# So, what are YOU for Halloween? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 31, 2001, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-for-halloween/90642 "2001-10-31T01:59:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2001, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-for-halloween/90642/21 "2001-10-31T19:02:07Z")
It’s a safe bet that **seawitch** is much better looking than **Nell Campbell** nowadays. ---
**Author:** ![absoul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc8723/32.png) [@absoul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/absoul)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2001, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-for-halloween/90642/22 "2001-10-31T19:04:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Monster104 \* > \*\*I will be dressed in the standard Best Buy uniform. I will further disguise myself by going to the store, clocking in, and working a shift, all so I can have a realistic costume… \*\* Well… I’ll see ya in a little bit. I’ll be dressed up as the disgruntled customer who just had to haul his two month old 19" two ton moniter back to customer service for the 18th time. Shall we put on a good show? 😃 No, really I’ll see you in a little bit. ---
**Author:** ![TheNerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/858c86/32.png) [@TheNerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheNerd)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2001, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-for-halloween/90642/23 "2001-10-31T19:25:11Z")
I’m probably not going anywhere where costumes would be expected, but I might wear something subtle anyway. I’m thinking either Ash from the Evil Dead movies (khakis, blue shirt, bloody bandage at the end of my right arm), or Tim from the future, from the online comic strip Bobbins. White tshirt, jeans, teapot, and an eyepatch. [http://www.bobbins.org/d/20010619.html](http://www.bobbins.org/d/20010619.html) ---
**Author:** ![bunnymom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c4cdca/32.png) [@bunnymom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bunnymom)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2001, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-for-halloween/90642/24 "2001-10-31T19:33:55Z")
seawitch - You are too cool! bunnymom, a Regular Frankie Fan ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2001, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-for-halloween/90642/25 "2001-10-31T19:39:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by GingerOfTheNorth \* > \*\*I am going as an underpaid, overworked, overtired, single parent to a child with ADHD. My costume comes complete with bloodshot eyes and the complimentary purple bags underneath them; the minus bank balance, and the ragged fingernails at fretting over the pile of bills. If that’s not scary, I don’t know what is. > \*\* Dammit! That’s _exactly_ what I am this year! ---
**Author:** ![Grimace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3e96dc/32.png) [@Grimace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grimace)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2001, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-for-halloween/90642/26 "2001-10-31T19:42:14Z")
I’ll be sitting at home handing out treats to the young’uns, dressup up in my SCA gear…Kilt, Tunic, Claymore etc, etc. The kids seem to love it every year. ---
**Author:** ![whatmove](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecc23a/32.png) [@whatmove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whatmove)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2001, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-for-halloween/90642/27 "2001-10-31T19:50:31Z")
I am currently wearing a big fuzzy white die with red dots. To complement it, I also have another that hangs off my neck, a 4-foot cardboard rear-view mirror on my head, and a giant pine tree car freshener. I’ll post a picture as soon as I can. I’m very happy with the way _this_ year’s last-minute costume turned out. 🙂 (although I have no idea how it will work out at the bars) ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2001, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-for-halloween/90642/28 "2001-10-31T19:54:04Z")
> [@](#): > > So, what are YOU for Halloween? Not-quite-suicidally depressed. And you? ---
**Author:** ![Tiburon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e36b37/32.png) [@Tiburon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tiburon)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2001, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-for-halloween/90642/29 "2001-10-31T20:25:24Z")
I’m Gilligan. Red, long sleeve shirt with a white collar, white sailor’s hat, jeans (wide leg flares) with white tennis shoes. Everyone else in the office is another character - complete with 2 jungle natives. Tiburon ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2001, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-for-halloween/90642/30 "2001-10-31T21:35:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Chef Troy \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by TroubleAgain \* > > \*\*I’m wearing black and orange, and I have a pair of really realistic looking horns on my head. It’s a very subtle thing, so most people talk to me for a couple of minutes before realizing I have horns. I’ll try to post a picture somewhere if I get a few minutes. \*\* > > Gee, nobody ever has any trouble telling when I’M horny. _grin_ > > \*\* I’ve been asked more than once today if I’m [horny.](http://albums.photopoint.com/j/ViewPhoto?u=12906&a=34565&p=55866649&f=0) ---
**Author:** ![SavedByJesus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@SavedByJesus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SavedByJesus)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2001, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-for-halloween/90642/31 "2001-10-31T23:52:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by stuffinb \* > \*\*Satan, or a minor devil. I have horns and a tail. I already has a mustache and goatee. You’d think these people around here would be a little old for pulling my tail. \*\* It’s this kind of thing that makes me worry about Halloween in general. Maybe this is for another thread, but gosh, don’t you worry that you might arouse some kind of ire by mocking both the one true GOD and Satan himself? I know that the tract stories are exaggerated, but Halloween is the continuation of a Pagan ritual night, and I’m always uncomfortable at living in a society that works so comfortably with the false gods of years past. SBJ ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-for-halloween/90642/32 "2001-11-01T00:00:13Z")
Already posted to **Shirley’s** Wiccan tread, but I’ll say it again: **SavedbyJesus,** witnessing belongs in Great Debates. Please read the forum guidelines before making any more posts. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-for-halloween/90642/33 "2001-11-01T00:00:27Z")
C’mon, SBJ, first you invade a perfectly peaceful Wiccan thread, and now this. FTR, Halloween was first codified as a holiday by Pope Gregory III in the 8th century when he moved All Saints Day to November 1, making October 31 All Hallows Eve, or Hallow’een. If you’re going to preach, at least get your facts straight, will ya? Halloween is a Christian holiday. Sheesh! ---
**Author:** ![tisiphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@tisiphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tisiphone)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-for-halloween/90642/34 "2001-11-01T00:05:27Z")
This year’s last-minute costume was a demon. Black skin, silver lips, nails and hair, fangs, and batwings. Pretty good, but I do leave black smudges everywhere. ---
**Author:** ![bwk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@bwk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bwk)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-for-halloween/90642/35 "2001-11-01T00:50:26Z")
Well, I am quite cleverly disguised as a bored, very domestically inclined housewife who needs to get three or four stories written before tomorrow. I just lit the jack-o-lantern. I made dinner. Did laundry. Talked on the phone to mother and sister. _sigh_ Not one trick or treater yet. It’s a shame, we have good stuff. Individual packs of candy corn, glow in the dark peace signs, plastic house flies and bats, and change, in case anyone is collecting for unicef. The stupid trick or treaters would be the highlight of the night. I have no parties to go to. I’ve never been to a costume party, can you believe it? uh-oh, my costume is changing… ahh… now I’ve turned into – a bitching chick!!! scareeeeeee. I do have a Halloween page with my kitties on there… if you want to stop by. [http://home.hiwaay.net/~keiper/boo.htm](http://home.hiwaay.net/~keiper/boo.htm) ---
**Author:** ![ladybug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/46a35a/32.png) [@ladybug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladybug)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-for-halloween/90642/36 "2001-11-01T01:15:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by bwk \* > \*\*I do have a Halloween page with my kitties on there… if you want to stop by. > > [Boo!](http://home.hiwaay.net/~keiper/boo.htm) \*\* Oooooo … cute kitties! 🙂 Those are some nice pictures, **bwk**. ---
**Author:** ![bwk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@bwk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bwk)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-for-halloween/90642/37 "2001-11-01T01:39:02Z")
Thank you 🙂 I always love to hear compliments on my fuzzy babies. ---
**Author:** ![JadedNaive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/59ef9b/32.png) [@JadedNaive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JadedNaive)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-for-halloween/90642/38 "2001-11-01T04:20:40Z")
I wasn’t planning to dress up, but I got bored and restless waiting for trick-or-treaters. First I dressed in black jeans and a black long-sleeve shirt. Then I added black gloves, socks and shoes. A while later I found a black cape my brother wore a few years ago. I am currently also wearing a Santa hat and waving an American flag. I’m not anything particularly, and a few kids have been confused, but I find my attire amusing, and that’s the reason I dressed up after all 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Creaky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@Creaky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creaky)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-for-halloween/90642/39 "2001-11-01T07:40:07Z")
Okay… I was planning to go out tonight as Marie Antoinette, complete with white powdered wig and hoop skirt, but I belatedly realized that the costume was at my mom and dad’s house, and too far to go to get it in time for the big night. So I went as a Norwegian Ass Pixie. Black and white striped tights, black and white striped stocking cap, red Raggedy Ann wool wig, little black and white striped mini dress, black high-heeled ankle boots. Basically just stuff I pulled out of the closet at the last minute. I have NO idea what a Norwegian Ass Pixie is, but it sounded like a good idea. I went to a local karaoke bar and howled. Badly. It was great! I’ll do better next year, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Darkscyde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@Darkscyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darkscyde)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-for-halloween/90642/40 "2001-11-01T08:33:15Z")
I dressed up as an Asian goth child! Wha??..Yes I know I’m white…that’s beside the point! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-for-halloween/90642.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-are-you-for-halloween/90642.md?page=3)