# Halloween Costumes 2010 **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 12, 2010, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-costumes-2010/556905 "2010-10-12T19:02:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2010, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-costumes-2010/556905/21 "2010-10-14T18:09:18Z")
I am torn between going as a female nerd ( based on some SPECTACULAR vintage RX 50’s glasses I got at work that I just have to tap out the lenses for.) or possibly dressing as one of my co-workers, who dresses ecletic 70’s/ pimpish. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2010, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-costumes-2010/556905/22 "2010-10-14T19:56:15Z")
> [@bouv](#): > > I haven’t entirely decided… > > My first thought was Artie: The strongest man…_in the world!_ I had no idea what this means or who it is, so I checked the link… and I still don’t. ---
**Author:** ![FordTaurusSHO94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f07891/32.png) [@FordTaurusSHO94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordTaurusSHO94)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2010, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-costumes-2010/556905/23 "2010-10-14T20:05:57Z")
I got a TNG-era uniform a month or 2 ago that’s patiently waiting in my closet. ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2010, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-costumes-2010/556905/24 "2010-10-14T21:23:32Z")
I know two women promising to wear normal clothes, a mask and an iPad around their necks. They promise to have iPhoto albums on the iPads that will allow people to play a game they invented called “Match the Boobies”. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2010, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-costumes-2010/556905/25 "2010-10-14T21:29:04Z")
> [@corkboard](#): > > > [@bouv](#): > > > > I haven’t entirely decided… > > > > My first thought was Artie: The strongest man…_in the world!_ > > I had no idea what this means or who it is, so I checked the link… and I still don’t. He’s a character from the old Nickelodeon show “The Adventures of Pete and Pete.” ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2010, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-costumes-2010/556905/26 "2010-10-14T21:30:21Z")
My kids were invited to a Halloween party next weekend, and I just found out that the adults are expected to be in costume as well. Help me out with ideas. Here’s the tricky part: I have a beard, so clean-shaven characters are out. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2010, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-costumes-2010/556905/27 "2010-10-14T23:42:04Z")
> [@Infovore](#): > > > [@corkboard](#): > > > > I had no idea what this means or who it is, so I checked the link… and I still don’t. > > He’s a character from the old Nickelodeon show “The Adventures of Pete and Pete.” Correct. And since I’m in my 20’s, and will be partying with a lot of other people in their 20’s, they would all recognize and love it. ---
**Author:** ![kath94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/67e7ee/32.png) [@kath94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kath94)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2010, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-costumes-2010/556905/28 "2010-10-15T00:00:19Z")
> [@Skammer](#): > > My kids were invited to a Halloween party next weekend, and I just found out that the adults are expected to be in costume as well. Help me out with ideas. Here’s the tricky part: I have a beard, so clean-shaven characters are out. I’ve got a \*\*great \*\*one for you, **Skammer**. My husband used to work with a big, hairy guy (not making any judgments here on you, but you did admit to the beard) who dressed as a fairy. Pink, fluffy tutu, wings, and a wand. He wasn’t just a fairy, he was an effin’ fairy. This works best if you can pull off the MANLY MAN persona. No explanation needed, but if anyone asks who you are, you tell 'em you’re an **effin’ fairy**. ---
**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:** [October 15, 2010, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-costumes-2010/556905/29 "2010-10-15T00:15:37Z")
> [@bouv](#): > > > [@Infovore](#): > > > > He’s a character from the old Nickelodeon show “The Adventures of Pete and Pete.” > > Correct. And since I’m in my 20’s, and will be partying with a lot of other people in their 20’s, they would all recognize and love it. In that case - you should go as the AgroCrag. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2010, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-costumes-2010/556905/30 "2010-10-15T00:20:19Z")
> [@kath94](#): > > > [@Skammer](#): > > > > My kids were invited to a Halloween party next weekend, and I just found out that the adults are expected to be in costume as well. Help me out with ideas. Here’s the tricky part: I have a beard, so clean-shaven characters are out. > > I’ve got a \*\*great \*\*one for you, **Skammer**. My husband used to work with a big, hairy guy (not making any judgments here on you, but you did admit to the beard) who dressed as a fairy. Pink, fluffy tutu, wings, and a wand. He wasn’t just a fairy, he was an effin’ fairy. This works best if you can pull off the MANLY MAN persona. No explanation needed, but if anyone asks who you are, you tell 'em you’re an **effin’ fairy**. If you’re a larger type, you could go as [Sailor Bubba](http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080626232012/wikiality/images/5/5e/Sailorbubba.jpg). 😃 Or, more realistically, get a red plaid flannel shirt and a couple of power tools and go as Al Borland from Home Improvement 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2010, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-costumes-2010/556905/31 "2010-10-15T00:27:42Z")
How about a sooty jumpsuit, a hardhat, and Oakley sunglasses? You could be very recognizable as a Chilean Miner. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2010, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-costumes-2010/556905/32 "2010-10-15T00:36:37Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > In that case - you should go as the AgroCrag. Ha, a delicious idea. In that vein, there are several websites that sell the t-shirts they wore on Guts, Legend of the Human Temple, Double Dare, etc.. [Like so.](http://www.templeshirts.com/) ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2010, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-costumes-2010/556905/33 "2010-10-15T00:45:55Z")
> [@Electronic\_Chaos](#): > > Hunter S. THompson should be pretty easy to pull off. Aviator shades, a cigarette with a holder/filter, some sort of hat, and a bottle of Wild Turkey. One of those soft fisherman’s hats would work. I was HST for Halloween a couple of years ago, and except for the Wild Turkey, you described my costume to a t. I ran into another HST somewhere around Union Square, which was cool because I got to do the “My god, there I am!” line from the _Fear and Loathing_ movie. I was Salvador Dali last Halloween but I haven’t decided on anything this year. My mom suggested Toulouse Lautrec, which sounds funny. I’m waiting for inspiration to strike. ---
**Author:** ![jsquire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ce73a5/32.png) [@jsquire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsquire)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2010, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-costumes-2010/556905/34 "2010-10-15T01:50:09Z")
I live in Toledo…I’m thinking about putting on an SS uniform with a Rich Iott yard sign hanging around my neck. Here’s how popular he is around here: the CONSERVATIVE weekly paper had a column calling for him to quit his Congressional race which led off with the following joke… Did you hear Rich Iott got thrown out of the Valentine Theater last night? They were doing “The Diary of Anne Frank” and he kept yelling “She’s in the attic!” ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2010, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-costumes-2010/556905/35 "2010-10-15T06:52:37Z")
> [@Oredigger77](#): > > I taking the easy route this year. I’m going as Clark Kent starting off the Superman transformation. I just bought a fedora, glasses and a Superman T-shirt, total cost about $40. I’ll wear my pin stripe suit and dye my hair black with the dress shit mostly unbuttoned and the tie lose. Have an untucked red cape hanging down from under your jacket. ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2010, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-costumes-2010/556905/36 "2010-10-15T10:07:58Z")
> [@Hampshire](#): > > Not sure if this costume would be recognizable in all parts of the country but I was going to dress up in the same outfit a geeksquad guy would wear (black pants, black shoes, white short sleeve button down shirt, black tie), but also add a bike helmet and backback. > Mormon youth. You forgot the black nametag that says **Elder Hampshire.** And an accomplice. Missionaries never travel alone, always in pairs. The backpack should be leather if you can manage it. I’m going as a zombie hunter this year. I _need_ to start finding appropriate apparel and props. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2010, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-costumes-2010/556905/37 "2010-10-15T14:12:47Z")
> [@Oredigger77](#): > > I taking the easy route this year. I’m going as Clark Kent starting off the Superman transformation. I just bought a fedora, glasses and a Superman T-shirt, total cost about $40. I’ll wear my pin stripe suit and dye my hair black with the dress shit mostly unbuttoned and the tie lose. I know a guy who wore a dark suit with the shirt unbuttoned and a Superman t-shirt underneath, fedora and glasses. The kicker was he rolled around the Halloween party in a wheelchair he borrowed from a theatre prop shop. A little too dark, maybe. ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2010, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-costumes-2010/556905/38 "2010-10-15T14:55:09Z")
> [@corkboard](#): > > A little too dark, maybe. I just laughed water through my nose. I love it my only problem is that my town is on the side of a mountain and I don’t want to have to deal with hills in a wheel chair. > [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Have an untucked red cape hanging down from under your jacket. This might work I’m going to have to find a child sized cape so it barely pokes out. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2010, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-costumes-2010/556905/39 "2010-10-15T16:18:32Z")
My company has an extra day of vacation time as the first prize for this year’s Halloween costume competition. Anyone have any brilliant, work-appropriate, and relatively easy ideas? StG ---
**Author:** ![CrimeThink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90db22/32.png) [@CrimeThink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrimeThink)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2010, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-costumes-2010/556905/40 "2010-10-15T17:06:40Z")
Someone dressed as Hunter S. Thompson at a party I went to last year. I was the only one in the group I was talking to who had any idea who he was supposed to be. Some people got it after I told them but only because they had watched Fear and Loathing awhile back. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-costumes-2010/556905.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-costumes-2010/556905.md?page=3)