This is the same moron who was in favor of deforestation and said that The Beach Boys were “undesirable” to be performers for a July 4[sup]th[/sup] celebration on the National Mall. And a similar phrase appeared in Bloom County when the gang was promoting Mr. Limekiller for the Meadow Party.
In a previous thread on the same subject, I mentioned a college acquaintance who had his mother make him a tadpole costume. He told her not to worry about dyeing it green – he’d do that later. Naturally, he left it white and came as a sperm. Mind you, this wasn’t at a party, but for the costume contest in the college cafeteria.
The following year, he added a red-satin-lined black cape and fake fangs and came as a . . .
(wait for it)
sperm Count.
A woman I know went to a party dressed in work clothes and a tool belt. She carried a small, sqare, hand sized flashlight that she’d wave over the men at the party. Very seldomly did she turn the flashlight on while “scanning” a person.
Her costume: she was a stud-finder.
(For the non-carpentry inclined: once the sheetrock is put over the framing members - - studs - - to complete the wall of a house, they’re hard to find. You do, however, need to find them if you’re going to attach cabinets, molding, baseboards, and other things. Carpenters carry a tool called a stud-finder that can be moved over a wall to find the studs.)
I am embarassed to report that my father in law wore a flesh bodysuit with fake package, under a trenchcoat. He then put on roller skates and told everyone he was a pull toy.
a little Elephant pin in the lapel, and told everyone I was a Republican.
I wanted to be a prostate gland in honor of National Prostate Week (which started on Halloween) but I couldn’t think of a way to make a decent prostate costume.
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. My Mom used to make me really elaborate costumes - one year I was Godzilla (the costume was so good it got reused in later years by two of my nephews), another year a lion (I can’t remember exactly why I wanted to be a lion that year), and when those glowsticks were something new I was a wizard - my Dad’s theater makeup experience made me look really old, I had real occult symbols on my hat and robes, and my wand had the glowstick in the tip and a lots of people had no idea what it was.
Saw somebody at a bar one year with a toilet seat around their neck, carrying a squirt gun.
Costume? Bidet.
I had a friend go once as a Vending Machine. He even had the levers that you would pull and he’d give you something, either candy or coke. He always comes up with a good idea.
I have a friend going this year as Leonard Shelby from “Memento”. He usually comes up with really good ideas.
In college, I had a group of friends that always had incredible costumes. One year, it was the Karate Kid costume with the shower curtain, followed by 5 guys in skeleton costumes. Another year, it was Ponch and Jon from “CHiPs”. Another year it was an entire boy scout troop with den mother (they spent a lot of money at Goodwill). Some other friends went as The Harlem Globetrotters.
This year I am going to a party as Mrs Cleo, black face and all. (I am a guy)
A few years back in college my friend dressed as a joint, (the kind you smoke-not the elbow), and wore white from head to toe. Problem was another group of students thought he was dressed as a klansman and kicked the shit out of him.
its funny now
hell it was funny then too!
So…does anyone else find themselves completely misunderstanding questions? Because when I read the title, my orginal thought was " I dunno, maybe about 30 while trick o’ treating one year." After I read the title three times, I figured out that’s probably not what it was asking.
I can’t think of any that I’ve seen though. My brother’s going as an Urban Steet Mime (you know “gansta clothes,” white face) does that count as orginal? Has anyone else dressed up as a harri krisha (sp) before? That was fun, though not too many people knew what we were…
The best one I ever heard of was during the Watergate Crisis. It was worn by a couple: the woman had a t-shirt with Archie Bunker on it, and her husband had a bald wig on. They both wore dildos (concealed beneath aprons until you asked what their costume was.)
Any guesses?
Archie + bald + cocks = Archibald Cox (the Watergate prosecutor)
Best costume I ever saw, at a bar, a guy wearing a silk shirt unbuttoned to his navel, black pants, tap shoes, had blow-dried his hair to look like some cheesy early-80’s do, and spent the evening with a stupid smile on his face, arms on his hips, dancing in place:
Michael Flatley, Lord of the Dance.
Last year, a friend of mine wore normal clothes, with various Barbie dolls stuck to them in all sorts of random angles & positions.
He was a "chick magnet".this year, vidient & I are doing a two-parter. My costume will be a simple “Nick’s Moving Company” t-shirt, with props such as cardboard box & packing tape. She’ll have a big salt-shaker painted on poster board. we’ll be “a mover & a shaker”
One of my favorites was a woman who had two large peices of cardboard with blow ups of the front and back covers of Playboy magazine. Open it up and there was a fold out centerfold - of a skeleton. That was a real nude. 
I remember back when I collected comic books, Wizard Magazine had Halloween costume contests. One year, the grand prize winner had made a Predator costume out of common household items. I was VERY impressed.
One of the Deli workers at a local grocery store had shoulder length + hair (back in the 80’s). He normally had a full beard. One Halloween, he shaved off all his facial hair on only one side of his face. He also cut half his hair short, the side with the remaining part of the beard and mustache. He worked the whole day in the Deli as a half man / half woman. Make-up, one large breast, the outfit was sewn together half and half. It was so well done; it really messed with your senses just to look at. The profile shot of the woman’s side was incredibly convincing.
Last year a guy in my office wore a tuxedo and carried a silver tray heaped with fake spiderwebs. What was he?
A web server.
Saw a kid as a mailbox once. That was by far the coolest.