# What are you gonna be for Halloween? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 17, 2019, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-gonna-be-for-halloween/841888 "2019-10-17T04:08:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2019, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-gonna-be-for-halloween/841888/1 "2019-10-17T04:08:49Z")
I’m going to be [Frank Rossitano](https://carboncostume.com/frank-rossitano/) from 30 Rock. Got my hat (“Beef N Bean”), wig, big clunky black glasses, and I just shaved my beard into mutton chops tonight for a party this weekend. Will also probably dress up again to go trick-or-treating with the kiddos in a couple weeks. ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2019, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-gonna-be-for-halloween/841888/2 "2019-10-17T04:28:17Z")
I’m dressing up like a functioning member of society.😉 ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2019, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-gonna-be-for-halloween/841888/3 "2019-10-17T04:35:58Z")
I’m 46, slim, and I have a shaved head and goatee. I wear glasses (contacts now, but I can always break out my glasses again). I recently received the hazmat costume so I can fully embrace my inner [Walter White](http://www.thesmokinggun.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/175xUnlimited/photos/mrwhite.jpg). I’m planning to teach my classes on Halloween in costume. ---
**Author:** ![Tatterdemalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Tatterdemalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tatterdemalion)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2019, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-gonna-be-for-halloween/841888/4 "2019-10-17T04:51:47Z")
Unconscious ---
**Author:** ![Lancia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lancia/32/17174_2.png) [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2019, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-gonna-be-for-halloween/841888/5 "2019-10-17T05:07:07Z")
I still haven’t decided. Im fat, bearded, and balding. I teach at a boarding school, so whatever I do has to be PG-13 at most. I’ve been threatening for years to get a kilt and go as a highland warrior, but it’s too late to do it this year. So… I’m still pondering. ---
**Author:** ![Esprise\_Me](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprise_me/32/2947_2.png) [@Esprise\_Me](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprise_Me)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2019, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-gonna-be-for-halloween/841888/6 "2019-10-17T06:47:46Z")
My husband and I are going to be Babe Ruth Bader Ginsburg. If we don’t get at least five groans I’ll be disappointed. ---
**Author:** ![mjmlabs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mjmlabs/32/69_2.png) [@mjmlabs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mjmlabs)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2019, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-gonna-be-for-halloween/841888/7 "2019-10-17T11:49:28Z")
Same as every year: Jeremy Spencer Tracy Nelson Eddy Albert Gore Vidal Sassoon. It’s complicated but amusing. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21825_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2019, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-gonna-be-for-halloween/841888/8 "2019-10-17T11:58:02Z")
Hidden. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2019, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-gonna-be-for-halloween/841888/9 "2019-10-17T12:48:05Z")
I suck at costume design in October. Now, come November I’ll have dozens of ideas. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2019, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-gonna-be-for-halloween/841888/10 "2019-10-17T13:24:44Z")
Tipsy. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2019, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-gonna-be-for-halloween/841888/11 "2019-10-17T13:38:53Z")
**What are you gonna be for Halloween?** With any luck, taken into the spirit world. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2019, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-gonna-be-for-halloween/841888/12 "2019-10-17T14:34:10Z")
My team voted to rewind 50 years and all be hippies for the Halloween tournament. We’ve won the team costume contest 4 of the last 5 years, so there is some pressure here. I’ve got my wig, headband, vest, tie-dye T-shirt and peace medallion ready, and I think I have an old “Impeach Nixon” button around somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2019, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-gonna-be-for-halloween/841888/13 "2019-10-17T14:35:10Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > Tipsy. Amen to that. Along with St Patrick’s Day, xmas, easter, Arbor Day, NYE, MLK Day, etc, Halloween has become a big day for dranking. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2019, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-gonna-be-for-halloween/841888/14 "2019-10-17T14:37:34Z")
This year I was Boo-berry, the cereal ghost, for a Trunk or Treat event. I wasn’t able to do a “big costume” for the big party I go to every year…the theme was “decades” and a bunch of the party-goers are friends from high school so I just put on a shirt from high school and combat boots. They got it. I have one more party and still don’t have a costume so I’ll either dig out my nun costume, or just put in my cool vampire fangs and that’ll be it. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2019, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-gonna-be-for-halloween/841888/15 "2019-10-17T14:41:51Z")
Asleep. I have to get up at 3am the next morning. ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2019, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-gonna-be-for-halloween/841888/16 "2019-10-17T15:18:25Z")
I keep thinking I should go as a modern Cinderella - Grubby dirty clothes, a little dirt on the face, hair up in a sloppy bun/updo… And walk around wearing only one sneaker. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2019, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-gonna-be-for-halloween/841888/17 "2019-10-17T15:22:26Z")
I like it. And leave the other sneaker just outside the front door. Would be interesting to see if anyone could work it out and brought the missing sneaker to you. ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2019, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-gonna-be-for-halloween/841888/18 "2019-10-17T15:43:52Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > Tipsy. This. And probably cold. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2019, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-gonna-be-for-halloween/841888/19 "2019-10-17T16:46:37Z")
Steampunk vampire. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2019, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-gonna-be-for-halloween/841888/20 "2019-10-17T17:02:27Z")
I want to be Crazy Cat Lady. Buy a cheap robe, sew stuffed animal cats all over it, shower cap with foam rollers taped on. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-gonna-be-for-halloween/841888.md?page=2)