# Most original halloween costumes you've seen? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 21, 2001, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-original-halloween-costumes-youve-seen/88742 "2001-10-21T21:18:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-original-halloween-costumes-youve-seen/88742/41 "2001-10-27T10:15:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jeff Olsen \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Green Bean \* > > \*\*Ginger–James Watt was the Secretary of the Interior under President Reagan. In a badly-worded effort to show how diverse his staff was, he said: "We have every kind of mixture you can have. I have a black, I have a woman, two Jews, and a cripple.” He was fired shortly thereafter. > > [cite](http://www.washingtonpest.com/punditocracy_2000/punditocracy_04_14_00.html) \*\* > > This is the same moron who was in favor of deforestation…\*\* You’ve made me remember a political cartoon I saw around that time; it may have been Berry’s World. A car pulls into Yosemite, and a bear approaches the window, holding a clipboard and a pen. The driver says, “Sorry, we already signed a petition against James Watt.” I thought it was hilarious, mostly because exchanges between bears and hikers/campers are not usually polite and businesslike ;). ---
**Author:** ![urban1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d07c76/32.png) [@urban1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/urban1)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-original-halloween-costumes-youve-seen/88742/42 "2001-10-27T15:53:35Z")
I recently saw a picture on the internet of a guy wearing normal clothes on the right side and naked on the other. I won’t post a link, but it was very well done. ---
**Author:** ![Katisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bcef8e/32.png) [@Katisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katisha)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-original-halloween-costumes-youve-seen/88742/43 "2001-10-27T16:56:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Badtz Maru \* > \*\*When I was 11 I went as a cockroach. I had a big paper mache head (made with the balloon technique used for pinatas), a black plastic trashbag body, paper wings, balloons for my extra limbs, and black tights. One of my weirder ones. \*\* And, to increase the weirdness factor, you could have told people you were Gregor Samsa… 😉 (Of course, how many 11-year-olds know about Kafka? I certainly didn’t…) ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-original-halloween-costumes-youve-seen/88742/44 "2001-10-27T17:13:38Z")
Not really original, but very well done– Went to a Halloween party one year, and one of the guests was a disabled man, in a motorized wheelchair. He came dressed as the Energizer bunny. Even had a big bass drum to beat on. It was outstanding, and he won the Best Costume prize that year. ---
**Author:** ![Searching\_For\_Truth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@Searching\_For\_Truth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Searching_For_Truth)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-original-halloween-costumes-youve-seen/88742/45 "2001-10-27T21:47:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Slartibartfastt \* > \*\*I saw three guys dressed in you basic all white ghost costumes but with the addition of the this logo on the back of the sheets, " Fallopian tube swim team" \*\* Add a “tail” and you’ve got **ARose** as of this Friday night. You should have seen the people’s faces… My mom saw someone once dress up as a _hemorrhoid_. And his wife was like, Preparation H. Ewww… ---
**Author:** ![peepthis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9d8465/32.png) [@peepthis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peepthis)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2001, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-original-halloween-costumes-youve-seen/88742/46 "2001-10-28T01:20:42Z")
A friend of mine has his costume laid out already: a “bald” head covering, a glue-on goatee, and a baseball cap that says “Injun” on it (if you were/are into 80s metal, you know where this is going). He’s going as Scott Ian, the guitarist from Anthrax. Wearing a band t-shirt too, of course. Since he’s doing this in DC, I can’t give him much credit on being at all tasteful, but shock factor is nothing new for him… So I suggested his girlfriend should don a blond wig and a PMRC t-shirt with a “Parental Advisory Logo” on it, going as Tipper Gore – the only proven solution for Anthrax. I’ll be curious to see if he goes through with it… ---
**Author:** ![Kbean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Kbean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kbean)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2001, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-original-halloween-costumes-youve-seen/88742/47 "2001-10-28T13:45:27Z")
There was a kid at the Halloween dance at my school, wearing normal clothes, but his shirt said “COSTUME”. I thought it was hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2001, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-original-halloween-costumes-youve-seen/88742/48 "2001-10-28T15:46:22Z")
I dressed up as Death, and my SO was a Non-essential Security Guard from Star Trek (you know, the kind that get killed in the first five minutes of the show) this year. These were two very easy costumes, and we actually won a prize at the party we went to (it may have been the booby prize, but I’m going to assume not :D). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-original-halloween-costumes-youve-seen/88742.md?page=2)