# Your favorite Halloween costume (with pictures!) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 24, 2004, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-halloween-costume-with-pictures/261210 "2004-08-24T03:10:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![PussyCow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/22d042/32.png) [@PussyCow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PussyCow)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-halloween-costume-with-pictures/261210/1 "2004-08-24T03:10:09Z")
Well, Halloween is coming! It’s my favorite holiday. I’m sure a thread like this has been done before (I think I actually responded to it 😛 ), but I thought it would be fun to do it again and with pictures (or not, your choice). What is your favorite costume that you have worn/will wear. Here’s mine [closeup](http://www.ofoto.com/PhotoView.jsp?&collid=481740585105&photoid=773600685105) and [full body shot](http://www.ofoto.com/PhotoView.jsp?&collid=481740585105&photoid=973600685105). Can you guess what I am? And the witty comments begin… ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-halloween-costume-with-pictures/261210/2 "2004-08-24T03:26:18Z")
They don’t celebrate Halloween in Australia, and it’s my favourite holiday of the year :(. I’ve tried having a Halloween party a few times but everyone comes in really half assed what-the-hell-am-I-dressing-up-for costumes. So my favourite costume dates back to my Canadian days, when my brother and I discovered the joy that is liquid latex: we painted our faces red, covered them in liquid latex and when it dried painted them white. We could then go up to people and rip our faces off quite convincingly :). ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-halloween-costume-with-pictures/261210/3 "2004-08-24T03:26:47Z")
I wish I had a picture - I might have one at work, if so I will link it up tomorrow. Last year for Halloween, I was Nothing. I wore all black - black robe, black shoes, black pants, black hood, with a black mask that obscured 100% of my face. It was really neat. I could see out, but no one could see in. I had a voice alteration gizmo hooked up so no one could tell who I was all day. Later, I wore the garb to a party where I only knew a couple of people. I have never been more gregarious than I was that evening. For some reason, the knowledge that no one could see what I looked like made it really easy for me to approach people and start up conversations. I now call the costume ‘instant ego boost’. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![JoeSki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b487fb/32.png) [@JoeSki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoeSki)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-halloween-costume-with-pictures/261210/4 "2004-08-24T03:32:42Z")
My coolest costume was essentialy me in a skeleton mask wearing black clothes…with my pet ball python crawling through the eye sockets on the mask 🙂 . Most people thought it was fake, and the pretty that discovered it was real jumped out of their shoes. Good times. ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-halloween-costume-with-pictures/261210/5 "2004-08-24T03:35:02Z")
My favorite costume of my wife’s was one from 14 years ago that people that were at the party still talk about. She put on a torn flapper-style thrift shop dress, stage jewelry, heavy makeup, put her hair up, then she jumped in the shower for a minute. When she got out, she draped a couple strands of fake seaweed over her shoulders and carried a plank of wood with the writing ‘RMS Titanic’ on it to the party. Hilarity ensued. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-halloween-costume-with-pictures/261210/6 "2004-08-24T04:13:59Z")
Here’s [last year’s](http://www.evilblog.net/archives/000972.html) (scroll to the bottom). I’m quite proud of it. ---
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-halloween-costume-with-pictures/261210/7 "2004-08-24T04:22:52Z")
> [@PussyCow](#): > > Can you guess what I am? And the witty comments begin… I was going to guess that you were a neuron or something (I’m a nerd), but the first link identifies you as a sea monkey. I like the neuron idea better, but like I said, I’m a nerd. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-halloween-costume-with-pictures/261210/8 "2004-08-24T04:25:52Z")
I thought she was a new Teletubby. The SpermTubby or something. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![JoeSki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b487fb/32.png) [@JoeSki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoeSki)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-halloween-costume-with-pictures/261210/9 "2004-08-24T05:45:40Z")
> [@iamthewalrus(:3=](#): > > Here’s [last year’s](http://www.evilblog.net/archives/000972.html) (scroll to the bottom). > > I’m quite proud of it. You’re description of that movie had me in stitches. I’m going to have to check it out some day real soon. ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-halloween-costume-with-pictures/261210/10 "2004-08-24T09:57:21Z")
[Here’s me](http://www.suzi-quzi.com/costume.jpg) in a costume I had borrowed from my cousin. Perfect picture for red eye. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![PussyCow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/22d042/32.png) [@PussyCow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PussyCow)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-halloween-costume-with-pictures/261210/11 "2004-08-24T13:23:23Z")
> [@AwSnappity](#): > > I was going to guess that you were a neuron or something (I’m a nerd), but the first link identifies you as a sea monkey. I like the neuron idea better, but like I said, I’m a nerd. Aw man, would help if I read the captions. Oh well. When I first made the costume’s headpiece and tried it on I showed it to PenisBull. I said “how do I look? Do I look like a seamonkey?” He just laughed. My nickname for the evening was “The Triple Johnson Attack”. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-halloween-costume-with-pictures/261210/12 "2004-08-24T14:48:11Z")
My favorite for the ladies is a lil red devil. Or a trailer-tramp pixie. For the guys, you can’t beat a gorilla wearing a tutu. ---
**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-halloween-costume-with-pictures/261210/13 "2004-08-24T15:22:02Z")
> [@PussyCow](#): > > My nickname for the evening was “The Triple Johnson Attack”. OMG, I about spit all over my monitor. You need to change your name!!! Or start a band and call it that. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-halloween-costume-with-pictures/261210/14 "2004-08-24T15:30:17Z")
Here’s me as [Foghorn Leghorn.](http://www.euk.seriouscybernetics.net/images/DCP01887.JPG) Another year, the party theme was Come As Your Favorite Tabloid Story. Here’s me as [the Lovechild of Bigfoot and Elvis.](http://www.euk.seriouscybernetics.net/images/mvc-002f.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-halloween-costume-with-pictures/261210/15 "2004-08-24T15:32:26Z")
> [@iamthewalrus(:3=](#): > > Here’s [last year’s](http://www.evilblog.net/archives/000972.html) (scroll to the bottom). > > I’m quite proud of it. Oh, Lord, that’s WONDERFUL! My brother wanted to go as Torgo one year, but never did it. I have no idea what I’m doing this year but it must involve a sword, because my mom just got me one. My mom is cool. ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-halloween-costume-with-pictures/261210/16 "2004-08-24T15:44:35Z")
> [@whiterabbit](#): > > Oh, Lord, that’s WONDERFUL! My brother wanted to go as Torgo one year, but never did it. > > I have no idea what I’m doing this year but it must involve a sword, because my mom just got me one. My mom is cool. Welll, my mom was less than cool about the one I’m holding in that pic. Could it be because I walked over to her house, in full costume, snuck into the back where she was doing the laundry and scared the beejeezus out of her? 😛 I still have a scar on my ankle from my dumb-butt boyfriend (at the time) not watching how he was swinging that thing while carrying it. :rolleyes: He was wearing the costume and I was a kender. ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-halloween-costume-with-pictures/261210/17 "2004-08-24T15:51:26Z")
[Here I am!](http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/rxsarsparilla/detail?.dir=506c&.dnm=2a1e.jpg) …or am I? 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Roland\_Orzabal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@Roland\_Orzabal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roland_Orzabal)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-halloween-costume-with-pictures/261210/18 "2004-08-24T16:13:26Z")
Interesting timing on this thread, because I just got last Halloween’s pictures back and I was thinking of posting them. I dressed up as Spike Spiegel of Cowboy Bebop fame, and my friend Ben dressed up as…Ed. Some of the pics are pretty interesting; we took a decidedly different angle on the whole Spike/Ed interaction (and no, you pervs, I _don’t_ mean it like that). Throw in another friend as some random murderer clad in black robes whose weapon is The Bloody Cloth, and you’ve got a photoshoot. Unfortunately, I don’t have a scanner. I shall return to this thread in a day or two, after I have visited with more technologically-enabled friends. Until then, keep posting; these are great! –Ian ---
**Author:** ![PussyCow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/22d042/32.png) [@PussyCow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PussyCow)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-halloween-costume-with-pictures/261210/19 "2004-08-24T16:33:08Z")
Hey **harmless** , that’s your work? Beautiful drawings. Thanks for sharing. I just thought of another costume a friend of mine had an idea for. Don’t know if she ever did it though. She was gonna make 2 huge red dots out of cardboard fastened together with straps that go over the shoulder (so a red dot on the front and back of the body). On the dots is written “you are here” ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-halloween-costume-with-pictures/261210/20 "2004-08-24T17:14:19Z")
Even better: On the one in front, write “You are here.” On the one in back, write “You may be here…” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-halloween-costume-with-pictures/261210.md?page=2)