# Need Halloween costume ideas; very specific constraints **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 14, 2012, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-halloween-costume-ideas-very-specific-constraints/637707 "2012-10-14T17:33:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![LC\_Strawhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19adc/32.png) [@LC\_Strawhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LC_Strawhouse)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-halloween-costume-ideas-very-specific-constraints/637707/21 "2012-10-16T01:21:34Z")
Any of the characters from Full Metal Jacket would be good too ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-halloween-costume-ideas-very-specific-constraints/637707/22 "2012-10-16T01:25:22Z")
You could go as Domitian. ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-halloween-costume-ideas-very-specific-constraints/637707/23 "2012-10-16T01:37:07Z")
Since you seem to want to do a mohawk, why not go as **[Wez](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zxGZYqmo4M)** from Mad Max 2? ;)😃 ---
**Author:** ![SylverOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@SylverOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SylverOne)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-halloween-costume-ideas-very-specific-constraints/637707/24 "2012-10-16T01:52:51Z")
Rob Halford - I don’t know that he was bald in the 80’s, but Judas Priest definitely qualified for that. Studded leather jacket, sunglasses and a goatee and you’re all set. [Rob Halford](http://www.google.com/search?q=rob+halford&hl=en&rlz=1R2SUNA_en&prmd=imvnso&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=2Lp8UN20NoXxigK-hoCwCw&sqi=2&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1203&bih=731#hl=en&rlz=1R2SUNA_en&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=rob+halford&oq=rob+halford&gs_l=img.12...0.0.0.74302.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0...0.0...1c.-Ozyglt6iMY&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&fp=c59a86cc67ee2542&bpcl=35440803&biw=1203&bih=731) ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-halloween-costume-ideas-very-specific-constraints/637707/25 "2012-10-16T03:47:58Z")
Wear Biblical style clothes and say you are from _the_ 80’s. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-halloween-costume-ideas-very-specific-constraints/637707/26 "2012-10-16T04:45:26Z")
Are you white and skinny enough to pull off 1980s Sinead O’Connor? ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-halloween-costume-ideas-very-specific-constraints/637707/27 "2012-10-16T07:04:59Z")
> [@Enginerd](#): > > Are you white and skinny enough to pull off 1980s Sinead O’Connor? Clever! 😃 ---
**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 16, 2012, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-halloween-costume-ideas-very-specific-constraints/637707/28 "2012-10-16T07:47:44Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > But then he’d have to shave a horseshoe into his head. Then again, after Halloween is over, he could shave the rest. Hmm. So okay, I vote Hulk Hogan! But the OP could do it with style. He’s planning on shaving his head but presumably people don’t know that. So he can show up at the party wearing a bandanna like Hogan wore to conceal his receding hairline. Everyone will assume the OP has his normal hair underneath the bandanna. Then halfway through the party, he can take off the bandanna to reveal his shaved head. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-halloween-costume-ideas-very-specific-constraints/637707/29 "2012-10-16T14:09:11Z")
[quote=“Randy\_Seltzer, post:1, topic:637707”] [list][li] Mr. T – I’d have to shave a mohawk, and it would be pretty funny to have a skinny white guy try to pull off a bulky black guy. [/li][/QUOTE] You run the risk of looking more like Travis Bickle than Mr T, however… ---
**Author:** ![Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barkis_is_Willin)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-halloween-costume-ideas-very-specific-constraints/637707/30 "2012-10-16T14:23:56Z")
[Bam Bam Bigelow](http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=bam+bam+bigelow&FORM=HDRSC2&adlt=strict) ---
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-halloween-costume-ideas-very-specific-constraints/637707/31 "2012-10-16T15:15:38Z")
All you need for this costume is a helmet, a piece of tape with a name on it, a cardboard box and some paint. 1)Shave your head then put the helmet on. 2) Then paint the box to look like a tank and get inside of it. 3) [Now write Mike Dukakis on the tape and stick it to your helmet.](http://darrengarnick.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/dukakis_tank.jpg) (Sure the headshaving thing is irrelevent, but it’s still a good costume. And Persis Khambatta was in the 1979 Star Trek movie, so a year too early for being her.\_ ---
**Author:** ![Randy\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ee7513/32.png) [@Randy\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Randy_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-halloween-costume-ideas-very-specific-constraints/637707/32 "2012-10-16T15:30:04Z")
> [@LC\_Strawhouse](#): > > Pac-Man? Ha, that’s pretty tempting. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-halloween-costume-ideas-very-specific-constraints/637707/33 "2012-10-16T15:47:35Z")
My first instinct, before I saw your self-suggestions, was Mr. T. Maybe Skeletor? ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-halloween-costume-ideas-very-specific-constraints/637707/34 "2012-10-16T15:57:14Z")
The lead singers from Midnight Oil and Right Said Fred both had shaved heads, didn’t they? ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-halloween-costume-ideas-very-specific-constraints/637707/35 "2012-10-17T04:35:46Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Put on an earring and a white T-shirt and white pants. You’re **Mr. Clean**. It’s not restricted tyo the 1980s, but they _were_ selling it then. That’s what I was going to suggest… ---
**Author:** ![Randy\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ee7513/32.png) [@Randy\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Randy_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2012, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-halloween-costume-ideas-very-specific-constraints/637707/36 "2012-10-28T19:27:20Z")
Thanks for the input guys. [I think it turned out pretty well.](http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/717/26761910151063998446582.jpg/) ETA: Also appearing at the party were [ul][_]The Blues Brothers (husband and wife)[_]Madonna in “Like a Virgin”[_]Richard Simmons[_]She-Ra (from “He-Man”)[_]Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze from “Dirty Dancing”[_]A Bon Jovi groupie [_]One of the girls from “Babysitters’ Club”[_]A pair of completely face-painted smurfs, which is extremely terrifying in practice.[/ul] ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2012, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-halloween-costume-ideas-very-specific-constraints/637707/37 "2012-10-28T19:43:31Z")
Great job! ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2012, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-halloween-costume-ideas-very-specific-constraints/637707/38 "2012-10-28T21:17:08Z")
Very good job!! I came in with a suggestion, obviously far too late, lol. But I was gonna suggest Max Headroom 🙂 He’s not really bald, but shaving stripes to make it like cornrows and then bleaching out the rest would work. But the MrT worked out awesome 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2012, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-halloween-costume-ideas-very-specific-constraints/637707/39 "2012-10-28T21:55:33Z")
Love it! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-halloween-costume-ideas-very-specific-constraints/637707.md?page=1)