So, What's Your Halloween Costume?

Joe270 · Oct 14, 2007

I'm known for my completely outrageous Halloween costumes.

I have won contests with costumes such as the Nick Nolte mug shot, Martha Stewart Living. . .Behind Bars, and a blue-skinned Kursk submariner.

First, understand that I'm a fifty year old chubby dude. I could stand to lose 10 or 50 pounds.

This year I'm going as Britney Spears. I've got a bald skull cap thingy, but I still need a sequined bikini, some fishnet stockings, and a baby doll I can drop frequently.

It's nice to have a costume that I can drink and smoke all I like in. Sorta completes the picture. I might put some powdered sugar under my nostrils.

So what are you dressing up as for Halloween?

Susie · Oct 14, 2007

Haven't decided yet what we'll be going as, though bet it'll be interesting.

billythrilly7th · Oct 14, 2007

The Man From Space or a Pinball Machine.

I'm not sure yet.

Joe270 · Oct 14, 2007

Susie, my wife and I once whipped up a costume fast. She dressed in a cardboard box I painted red, with arm and leg holes cut in it. I dressed in a pair of overalls with a flannel shirt and stuffed a trowel in my back pocket.

A brick and a brick layer.

joetrain · Oct 14, 2007

Joe270 said:
First, understand that I'm a fifty year old chubby dude. I could stand to lose 10 or 50 pounds.

This year I'm going as Britney Spears.

almost like not dressin up at all

Joe270 · Oct 14, 2007

almost like not dressin up at all

Sorta dressin' down, ain't it?

I just hope it doesn't turn cold.

joetrain · Oct 14, 2007

the colder the more realistic i'd say

Cassiopeia · Oct 14, 2007

I just figure I will go out as myself.

I will be in the UK and figure that an American on the loose is scary enough.

Joe270 · Oct 14, 2007

Oh, absolutely, all you need is a "Vote Bush, 2008" sign and you'll be the ~~target of ridicule~~ life of the party.

Cassiopeia · Oct 14, 2007

Joe270 said:
Oh, absolutely, all you need is a "~~Vote Bush, 2008~~" sign and you'll be the ~~target of ridicule~~ life of the party.

I'm sorry but I must insist that you NOT use foul language when addressing me, Joseph.

*giggles and wanders off*

rhymegirl · Oct 15, 2007

ELVIRA.

Zelenka · Oct 15, 2007

Joe270 said:
Susie, my wife and I once whipped up a costume fast. She dressed in a cardboard box I painted red, with arm and leg holes cut in it. I dressed in a pair of overalls with a flannel shirt and stuffed a trowel in my back pocket.

A brick and a brick layer.

Oh, I want to be a brick too! :hooray:

I was going to wear my silver catsuit and purple wig and just go as some sort of non descript space alien chick but then I took my figure into account and decided to spare humanity from that horror...

jodiodi · Oct 15, 2007

The usual ... princess goddess.

CaroGirl · Oct 15, 2007

I'm going to wear glasses and a rumpled sport coat with elbow patches. I will smoke a pipe. I'm going as a writer.

auntybug · Oct 15, 2007

Sorry - picture was icky - last year I made a dresser of foam & had a lampshade hat - I was a "One Night stand".

Bmwhtly · Oct 15, 2007

Buglet, I was going to rep you a *groan* for that pun. But I got an error message, so I'll just tell you

JonathanMaberry · Oct 15, 2007

I'm doing a reading from my latest novel (Dead Man's Song) on Halloween at the McNally Robinson bookstore...and the theme of the event's costumes is to come as a literary character or author. I'm planning to come as my pen name (which I used for one book), but since I've stopped using that pen name I'll be coming as the 'decesased' version.

Shadow_Ferret · Oct 15, 2007

I outgrew the whole costume thing when I was a child. I find adults who dress up to be....well, creepy.

sunna · Oct 15, 2007

I've been the same thing for - well, this year will make it three years - because I spent so much time on my costume and it looks, if I may say so, pretty kickass. Kind of a fall fairy queen thing. I took a bridesmaid's dress set I knew I'd never be wearing again and sewed sparkly leaves all over the skirt and halter top-vest, and made a bell sleeved gold shirt to go underneath the vest. Then I made a big billow-y cloak and covered it in the same leaves, so if I'm wearing that I just look like a sparkly leaf pile.

It's so much fun to wear, especially when bar hopping.

Azraelsbane · Oct 15, 2007

I'm not sure yet. I do know I'll be going to the door with my snake on my arm, just to scare kiddies. When I was about 14 I dressed up as a soldier (camos and such), and at about five or six houses I went to the guy giving candy said, "Oh wow, a Vietnam Vet, that's an awesome costume!" Yeah, I'm in a wheelchair. LOL I never even thought about that.

auntybug · Oct 15, 2007

Shadow_Ferret said:
I outgrew the whole costume thing when I was a child. I find adults who dress up to be....well, creepy.

We don't stop playing because we grow old - we grow old becuase we stop playing!

Buggy - off with Peter Pan - I aint ever growin' up :e2tongue:

maestrowork · Oct 15, 2007

Shadow_Ferret · Oct 15, 2007

auntybug said:
We don't stop playing because we grow old - we grow old becuase we stop playing!

Buggy - off with Peter Pan - I aint ever growin' up

I still think its creepy. But to be honest, I was never into costumes even when I was a kid. I did it to get candy, not because I found any enjoyment in it.

BenPanced · Oct 15, 2007

Yeah, I quit the costume thing a zillion years ago, too. Call me old/bitter/frustrated/whatevs, I just can't get into it any longer.

maestrowork · Oct 15, 2007

BenPanced said:
Yeah, I quit the costume thing a zillion years ago, too. Call me old/bitter/frustrated/whatevs, I just can't get into it any longer.

Or was it because the Xena outfit got a bit too tight...?

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