# Tell me your Halloween costume.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-halloween-costume/271558
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [October 27, 2004, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-halloween-costume/271558 "2004-10-27T23:02:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2004, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-halloween-costume/271558/21 "2004-10-28T19:54:32Z")
I have a daughter and a son. I wanted us to dress up as [The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy](http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/ShowMainServlet/showid-10057/The_Grim_Adventures_of_Billy_and_Mandy/). It would have worked really well and kids would know who we were. But now my daughter wants to be Cleopatra, so I’m not sure if it’s going to happen or not. I still might go as Grim.
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### Author:  [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2004, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-halloween-costume/271558/22 "2004-10-28T23:08:10Z")
I’m going as Dangermouse, white hoodie with homemade ears, DM patch and red and yellow belt.
Ardred’s going as Optimus Prime (card board boxes and tons of spray paint).
Yes, his costume transforms from semi truck to robot overlord.
The party we’re attending has a “saturday morning cartoons” theme.
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### Author:  [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2004, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-halloween-costume/271558/23 "2004-10-29T01:41:54Z")
I didn’t have enough money for an entire costume this year, so it was either bunny ears or red horns.
Plus the bow tie and tail.
So I am red this year.
So tempting to wear it Halloween morning at church.
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### Author:  [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2004, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-halloween-costume/271558/24 "2004-10-29T01:56:41Z")
I’m not quite sure what I’ll be doing. Tomorrow night a friend is having a “dress up like your favorite rock star” party, and I’m going as Shirley Manson because the hostess is dressing up as Bjork, and Robert Smith from the Cure is just too difficult a task and too tough on my hair.
Saturday night, I’ve got a halloween party. I may be a walking stereotype and dress kinda gothy [I’ve got goth tendencies, so this isn’t any more fun than dressing up to go out to a club or a regular party], or I may have the boyfriend make me dead for the night. I haven’t decided which will be easier.
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### Author:  [@Roland\_Orzabal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roland_Orzabal)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2004, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-halloween-costume/271558/25 "2004-10-29T02:24:18Z")
> [@Mirrored Indigo Shadows](#):
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> I’m not quite sure what I’ll be doing. Tomorrow night a friend is having a “dress up like your favorite rock star” party, and I’m going as Shirley Manson because the hostess is dressing up as Bjork, and Robert Smith from the Cure is just too difficult a task and too tough on my hair.
> Saturday night, I’ve got a halloween party. I may be a walking stereotype and dress kinda gothy [I’ve got goth tendencies, so this isn’t any more fun than dressing up to go out to a club or a regular party], or I may have the boyfriend make me dead for the night. I haven’t decided which will be easier.
If your friend is going to be Bjork, why not go for Thom Yorke? Just muss your hair, use some makeup to mess up your left eye [like so](http://www.brasil2000fm.com.br/imagens/Thom-Yorke.jpg), wear a black sweater, and you’ll be all set to perform the SelmaSongs duet. Plus it gives you an excuse to go off on barely-intelligible rants about government and corporate corruption. That is, if you’re so inclined.
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### Author:  [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2004, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-halloween-costume/271558/26 "2004-10-29T03:59:15Z")
My almost two year old daughter is going as a tiger.
After we get home I will spend the rest of the afternoon literally taking lots of candy from a baby. 😃
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### Author:  [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2004, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-halloween-costume/271558/27 "2004-10-29T06:02:39Z")
We are having a costume contest at noon tomorrow at work. Shortly before noon, I will sneak off to the restroom and dress:
Dark blue sport coat, white shirt, red tie.
Then I put on my new rubber Bush mask.
Pull out my mock up book of “The Pet Goat”.
I will then go to the conference room, sit in the corner, not say a word and stare off into space.
Seriously.
I wonder how the Bush fans (minority at work) are going to react. Will follow up in this thread tomorrow to let you know how it went.
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### Author:  [@Gregor\_Samsa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gregor_Samsa)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2004, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-halloween-costume/271558/28 "2004-10-29T06:16:52Z")
I’m going as a Catholic schoolgirl. I found a blue plaid skirt at Value Village along with a blue cardigan that reads “Sacred Heart of Mary School” and knee-high socks. I already have a white shirt so with the blonde wig I’m pretty much set. I just have to decide whether to shave my chest before I go.
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### Author:  [@Tracy\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tracy_Lord)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2004, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-halloween-costume/271558/29 "2004-10-29T09:23:13Z")
War, a la Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s personification in _Good Omens_.
Red knee-high boots; black slacks; white ketchup-spattered shirt; red jacket; RED lipstick; red fedora. (I am a war correspondent, after all. And I think war correspondents are required by law to wear fedoras.) Also a hotass sword to stick in my belt loop, with the hilt spray-painted – you guessed it – red.
Rumors of the impending apocalypse have been greatly exaggerated.
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### Author:  [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2004, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-halloween-costume/271558/30 "2004-10-29T12:44:35Z")
> [@FilmGeek](#):
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> I’m going as Dangermouse, white hoodie with homemade ears, DM patch and red and yellow belt.
[Penfold]Cor![/Penfold]
I wish they had parties like that around here, I might be motivated enough to get a costume together.
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### Author:  [@False\_God](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/False_God)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2004, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-halloween-costume/271558/31 "2004-10-29T13:17:31Z")
I’ll be Wolverine. I already have the hair and attitude, I just need the claws- which I got made to spec for a dollar here, then jiggerey-pokered a grip. Since it 30C outside, this’ll be the jeans-and-a t-shirt Logan rather than anything involving leather.
The wife is going as Rogue.
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### Author:  [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2004, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-halloween-costume/271558/32 "2004-10-29T13:48:25Z")
> [@Rufus Xavier](#):
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> I will be wearing a caveman costume, a huge shaggy black wig and giant shaggy black fake beard.
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> I will be wearing a Red Sox Cap and carrying a giant inflatable baseball bat.
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> Johnny Damon.
correction:
Scratch the caveman costume. Now it is:
Crimson satin robe
Red Devil-head mask with long black hair and long black beard
Red Sox cap
**Johnny Demon**
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### Author:  [@Vevila](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vevila)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2004, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-halloween-costume/271558/33 "2004-10-29T14:16:54Z")
I am a ladybug, and apparently the only person who cared enough to dress in costume at work ☹
I made the “shell” out of red posterboard with black posterboard spots, tied handily around my neck with some yarn. My antenna I made out of a headband, pipecleaners, and yarn for the, um, deelyboppers at the top. I covered the pipecleaners with black duct tape to give it more stability. The rest of the costume consists of a black sweatshirt and black jeans, with two more arms (made out of black knee high socks stuffed with plastic grocery bags) attached at a little higher than hip level.
Now I’m running around calling everyone at work old because they didn’t dress up.
😃
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### Author:  [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2004, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-halloween-costume/271558/34 "2004-10-29T14:47:15Z")
As I type this, I am wearing Michaela’s Halloween costume at my workstation. She will be a witch. Out of respect for the costume, I have decided to not try the dress. What I AM wearing is a faux-velour cape, trimmed with faux fur, in basic black. The fur trim is enhanced with strands of silvery tinsel (I suppose the intended effect is to suggest that the animal that provided the fur was of an advanced age). The collar of the cape is made of a puffy batting, covered with glittery black-and-silver fabric. The hem of the cape barely conceals my gluteals.
For the rest of my ensemble, I am wearing charcoal-grey slacks, a gunmetal grey long-sleeved shirt, and black running shoes with Velcro[sup]TM[/sup] straps.
Atop my head I am wearing a long black Gypsy-princess wig, topped with your standard pointy witch’s hat (it is sized for the head of an eight-year old girl, BTW, rather than a forty-eight-year old man, and I am without bobby pins, so the hat is perched somewhat precariously).
I have hopes of getting at least an Honorable Mention (most pathetic attempt) at today’s workplace costume competition. Wish me luck, and I will report back with the good news and the bad (warts and all, so to speak) after the judging.
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### Author:  [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2004, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-halloween-costume/271558/35 "2004-10-29T14:58:54Z")
Also, I just noticed that the hat is trimmed similarly to the cape, where the crown meets the brim.
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### Author:  [@Guy\_Incognito\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guy_Incognito_1)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2004, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-halloween-costume/271558/36 "2004-10-29T15:15:17Z")
My SO and I will be turning our pockets out, carrying around our empty wallets and begging for change, as we go to a Halloween party as new homeowners. We close today.
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### Author:  [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2004, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-halloween-costume/271558/37 "2004-10-29T15:29:33Z")
> [@Jayn\_Newell](#):
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> Drunken university student. Well, that’ll be me at the bar Saturday night. Sunday I’ll probably be a hungover university student.
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> If I can find the dress for it (unlikely, given the amount of time I have left), I want to dress up as Lust from Full Metal Alchemist. I can’t post a picture as I can’t find one, but she wears a strapless black dress and gloves. She looks, well, like someone men would lust over.
[Is this Lust?](http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.we-love-anime.com/gallery/gal/Full%2520Metal%2520Alchemist/_thb_Full%2520Metal%2520Alchemist01001.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.we-love-anime.com/gallery/index.php%3Fg%3DFull%2520Metal%2520Alchemist&h=168&w=156&sz=15&tbnid=498sMDyP57kJ:&tbnh=92&tbnw=86&start=24&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dfull%2Bmetal%2Balchemist%26start%3D20%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26sa%3DN)Go to pic. 48 of 61.
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### Author:  [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2004, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-halloween-costume/271558/38 "2004-10-29T15:33:30Z")
> [@CandidGamera](#):
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> [Penfold]Cor![/Penfold]
>
> I wish they had parties like that around here, I might be motivated enough to get a costume together.
And this is why we should live in closer proximity.
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### Author:  [@Jayn\_Newell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayn_Newell)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2004, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-halloween-costume/271558/39 "2004-10-29T15:49:53Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#):
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> [Is this Lust?](http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.we-love-anime.com/gallery/gal/Full%2520Metal%2520Alchemist/_thb_Full%2520Metal%2520Alchemist01001.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.we-love-anime.com/gallery/index.php%3Fg%3DFull%2520Metal%2520Alchemist&h=168&w=156&sz=15&tbnid=498sMDyP57kJ:&tbnh=92&tbnw=86&start=24&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dfull%2Bmetal%2Balchemist%26start%3D20%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26sa%3DN)Go to pic. 48 of 61.
Yup, that’s her. Pic 21 is also her, but in disguise (oh, how original, a cloak…)
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### Author:  [@5que](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5que)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2004, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-halloween-costume/271558/40 "2004-10-29T16:22:33Z")
Me, Elvis, but I can barely fit into the costume. Come to think of it, that makes it more Elvis-like.
If anyone needs ideas, go [here](http://www.thestranger.com/current/special.html) (with lovely pics!):
Florida’s Electronic Touch-Screen Voting Machines
Arrested Protester
Nancy Reagan
Western Hostage in Iraq
The Littlest Prisoner at Abu Ghraib
Ralph Nader
Lyndie England
“Shoe Bomber” Richard Reid
Jenna Bush’s Liver
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