That’s why my company has grand prizes for one man and one woman. There was someone with an awesome homemade Optimus Prime (with working headlights!) that got second place in the guys competition. He was robbed.
What does a four-year-old look like? I mean, what kind of costume did you wear to make yourself look like a four-year-old? I can’t picture it.
Swampwolf. . . wow, great costume! Looked like a winner to me.
What kind of headlights did the women’s winner have?
I beleive Robot means he lost to a 4 yr old dressed as a mermaid.
Man, you WAS robbed! That is way cool.
If it was my contest and you showed up with that hairdo and just your regular work clothes, I’d be like “the winner is Swampwolf, who came dressed as Mr. T working at this office!”
Bitches!!
(and PunditLisa, you guys would have totally won at the party I go to every year. Last year the winners were a couple who came as Mark Foley and his computer.)
:eek: OK, yeah, you were robbed. Excellent costume.
He had the much better costume. Still, if she cleaned herself like a cat, she was bound to get the guy-vote. And some of the girl-vote.
Holy shit, you look like Paul Giamatti doing Mr. T! I pity the fool who be drinkin merlot…
Note to self: Always check the political affiliation of the judges before deciding on a costume.
SwampWolf, you were most assuredly robbed.
I applaud your courage. I haven’t seen someone go this far for a costume since the time I did Tarzan.
How’d you get that cat on your head to sit so still? 
Then his post totally doesn’t make sense. He said to replace Mr. T with 4-year-old. And the OP was Mr. T, so Robot should have been a 4-year-old. And now I really need to know the answer. 
Ironically, a lot of really small ones - she was dressed as the tollway that runs by our office. It really wasn’t as interesting as you’d think. More like a sandwich board with toy cars glued to it and a couple of highway signs.
superglue.
and sedatives.
I’m late to the party, but yes, that is an awesome costume.
Damn! You weren’t joking when you said you shaved.
Thanks to everyone for the compliments and commiseration.
In truth, it was all about fun and getting those “Oh, god…what did he do this time” looks. And I had plenty of both of those. And I was a hit at the kids’ old school’s annual Samhain Soup Day.
Now that hallowe’en is over, I no longer look like Mr. T; I got rid of the beard and am left with a mohawk, Fu Manchu (is there a more politically correct term for a moustache that goes to the chin?) and a soul patch. I look like a bad-ass mofo who don’t take no shit.
Funny thing is, nothing could be further from the truth.
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But since we’re on custumes and bats…
How come in the movies the batman rubber body suit has nips and batgirl doesn’t?
Total discrimination there.
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Yeah, you were robbed. Sucks man.
I’ve seen it called a “horseshoe style moustache”. I’m not sure that “Fu Manchu moustache” is really un-PC, though: it’s referring to a style conventionally associated with a particular fictional character, not to anything about Asians in general.
Although the character of Fu Manchu itself is definitely un-PC, ISTM that naming a moustache style after him is not a slur. Heck, we still speak of the “Hitler moustache” style, don’t we?
I know just how you feel, Swampwolf. A few years ago I dressed as Elektra for my office’s costume contest. I made a black leather outfit, spent weeks practicing with the sai, and grew my hair long so I wouldn’t have to wear a wig. I lost to a woman who came dressed as a Palm Beach socialite (ordinary dress pulled from her closet and a Yorkshire terrier in her purse). My coworkers were kind enough to be outraged on my behalf.
For what it’s worth, I would have voted for you.