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Halloween Costumes for 2002?
sukottoX asks: "The creepy yet fun holiday of Halloween is just a few weeks away. I'm wondering what sorts of costumes the Slashdot community is planning to wear to this year's Halloween parties (or to trick-or-treating for the younger readers). Looks like this year's big movies, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, and Harry Potter are gonna be pretty popular. I went as Nick Burns last year (MOVE!). Anyone have some good suggestions?"
me.Women weep and children cry when I go by already,no need for a stinkin' costume.
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I am still trying to track down the elusive CowboyNeal costume. I was going to go as CmdrTaco, but I just wanna scare the kids, not make 'em cry. :)
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Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
Admit it, the only reason you went as Nick Burns is because you didn't have to dress up for it anyway.
I was holidaying in San fransisco a couple of years ago during halloween, and I have to say, you USians do the whole thing a damn site better than us europeans.
The best costume I saw was this guy dressed as Jesus. We saw him walking to the nightclub with barefeet and only a white cloth draped around his privates, a crown of thorns, and a life size cross over his shoulder. Arriving at the nightclub, he immediatly got in a heated argument with someone dressed as the devil. He then spent the rest of the night tied to his cross, swaying in the middle of the dancefloor.
Later that night, we were desperately trying to get a cab home.... and we saw jesus walk past, cross over shoulder. "Hey, jesus" I shouted "can you get us a cab???"
Jesus:
"In this town, thats one miracle even I cant peform."
... for New Year I went as a robot in honour of Robot Frank. IIRC there are some photos of what he did one halloween himself on his site.
For halloween two years ago I went as a werewolf, with all the fangs, hair etc. I got drunk and tried scaring all the passengers on a bus. Unlucky for me, it turned out that one of them was my mother and she recognised me straight away! One of the more embarrassing moments of my life...
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I'm going to dress up as a pirate. I'll have a steering wheel mounted on my crotch.
If anybody asks I'll say, "Arrghhh... Its driving me nuts!".
... the comic book guy from the simpsons.
No costume required for me.
Why not dress up as a CEO of a large corporation?
If you work at a publicly traded or SEC regulated company... Go to work on Halloween as an SEC inspector. Back in 1999, I did this at the company I worked for. It was a financial company and the letters S-E-C always scared them anyway. I won the prize for scariest costume and once the CEO found out, he told his secretary not to even let me walk by his office. And when he gave out the different prizes, he flipped me off instead of shaking my hand. It was hilarious. And with today's "corporate cilmate", I'm sure a lot of companies would react the same way. The costume is easy... Just wear a suit and make a name badge and some business cards with the SEC logo on it.
When I was in art school, I once had a costume that was " the crisis in existential thought " ( there was some ongoing argument among the grad students that provided the context that made this hilarious to my peers )
If I were going to a Geek oriented halloween party I would go as an uninitialized pointer.
You could get away with just about anything you wanted to wear ot not wear. For extra points you could abruptly change costumes or try to wear other peoples costumes. Declaring the beverage area "address zero" and constantly going there or sending others there could be part of the costume.
Of course if you aren't careful people will just think you are just a jerk who forgot their costume, and is drinking all the beer.
hehe, you should pick his "Idaho" costume.
"I'm Idaho!"
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found out severl people were going as lions
I once went as a lion, but I wore a polka-dot shirt and pants, and carried a sign that read "do not feed".
When people asked me what I was, I said I was just carrying the "Sign on the dotted lion."
Another time I wrapped myself in tinfoil and wore a chicken head.
Nobody got that one at all - (Silver Poulet)
If you have 3 or 8 friends - you should all dress up as doctors - then tell people that you are "4 out of 5 doctors agree" or "9 out of 10 doctors recommend"
and go around agreeing with everything - or recommending everything.
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