# So You Have To Dress Like Your State for Halloween... **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 27, 2008, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-you-have-to-dress-like-your-state-for-halloween/465513 "2008-09-27T23:58:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2008, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-you-have-to-dress-like-your-state-for-halloween/465513/81 "2008-09-30T01:20:25Z")
> [@lobotomyboy63](#): > > Isn’t there something about rubbing the nose on Abe’s statue for good luck? Years ago, elder son and I went through Springfield and did just that. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2008, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-you-have-to-dress-like-your-state-for-halloween/465513/82 "2008-09-30T01:20:40Z")
Well as\*\* Green Bean\*\* is dressing as the state. I will either dress as a Garden State Parkway Exit sign 😉 or as a famous New Jerseyian. Now I am too heavy to dress as Bruce Springstein and I don’t think I could pull off Frank Sinatra, but I have the general body shape of Kevin Smith, so maybe I would go as Silent Bob. ---
**Author:** ![Euryphaessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Euryphaessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euryphaessa)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2008, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-you-have-to-dress-like-your-state-for-halloween/465513/83 "2008-09-30T01:49:20Z")
A salmon carrying a chocolate bar and an Acadian flag. I’m from New Brunswick. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2008, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-you-have-to-dress-like-your-state-for-halloween/465513/84 "2008-09-30T01:53:38Z")
> [@GingerOfTheNorth](#): > > > [@Green\_Bean](#): > > > > Now if I really wanted to get crazy, I could start adding little items all over the dress to symbolize bits of history, mythology, and current coolness. The list could go on and on…but one thing I would certainly do is embroider, somewhere on the Pine Barrens Skirt, a little Jersey Devil! > > Don’t forget the stinky southern part! That depends on what the meal served at the event is. > [@Harmonious\_Discord](#): > > I’d get Alberta if I knew it was Canada, but otherwise I’d wonder if it was Texas. Throw in a Canadian touk and I’d get it for sure. You’re close. Alberta is basically the Texas of Canada. Oil, cowboys, conservatives, etc. The name of the knitted cap is spelt ‘toque’ (or ‘tuque’), but I think ‘touk’ is a much more interesting way of spelling it, and worthy of adoption. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2008, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-you-have-to-dress-like-your-state-for-halloween/465513/85 "2008-09-30T02:03:06Z")
> [@eleanorigby](#): > > Nah–I’ve just been to Starved Rock a couple of times. It’s pretty there. I did the Chicago poem with my big shoulder pads, dude! (the pizza sounds good, though–I googled it). > > Hey, if I went as a penny, I could say this to all the cute guys and maybe get a date out of it:" Find a penny, pick it up; all the day you’ll have good luck!" > Now you see why I don’t date… You realize that the next line will be so if I pick you up I’ll get lucky? ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2008, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-you-have-to-dress-like-your-state-for-halloween/465513/86 "2008-09-30T02:08:57Z")
> [@Charger](#): > > Probably a badger wearing a cheesehead hat, carrying a pitcher of beer and a bloody butcher knife. That way you’ve got all of Wisconsin’s claims to fame represented: badgers, cheese, beer, and serial killers. I’d say wear a faux human skin suit if you want to go for Wisconsin serial killer. Dressing as a refrigerator with body parts in it would work too. Dahmer died about three miles from my house. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2008, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-you-have-to-dress-like-your-state-for-halloween/465513/87 "2008-09-30T03:47:37Z")
> [@Harmonious\_Discord](#): > > You realize that the next line will be so if I pick you up I’ll get lucky? Oh… [Emily Latella] never mind[/EL] ---
**Author:** ![pbbth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@pbbth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pbbth)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2008, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-you-have-to-dress-like-your-state-for-halloween/465513/88 "2008-09-30T03:56:54Z")
I could go as the Statue of Liberty. Or maybe a grey dress to represent all the construction and concrete with a big green square in the middle of it to represent Central Park. ---
**Author:** ![lizardling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f4b2a3/32.png) [@lizardling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lizardling)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2008, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-you-have-to-dress-like-your-state-for-halloween/465513/89 "2008-09-30T04:06:20Z")
Chuck Norris in a black Stetson. 😃 Or more generically, a cowboy in Lone Star regalia. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2008, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-you-have-to-dress-like-your-state-for-halloween/465513/90 "2008-09-30T04:15:07Z")
> [@lizardling](#): > > Chuck Norris in a black Stetson. 😃 Chuck Norris? Damn, you win the contest. (well unless we get a Wilford Brimley entry…) ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2008, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-you-have-to-dress-like-your-state-for-halloween/465513/91 "2008-09-30T06:53:02Z")
I would have to go as a guitar. (Memphis for blues, Nashville for country and East Tennessee for bluegrass/mountain music, all involving…guitars) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-you-have-to-dress-like-your-state-for-halloween/465513.md?page=4)