# Help Me Spice Up My Halloween Costume **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 28, 2005, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-spice-up-my-halloween-costume/328362 "2005-10-28T19:49:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2005, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-spice-up-my-halloween-costume/328362/1 "2005-10-28T19:49:31Z")
What I got is a simple priest’s frock with the white color and a decent sized wooden cross to wear around my neck. That just doesn’t seem like enough so any ideas how to set it apart. I am not interested in being PC, but I am also not interested in being overly offensive. It’s a fine line, I just want to enjoy myself on Saturday night, not get into arguments. ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2005, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-spice-up-my-halloween-costume/328362/2 "2005-10-28T20:20:54Z")
Wear a red sash around your waist. (This would make you a cardinal.) ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2005, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-spice-up-my-halloween-costume/328362/3 "2005-10-28T20:32:22Z")
Offer people communion, using the snack and beverage of your choice. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Weird\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@The\_Weird\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Weird_One)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2005, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-spice-up-my-halloween-costume/328362/4 "2005-10-28T20:32:51Z")
What **TE** said, and then tie a few heads of garlic onto the sash and carry around a wooden stake. BANG! You’re a vampire hunter. Coincidently, I will be dressing up as a vampire. Catch me if you can! ---
**Author:** ![Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4da419/32.png) [@Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gala_Matrix_Fire)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2005, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-spice-up-my-halloween-costume/328362/5 "2005-10-28T22:01:27Z")
You need a girlfriend in a nun’s costume to be openly affectionate with you in public. Maybe with a baby doll wrapped up in a blanket. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2005, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-spice-up-my-halloween-costume/328362/6 "2005-10-28T22:02:55Z")
> [@bluethree](#): > > You need a girlfriend in a nun’s costume to be openly affectionate with you in public. Maybe with a baby doll wrapped up in a blanket. Or swaddling clothes. ---
**Author:** ![MLS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MLS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLS)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2005, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-spice-up-my-halloween-costume/328362/7 "2005-10-28T22:29:32Z")
> [@bluethree](#): > > You need a girlfriend in a nun’s costume to be openly affectionate with you in public. Maybe with a baby doll wrapped up in a blanket. Or an altar boy. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2005, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-spice-up-my-halloween-costume/328362/8 "2005-10-29T01:58:05Z")
The pregnant nun bit has lost a humor it once had. I remember it from the late 70’s early 80’s. Saturday Night Live had the Father Guido Sarducci character and his nuns. Every year now someone dresses as a pregnant nun. Now the altar boy and Priest I haven’t seen at a party yet. Not a good costume in all situations though. What about a Jesuit Missionary to the New France area. “Cheezborger, cheezborger, cheezborger ? no Pepsi–Coke. No fries–cheeps.” SNL The cheeseburger skit. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2005, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-spice-up-my-halloween-costume/328362/9 "2005-10-29T02:16:54Z")
Have you ever seen those annoyingly awful “time-out” dolls? It’s a doll that has no face and it looks like the kid is standing in the corner for time out (they are child sized). Just stick one of those to the crotch of your frock. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2005, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-spice-up-my-halloween-costume/328362/10 "2005-10-29T02:27:06Z")
> [@Gangster Octopus](#): > > What I got is a simple priest’s frock with the white color and a decent sized wooden cross to wear around my neck. That just doesn’t seem like enough so any ideas how to set it apart. I am not interested in being PC, but I am also not interested in being overly offensive. It’s a fine line, I just want to enjoy myself on Saturday night, not get into arguments. Get bottle of Mad Dog or Thunderbird and label it “Communion Wine” with masking tape and a magic marker, and get a big box of Animal Crackers and label it “Communion Wafers” . ---
**Author:** ![myskepticsight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@myskepticsight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/myskepticsight)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2005, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-spice-up-my-halloween-costume/328362/11 "2005-10-29T02:32:58Z")
I’ve seen priest costumes in stores that come with…uh…some extra happiness in the pants region. That’s kind of weird though. I like the communion idea. Pour beer in people’s mouths all night. You’ll be the hit of the party. Or shots, or water, whatever you will be consuming. ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2005, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-spice-up-my-halloween-costume/328362/12 "2005-10-29T02:55:15Z")
You could be some kind of anti-priest. Throw some fake blood on the collar and paint a red, upside down cross on the front/back of the robe. Pop the heads off of some dolls and carry them on a belt or wear them as a necklace. maybe cary around some kind of curvy dagger or sword. ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2005, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-spice-up-my-halloween-costume/328362/13 "2005-10-29T03:26:26Z")
Wear a noose around your neck and carry a bag with 30 pieces of silver in it. Then you will be Judas Priest!!! :: \*ducks and runs \* :: ---
**Author:** ![dinahmoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8797f3/32.png) [@dinahmoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dinahmoe)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2005, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-spice-up-my-halloween-costume/328362/14 "2005-10-29T03:43:44Z")
I like the red sash idea to make you a Cardinal. I’m just trying to figure out a way to incorporate a baseball bat and some scatalogical humor to make you Albert Pujols. (Exp: Albert Pujols plays for the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team. Last name pronouced “poo holes”) ---
**Author:** ![DeadlyAccurate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@DeadlyAccurate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeadlyAccurate)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2005, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-spice-up-my-halloween-costume/328362/15 "2005-10-29T04:00:07Z")
> [@Kolak of Twilo](#): > > Wear a noose around your neck and carry a bag with 30 pieces of silver in it. Then you will be Judas Priest!!! > > :: \*ducks and runs \* :: I like this idea. I love costumes that are visual puns.