# Robbed! Totally! (lame, halloween related) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 31, 2007, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robbed-totally-lame-halloween-related/424763 "2007-10-31T19:06:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robbed-totally-lame-halloween-related/424763/21 "2007-10-31T20:06:39Z")
[QUOTE=ArchiveGuy] You’re Mr. T and you’re complaining that Catwoman is dated?!?!? 😕 [/QUOTE] This observation is _so_ two minutes ago. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robbed-totally-lame-halloween-related/424763/22 "2007-10-31T20:09:57Z")
Yeah, we were robbed, too. Mr. Pundit went as Senator Larry Craig and I went as a bathroom stall. Mr. Pundit wore a business suit, with the pants dropped around his ankles. (Well, for 5 minutes, then he couldn’t stand it and put them back on). We powdered his hair, put on some glasses, and made business cards and a name badge that said, “Senator Larry Craig, totally NOT gay.” The clincher: tap shoes that I found on e-bay for $20. My stall was made out of a refrigerator box that we painted with white enamel paint. We cut out the legs to resemble a stall and painted them with silver paint, then cut out a door to which we affixed a metal door handle. We bought a “MEN’S ROOM” sign from Lowe’s and glued it to the front and a toilet paper holder (including a roll of toilet paper) which we glued inside. We even put a hook and eye lock so you could lock it from the inside. Then we scribbled some graffiti ("For a good time, call Al at xxx-xxxx) using people’s name and phone numbers who we knew were going to be at the party. We brought permanent markers so people could write their own graffiti. It was a hit! The host of the party, who was the only judge, picked a couple dressed up as Men In Black (black suit, white dress shirt, black tie and sunglasses. That was it.) instead of us. So I commiserate with you Swampwolf. We’ze was robbed, too! ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robbed-totally-lame-halloween-related/424763/23 "2007-10-31T20:12:34Z")
Is it possible the judges don’t know who Mr. T is and mistook you for the local blinged up thug or some guy looking for the nearest rapping contest? ---
**Author:** ![Autumn\_Almanac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d26b3c/32.png) [@Autumn\_Almanac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autumn_Almanac)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robbed-totally-lame-halloween-related/424763/24 "2007-10-31T20:18:45Z")
Absoludicrous! ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robbed-totally-lame-halloween-related/424763/25 "2007-10-31T20:20:07Z")
[QUOTE=ArchiveGuy] You’re Mr. T and you’re complaining that Catwoman is dated?!?!? 😕 [/QUOTE] He’s probably complaining because it wasn’t him who dated her. ---
**Author:** ![Swampwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8edcca/32.png) [@Swampwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swampwolf)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robbed-totally-lame-halloween-related/424763/26 "2007-10-31T20:29:43Z")
[QUOTE=Giraffe] It’s certainly not fresh and original like Mister T, that’s for sure. 😛 (I can’t decide if this should go in MPSIMS or not. Since we’re mostly making fun of **Swampwolf** , I’ll leave it here for now.) [/QUOTE] If you feel MPSIMS is the better place for it, I’ll kiss ass and agree. It is a bit weak and petty. > [@ArchiveGuy](#): > > You’re Mr. T and you’re complaining that Catwoman is dated?!?!? Mr. T is dated enough that he’s kitch. And kitch is always good for Hallowe’en. But 5 years isn’t long enough to go from cool to lame and back to cool again. At any rate: [here](http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z115/swampwolf42/Photo_10.jpg) is what I [look like](http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z115/swampwolf42/Photo_10.jpg) at the moment. ---
**Author:** ![Swampwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8edcca/32.png) [@Swampwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swampwolf)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robbed-totally-lame-halloween-related/424763/27 "2007-10-31T20:39:36Z")
[QUOTE=Swampwolf] If you feel MPSIMS is the better place for it, I’ll kiss ass and agree. It is a bit weak and petty. Mr. T is dated enough that he’s kitch. And kitch is always good for Hallowe’en. But 5 years isn’t long enough to go from cool to lame and back to cool again. At any rate: [here](http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z115/swampwolf42/Photo_10.jpg) is what I [look like](http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z115/swampwolf42/Photo_10.jpg) at the moment. [/QUOTE] [oops.](http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z115/swampwolf42/Photo_9.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robbed-totally-lame-halloween-related/424763/28 "2007-10-31T20:40:05Z")
[QUOTE=Swampwolf] At any rate: [here](http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z115/swampwolf42/Photo_10.jpg) is what I [look like](http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z115/swampwolf42/Photo_10.jpg) at the moment. [/QUOTE] You know those are the same, right? At any rate, unless she was Michelle Pheiffer hot, you wuz indeed robbed. You couldn’t bring yourself to do it with dark make-up? ---
**Author:** ![lisacurl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/41988e/32.png) [@lisacurl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisacurl)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robbed-totally-lame-halloween-related/424763/29 "2007-10-31T20:41:14Z")
[QUOTE=Swampwolf] Bitch, I shaved for this! [/QUOTE] How skimpy was Catwoman’s costume? Maybe she did, too. Upon viewing photos, I think you should have won. I pity da foo. ---
**Author:** ![Swampwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8edcca/32.png) [@Swampwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swampwolf)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robbed-totally-lame-halloween-related/424763/30 "2007-10-31T20:44:40Z")
her costume wasn’t skimpy, and she’s built like a 13-year old. I briefly–very briefly considered blackface. But decided against it after my wife mentioned Ted Danson… Funny part was, when I told my babydaddy about how I was dressing, he asked if I wanted to borrow some brown shoe polish. And he’s a black man.😃 ---
**Author:** ![lisacurl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/41988e/32.png) [@lisacurl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisacurl)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robbed-totally-lame-halloween-related/424763/31 "2007-10-31T21:01:48Z")
It was the whip then, the ho. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robbed-totally-lame-halloween-related/424763/32 "2007-10-31T21:03:29Z")
I take back my uncharitable thoughts. That is by far the best white-guy-is-Mr.-T I have seen in quite some time. Kudos. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robbed-totally-lame-halloween-related/424763/33 "2007-10-31T21:03:36Z")
[QUOTE=Swampwolf] her costume wasn’t skimpy, and she’s built like a 13-year old. I briefly–very briefly considered blackface. But decided against it after my wife mentioned Ted Danson… [/QUOTE] OK. I got it. Next year, same costume. Only do it in whiteface, with Raybans, and go as “Mr. T costumed as Roy Orbison.” ---
**Author:** ![nashiitashii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robbed-totally-lame-halloween-related/424763/34 "2007-10-31T21:10:23Z")
[QUOTE=Zsofia] I take back my uncharitable thoughts. That is by far the best white-guy-is-Mr.-T I have seen in quite some time. Kudos. [/QUOTE] It was pretty darn good, and I’m mildly impressed that you actually shaved the appropriate sections of your hair. I guffawed. 🙂 So, are you going to look like a total moron with the rest of it shaved off after the costume’s over? 😉😃 ETA: If it makes you feel better, I only got second place when I was a [**Snakes on a Plane** victim](http://nashiitashii.livejournal.com/tag/halloween+2006). Apparently I _really_ needed a live snake for people to understand the costume. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robbed-totally-lame-halloween-related/424763/35 "2007-10-31T21:10:25Z")
You all think that’s bad? I cut way too many eye holes in my sheet and got a bag full of rocks. Yeah, I know, lame and dated. Flame away. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robbed-totally-lame-halloween-related/424763/36 "2007-10-31T21:13:19Z")
[QUOTE=PunditLisa] The host of the party, who was the only judge, picked a couple dressed up as Men In Black (black suit, white dress shirt, black tie and sunglasses. That was it.) instead of us. So I commiserate with you Swampwolf. We’ze was robbed, too! [/QUOTE] That’s fucked up, man. ---
**Author:** ![Swampwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8edcca/32.png) [@Swampwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swampwolf)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robbed-totally-lame-halloween-related/424763/37 "2007-10-31T21:13:38Z")
[QUOTE=nashiitashii] So, are you going to look like a total moron with the rest of it shaved off after the costume’s over? 😉😃 [/QUOTE] I’m probably going back to a mohawk and van dyke for a short while, then clean-shaven so it grows out evenly. > [@cochrane](#): > > You all think that’s bad? I cut way too many eye holes in my sheet and got a bag full of rocks. One year I dressed as Charlie Brown (sheet with too many holes) and went to the downdown “walk around in your costumes” area, stoned outta my gourd. After the third time I heard someone say, “Look! It’s a scrubbing bubble!” I got paranoid, and sat in my car 'til I could drive home. ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robbed-totally-lame-halloween-related/424763/38 "2007-10-31T21:39:16Z")
[QUOTE=PunditLisa] Yeah, we were robbed, too. Mr. Pundit went as Senator Larry Craig and I went as a bathroom stall. \ So I commiserate with you Swampwolf. We’ze was robbed, too! [/QUOTE] Big time. Even if the execution sucked (and it sounds like it didn’t in any way), the idea is still a first place winner. Wish I’d thought of it! ---
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robbed-totally-lame-halloween-related/424763/39 "2007-10-31T21:58:23Z")
[QUOTE=cochrane] You all think that’s bad? I cut way too many eye holes in my sheet and got a bag full of rocks. Yeah, I know, lame and dated. Flame away. [/QUOTE] That shit is time less ! Damn, I’m old. ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robbed-totally-lame-halloween-related/424763/40 "2007-10-31T22:22:48Z")
While I can always enjoy more catwoman pics when made available, your costume really does rock hard. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robbed-totally-lame-halloween-related/424763.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robbed-totally-lame-halloween-related/424763.md?page=3)