need your help **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 10, 2001, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-all-dopers-i-need-your-help/80634 "2001-09-10T06:31:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![LinoleumInnocence](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f9ae1b/32.png) [@LinoleumInnocence](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LinoleumInnocence)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2001, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-all-dopers-i-need-your-help/80634/1 "2001-09-10T06:31:20Z")
I have just been invited to a housewarming party with a theme: Come dressed as someone famous “Dead or Alive”, whether someone from reality or from your favourite movie, book, comic or magazine … Pretty broad! There are 5 of us (3 girls and 2 guys). We have already thought up a few but there is no clear winner as yet. So if you could help me out I would really appreciate it!!! Li ---
**Author:** ![xanadu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c4cdca/32.png) [@xanadu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xanadu)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2001, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-all-dopers-i-need-your-help/80634/2 "2001-09-10T07:08:02Z")
The cast of Gilligan’s Island would be fun, but then one of the girls would have to be the old lady. How about dressing like the cast of the Rocky Horror Picture Show? There are enough characters to go around. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2001, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-all-dopers-i-need-your-help/80634/3 "2001-09-10T07:27:10Z")
How about the characters of the movie/game board Clue? [http://www.geocities.com/col\_mustard\_2000/cfiles.html](http://www.geocities.com/col_mustard_2000/cfiles.html) Scroll down to find the outfits of the characters. It could be fun to bring a Clue board game or the VCR version (as a gift too?) to the housewarming. ---
**Author:** ![LinoleumInnocence](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f9ae1b/32.png) [@LinoleumInnocence](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LinoleumInnocence)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2001, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-all-dopers-i-need-your-help/80634/4 "2001-09-10T07:34:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by GIGObuster \* > \*\*How about the characters of the movie/game board Clue? > > [http://www.geocities.com/col\_mustard\_2000/cfiles.html](http://www.geocities.com/col_mustard_2000/cfiles.html) > > Scroll down to find the outfits of the characters. It could be fun to bring a Clue board game or the VCR version (as a gift too?) to the housewarming. \*\* That is an excellent idea!!! Keep them coming people. This, unfortunately will decided by committee so I will need lots of options. Gilligan’s Island was a good one as well. Hmmm. I would be Mary Ann I think. Li ---
**Author:** ![Gomez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d78d45/32.png) [@Gomez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gomez)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2001, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-all-dopers-i-need-your-help/80634/5 "2001-09-10T10:16:38Z")
Go as the Reservoir Dogs. You’ll need one more person to make up the numbers but if that don’t happen just drop mr Blue. He hardly does anything anyhow. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2001, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-all-dopers-i-need-your-help/80634/6 "2001-09-10T11:19:59Z")
The Brady Bunch? Hmm. S-Club-7? The Wizard of Oz? Gee, this is difficult… Deep Space Nine? A chess set? Abba? These are no good, I’ve got my numbers all wrong! ---
**Author:** ![Futile\_Gesture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f05b48/32.png) [@Futile\_Gesture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Futile_Gesture)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2001, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-all-dopers-i-need-your-help/80634/7 "2001-09-10T11:37:29Z")
The Simpsons. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2001, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-all-dopers-i-need-your-help/80634/8 "2001-09-10T15:32:41Z")
I knew of a group of friends who once went to a “picnic with the pops” event as [The Luncheon of the Boating Party](http://www.artchive.com/artchive/R/renoir/boating.jpg.html) by Renoir. They all positioned themselves at the table exactly as the people in the painting. This would be sort of hard to do if you had to move about, but I love the idea as going as people in a painting. Is there a particular work you all love? Or at least have the right number of people to portray. ---
**Author:** ![naughty\_wicked\_zoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@naughty\_wicked\_zoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naughty_wicked_zoot)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2001, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-all-dopers-i-need-your-help/80634/9 "2001-09-10T18:06:19Z")
once went to a halloween party where everybody had to come as characters from wallace and grommit. i went as the “techno-trousers (ex-NASA)”, which i made using a hula hoop and my impressive sewing skills, hubby went as the chicken/penguin, we had the garden gnome who sits on top of the secret exit that wallaces motocycle comes out of, someone else came as preston, the cyber-dog, one woman came as wendoline. it was a really fun party! ---
**Author:** ![LinoleumInnocence](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f9ae1b/32.png) [@LinoleumInnocence](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LinoleumInnocence)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-all-dopers-i-need-your-help/80634/10 "2001-09-11T04:11:55Z")
You guys are all stars!!! These are such good ideas!!! Heaps better than ours were. Although we had the Brady Bunch as well (I was going to have to be Cindy). Keep them coming Dopers. After the party I’ll post what we go as. Li ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-all-dopers-i-need-your-help/80634/11 "2001-09-11T04:19:46Z")
Steve McQueen-star of the television western _Dead Or Alive_. ---
**Author:** ![Heath\_Doolin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Heath\_Doolin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heath_Doolin)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-all-dopers-i-need-your-help/80634/12 "2001-09-11T05:16:48Z")
Everyone come as Gumby’s (ala Monty Python’s) ---
**Author:** ![Gozu\_Tashoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7993a0/32.png) [@Gozu\_Tashoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu_Tashoya)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2001, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-all-dopers-i-need-your-help/80634/13 "2001-09-12T10:06:41Z")
Characters from the video game _Dead or Alive_? For, ahem, inspiration, go [here](http://e3.sixdegreesofnothing.com/page2.html). The fifth and seventh pictures. ---
**Author:** ![DAVEW0071](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19b73/32.png) [@DAVEW0071](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DAVEW0071)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2001, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-all-dopers-i-need-your-help/80634/14 "2001-09-12T11:01:36Z")
Two words for you: Captain Underpants. Tra-la-laaa! ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2001, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-all-dopers-i-need-your-help/80634/15 "2001-09-12T16:19:42Z")
Ben Folds Five? oh wait… How about Power Rangers? Oh come on! You know you want to. ---
**Author:** ![naughty\_wicked\_zoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@naughty\_wicked\_zoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naughty_wicked_zoot)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2001, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-all-dopers-i-need-your-help/80634/16 "2001-09-12T18:37:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Heath Doolin \* > \*\*Everyone come as Gumby’s (ala Monty Python’s) \*\* i love this!!! mind if i steal it for my next costume party? ---
**Author:** ![Heath\_Doolin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Heath\_Doolin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heath_Doolin)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2001, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-all-dopers-i-need-your-help/80634/17 "2001-09-12T20:15:47Z")
Surely…a bunch of us went as “Gumby Brain Surgery” to a big party. Funny thing was, we became better Gumby’s as we drank more Go figure… ---
**Author:** ![LordVor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/90ced4/32.png) [@LordVor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LordVor)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2001, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-all-dopers-i-need-your-help/80634/18 "2001-09-13T04:18:34Z")
The Harlem Globetrotters. -LV ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2001, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-all-dopers-i-need-your-help/80634/19 "2001-09-14T03:12:12Z")
The Globetrotters would be great! I suggest Scooby Doo characters. Or, do you remember “The Karate Kid”? Do you remember the Halloween costumes? Have one person in a [shower get-up](http://www.ans.iastate.edu/images4/dance.html), and the other four in those [black skeleton suits](http://www.fast-rewind.com/kkid/). ---
**Author:** ![saraphin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@saraphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saraphin)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2001, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-all-dopers-i-need-your-help/80634/20 "2001-09-14T03:22:17Z")
You’re going as charecters from Peter Jackson’s “Dead Alive”?!? I wanna attend that party!!! Hell, I think I’m gonna give it! 🙂 [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0103873](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0103873) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-all-dopers-i-need-your-help/80634.md?page=2)