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In the spirit of the upcoming (and my personal favorite) Halloween holiday, share a childhood memory and post your lamest/weirdest/dumbest Halloween costume you've ever made or worn.

I'll start - it's a tie between my bunny witch (a white bunny costume with a black cape and Witch's hat) and my dryad (green, green, and more green).

In the spirit of the upcoming (and my personal favorite) Halloween holiday, share a childhood memory and post your lamest/weirdest/dumbest Halloween costume you've ever made or worn.

I'll start - it's a tie between my bunny witch (a white bunny costume with a black cape and Witch's hat) and my dryad (green, green, and more green).

During the height of my Trek-dom, sometime during middleschool, a bunch of us all went as Star Trek crew members. I got a fairly generic shirt from TNG, but it fit very poorly. It also didn't come with pants, so it didn't quite match the lower part of my body. Luckily, the whole thing wasn't too embarrasing simply because there were far worse costumes around that year. But so help me, NO MORE STAR TREK COSTUMES!!!

I once went as a friend of mine... I thought it was funny, he did too, but everyone else didn't get it.

Mine would have to be...a bedsheet. Unfortunatly that's the only halloween costume I've ever worn. Halloween isn't really celebrated that much in Australia. Why do the American's get all the fun... :mad:

Ooh... and a guy I know once went as a pencil, but he looked more like someone from the KKK.

Mine would have to be...a bedsheet. Unfortunatly that's the only halloween costume I've ever worn. Halloween isn't really celebrated that much in Australia. Why do the American's get all the fun... :mad:

hehe, I think I know you. You go to Sydney uni?

that costume sucked arse.

I was a vampire wizard once. My wizard costume was incomplete so my mum spent hours convincing me to take the cape, grab some fangs and go as a vampire instead. I refused point blank to not go as a wizard, so she just started trying to convince me to wear the fangs.

There's only so much nagging a nine year old can stand, so eventually I was a wizard with fangs.

Nearly every costume I've worn has been lame, from the bib style Star Wars costumes to the hap-hazard generic superhero from left over costume bits when I hadn't prepared for halloween. I had an obsession with 'death' costumes for a few years, yet was never a particularly morbid kid, so I was never able to sell it. My one foray into 'school spirit' was with the death costume-it was supposed to be some sort of death day, which seemed a bit of an extreme thing to wish on an opposing schools football team, especially since I didn't know which one it was going to be. I wore the death costume because I had it. Someone chided me for wearing a ninja costume. Even though he was immediately capped on by everyone around him for not noticing that it was a robe, it still punctuated how lame I felt for going along with that crap in the first place.

Once I started getting paid to dress up (I was a character performer at kids birthday parties and picnics, mostly a Ninja Turtle-gives you a gauge of when that was) halloween lost it's flare. But as I said, I was never that good at it anyway.

I once went as Paul fucking Bunyun. Which meant: I wore plaid.


But I made it up the next year by walking around, randomly setting my hands on fire.

I have never "celebrated" Halloween...something to do with it being American bullshit... :p

I have never "celebrated" Halloween...something to do with it being American bullshit... :p
Never dressed up as something lame for another occasion?

I have never "celebrated" Halloween...something to do with it being American bullshit... :p

having fun, dressing up, and eating candy? is it really that big of a deal?

Halloween used to be an innocent lil festival until the Americans butchered it and made it a night of fear and torment :) (Which is actually pretty good anyway)

Halloween used to be an innocent lil festival until the Americans butchered it and made it a night of fear and torment :) (Which is actually pretty good anyway)

So can't one simply celebrate Halloween as a festival?



Sorry, I know I'm getting off-topic. Last post by me on the subject!

Well, as someone already mentioned... Australia = no proper Halloween.

*BUT*

My school held some sort of bastardised Italian... festival...... thing, which everyone had to dress up for.

Being the cynical pain in the arse I was/am, I wasn't very impressed with the idea, and refused point blank to even think about a costume until the morning of the actual event.

I ended up going in a generic 'fancy dress ball' outfit (a dress with a mask-onna-stick). With a slight twist. The dress was huge and blue and... puffy. Not as in, puffy sleeves, or puffy waist. Puffy as in 'able to support itself on its own frilly under-skirts'. And did I mention it was bright blue? And shiny? And crinkled? And that I got called up in assembly for some reason (along with other people) and got asked what I was, and had no actual pre-prepared answer? I seem to vaguely recall saying "A girl in a damn stupid dress... with a mask". That got some laughs... still not sure whether they were directed at *me*, or my half-arsed joke.

After the official assembly I took the stupid thing off. Thank god I had the foresight to wear clothing underneath.

Still, I wasn't the worst off - there was another girl in my class who'd aimed to be a witch, but who ended up looking more like a goth scarecrow.

Still, I wasn't the worst off - there was another girl in my class who'd aimed to be a witch, but who ended up looking more like a goth scarecrow.
What's the difference?

I have never "celebrated" Halloween...something to do with it being American bullshit... :p
Umm, Halloween's not an American festival, any more than Christmas and Easter are. It's an old pagan festival (like Christmas and Easter, only less hidden under Christian storytelling).

hmmm...i guess the pink power rangers costume i wore when i was 5


Or maybe when i wasn't prepared for halloween at all and i dressed up as a doll. which basically meant I wore a long dress, lots of make-up, and a fur coat.(how i thought that equaled a doll, i'll never know -_-``) anyway, for some reason everbody thought I was supposed to be a hooker.

Umm, Halloween's not an American festival, any more than Christmas and Easter are. It's an old pagan festival (like Christmas and Easter, only less hidden under Christian storytelling).

:rolleyes: Did you notice the " :p " at the end of my post?

What's the difference?

Well...

Um....

Hmm...

= W.U.H (random observation brought to you by my insanity)

I don't know. She was incredibly annoyed that people kept saying "Oh, so you're a scarecrow" though. And I got to be the first to say it :D.

http://www.spotlitemagic.com/spotlitemagic/images/itemslarge/SB051.jpg

this is my favourite LAME costume, for my school halloween ball im going as a kinky cat lol

you guys got it all wrong. halloween is not the day you look forward too. its the nighgt before halloween. mischief night where you wreck havoc of all sorts. and then with whatever paintballs you have left you use on halloween and shoot little kids candy bags to the pop open and lose all the candy :sniper:

Ooh, ooh! I was a tree once! Lovely giant tube of corrigated cardboard with branches I was. Only, I didn't fit well through door-frames...

Halloween 2001 was a great year for costumes. A friend and I who often use improper cutlery (in terms of function, not illegal or immoral) went to a not particularly fancy dress halloween party as a fork and knife. Lots of tin foil and fake blood but all in all pretty lame.

i one time dress as large plate of meat for halloween but i smell very bad

i one time dress as large plate of meat for halloween but i smell very bad
you still smell bad? ... must have been one hell of a costume :p

i use a lot of meat that is very old and it have a very awful smell

i use a lot of meat that is very old and it have a very awful smell
that's disgusting. sorry to tell you. but it is. :D

it is bad idea i know but i have no other idea for costume

I have never "celebrated" Halloween...something to do with it being American bullshit... :p

Halloween is the ancient Christian festival of All Hallows' Eve, piggybacking on the even more ancient generic festival of the autumn equinox now commonly known in English speaking countries by its Irish Celtic name "Samhain". It may well be bullshit but it isn't American.

Oh my halloween costume?

I cut a pumpkin shaped piece of cardboard, painted it orange and used it as a mask, then i got some orange fabric and cut it into a rectangle with wholes for my arms. I painted "The Great Pumpkin" on the back and wore it like a waistcoat (with no shoulders as it was tube shaped).

Almost nobody knew who the great pumpkin is, and anyway they couldn't read it because it was painted in yellow. I entirely sucked.

my very first halloween costume (age 3) was of the pink CareBear...the one with the rainbow on its stomach. there was even a little red heart sewn onto the ass of the costume, just like those bears have. pictures of this monstrosity recently surfaced *shudder* and o the shame of it all.

best costume i ever saw was when my friend Dan showed up to our halloween party several years back wearing nothing but a pair of jeans. when asked what he was supposed to be, he said, "i'm a premature ejaculation...i just came in my pants."

"i'm a premature ejaculation...i just came in my pants."

I copyright this costume in the UK.

I copyright this costume in the UK.
lol, i would object, but i am a girl and therefore could never make it work anyways. :)

Halloween is the ancient Christian festival of All Hallows' Eve, piggybacking on the even more ancient generic festival of the autumn equinox now commonly known in English speaking countries by its Irish Celtic name "Samhain". It may well be bullshit but it isn't American.

Refer to post #18

I'm not particularly creative. Therefore the most embarrasing costume I ever wore was one time I tried to convince people i was a scarecrow by wearing a big white shirt and boots! Even though the time I wore Inter Milan football shorts and an AC Milan football shirt, brought in a football and tried to claim I was a football player runs a close second. It was just an excuse to play football all day.

I might set up camp on my roof with my precious sniper rifle and target the little kids, that will be a huge might halloween surprise, and dont worry premature ejaculations are CUTE .... :confused:

Hopefully, most of you are too young to know about this so it will spare me some shame. Worst costume ever:
Olivia Newton-John's character from that movie Xanadu. Yes, including the roller skates. Hey, it was 1980.
If you think that's bad then never mind that I have the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack on LP.
:eek:

This year I'm doing TWO things.

First, I'm going as Squall from FF8. It's for the Make Kyle's Hot Friend Go as a Catgirl Foundation, so don't bitch :p.



Lastly, I'm going for the more cultured method of celebrating Samhein. Yeah, I'm gonna light fucking HUGE bonfires wearing...er...not much.

Which reminds me: anyone know where, in southern California, I could pick up some woad? :D

This year I'm doing TWO things.

First, I'm going as Squall from FF8. It's for the Make Kyle's Hot Friend Go as a Catgirl Foundation, so don't bitch :p.



Lastly, I'm going for the more cultured method of celebrating Samhein. Yeah, I'm gonna light fucking HUGE bonfires wearing...er...not much.

Which reminds me: anyone know where, in southern California, I could pick up some woad? :D
It's Samhain. What do you need woad for?
Careful what you wish for. I'm a firm believer that one should not meddle with things they don't understand.
Anyway, I would say mail order. Express delivery. Google it.

Hopefully, most of you are too young to know about this so it will spare me some shame. Worst costume ever:
Olivia Newton-John's character from that movie Xanadu. Yes, including the roller skates. Hey, it was 1980.

:eek:

If you think that's bad then never mind that I have the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack on LP.
:eek:


:eek: :eek: :eek:

Saw it in the theatre. That was a good summer...

What's really sad is that when that played on the cable here about 6 months ago, I watched it - twice. Nostalgia is evil.

lol, i would object, but i am a girl and therefore could never make it work anyways. :)

I never realised you were a girl Bottle... OOPS!
But that would make the costume more "entertaining"... ;)

My worst costume. . . . . . . Let me think. Probably the time I went as a Legoman! I could hardly fit in the car and it was just a cardboard box with my dad's yellow t-shirt over it! :headbang: Now that I look back it seems really wierd. :(

My worst costume, hands down, was when I was four or five years old. We didn't have anything, so my parents borrowed a costume from neighbors. It was a yellow Easter bunny rabbit. With little balls for ears. Not only was it emotionally scarring for a five-year-old boy to wear, it looked absolutely nothing like a bunny in the first place. I still remember crying.

But to counter that, my first Halloween costume was when I was two years old. A toga, as an homage to Animal House.

TOGA! TOGA! TOGA! TOGA!

Anyway, my CURRENT costume for this year (for a costume party) is this wonderful fellow, right here: http://www.arnadal.no/film/images/evildea2.jpg

Hail to the king, baby.

Best costume I've ever seen was a 5 year old kid dressed as BA Baracus. With gold and hair and EVERYTHING :eek:

He was white though

imagine the crappiest spiderman costume ever, yeah that was me when i was a kid

my lamest halloween costume was an undercover polic agent...

I have never "celebrated" Halloween...something to do with it being American bullshit... :p

i love assholes like you. youre probably scary looking enough without having to dress up in a costume. i get sick of seeing people raggin on the US. i guess everyone else's countries are perfect.

Mine would have to be just wearing a cape type thing, i still have no idea what i was trying to be, but all i know is i was.



my lamest halloween costume was an undercover polic agent...

I assume you mean police agent ??

my very first halloween costume (age 3) was of the pink CareBear...the one with the rainbow on its stomach. there was even a little red heart sewn onto the ass of the costume, just like those bears have. pictures of this monstrosity recently surfaced *shudder* and o the shame of it all.

best costume i ever saw was when my friend Dan showed up to our halloween party several years back wearing nothing but a pair of jeans. when asked what he was supposed to be, he said, "i'm a premature ejaculation...i just came in my pants."

lmao.....thats great

i dunno if it is the lamest, but it was the ugliest. me and a friend of mine once went to a company party dressed as each other. Meaning I dressed up like a black guy and he dressed up like a white woman. Being I live in the South(USA) , some people were less than thrilled at our creativity. oh well...

My Stevie Nicks costume a couple of years in a row. The problem: I only had a shawl, and a knitted kiddie shawl at that.

Note to self: Must find long, black Goth-like dress, long, flowing blonde wig, six inch platform heels, and stuff to make it look I've got boob implants. Oh, and a real shawl and a half moon tambourine wouldn't hurt either.

What do you mean undercover police agent is bad? thats what im doing this year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Ive reached the delightful age of 13 where i dont really care about anything except candy, food, defacation and sleep)

What do you mean undercover police agent is bad? thats what im doing this year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Ive reached the delightful age of 13 where i dont really care about anything except candy, food, defacation and sleep)


Ahh to be young again

my worst one isn't really stupid but it got me in trouble. My dad and mom made me a KKK outfit when i was 5 and told me when i see a black person shout KKK ALL THE WAY!!! and they would be happy. Sort of a hollaween prank to get their laughs.

my worst one isn't really stupid but it got me in trouble. My dad and mom made me a KKK outfit when i was 5 and told me when i see a black person shout KKK ALL THE WAY!!! and they would be happy. Sort of a hollaween prank to get their laughs.
:eek:

Jeez... Parents today

Serious though: I would sue

my worst one isn't really stupid but it got me in trouble. My dad and mom made me a KKK outfit when i was 5 and told me when i see a black person shout KKK ALL THE WAY!!! and they would be happy. Sort of a hollaween prank to get their laughs.


thats awful

Dilbert. Everyone thought that I was a mad scientist. The sad part is, I used the same costume again two years later. I hate holloween.

We once had a "Pulp Fiction"-themed Halloween party. So basically every guy dressed up as either Jules or Vincent. Now those were lame costumes.

I really ruled that day.

I dressed up as Zed´s Gimp :)

I have a sixth form halloween partay next week, I will take some pics and send em in lol

My friend once put a Cartoony Shark on his head and called it a costume

I went as God.

I dressed as usual, but I wore a name tag that said, GOD

I got the idea from a tv show.

My mom don't let me celebrate halloween, saying it's "demonic and evil". Bah.

So that's my worse costume, no costume. So don't bitch about your costume because at least you can wear one...

Anyway, I'd go as a pimp one day...

My mom don't let me celebrate halloween, saying it's "demonic and evil". Bah.

So that's my worse costume, no costume. So don't bitch about your costume because at least you can wear one...

Anyway, I'd go as a pimp one day...
Christians.

My Ninja-Pirate. It was horrible.

Christians.

Yep. I'm a Catholic, my dad'd let me, but my mom is the whip of the house so... eeh.

My mom made me a sparkletts water bottle when i was little. She used to get water from the delivery guy, so she took one of those huge bottles, cut holes out of the bottom and sides for my arms. She cut off the top and made a little hat for me out of that. I got teased so much.. lol

Mine would have to be...a bedsheet. Unfortunatly that's the only halloween costume I've ever worn. Halloween isn't really celebrated that much in Australia. Why do the American's get all the fun... :mad:

Just throw a costume party. Doesn't need to be on October 31st, either. ;)

Yep. I'm a Catholic, my dad'd let me, but my mom is the whip of the house so... eeh.
Oh God, I'm so, so sorry.
No candy?

hmmm, the Time I went as a farmer getting eatan alive by a swarm of bugs was a dissappointment cause nobody got it... but not the worst. (It was actually pretty cool, people just didn't understand)

the time I was a ninja was cool

so that leaves the time I went as Fred Flintstone... Worst Costume Ever. Nobody got it, and I didn't look like him.

Christians.Not exactly. I'm catholic. We do celebrate the two days after Halloween though; All Saint's Day and All Souls Day. Halloween is not intrinsically evil, nor is going out and 'trick-or-treat'ing necessarily bad (or even forbidden)...

A friend of mine was gullible once for halloween. He went dressed as himself, but just acted really gullible the whole party.

This was never one of my costumes, but have you seen the Tron guy on Jimmy Kimmel's show? Freakin' hysterical!!

I rather liked when I used Trudeau's Mr. Butts, the cigarette lobyist as a costume which was fairly simple. But that was a different era, and someone would probably set the police on me if I handed out candy cigaretttes (does such an item still exist?) to the little kiddies in my Mr. Butts costume, unless they attacked me first. Really simple costume though, white shirt, white cardboard posterboard rolled into a cylinder with armholes cut out, and occaional smoke coming out the top.

my friend was stuck for an idea, so i said GO AS A RAISIN!

its pretty easy, wear a bin bag and tights on your arms and legs, I mean come on raisins are pretty scary.....arent they? :(

http://www.funfolly.com/g/cc/jrai2cvd.gif

Hopefully, most of you are too young to know about this so it will spare me some shame. Worst costume ever:
Olivia Newton-John's character from that movie Xanadu. Yes, including the roller skates. Hey, it was 1980.
If you think that's bad then never mind that I have the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack on LP.
:eek:
I would point and laugh, except for my bizarre obsession with the film Gymkata (http://imdb.com/title/tt0089243/), but it's really hard not to......Gene Kelly in a rollerskating....no, no-I watch Megaforce (http://imdb.com/title/tt0084316/) at every opportunity...no room to talk.....

My Ninja-Pirate. It was horrible.
DUDE-They're natural enemies!!!

my friend was stuck for an idea, so i said GO AS A RAISIN!

its pretty easy, wear a bin bag and tights on your arms and legs, I mean come on raisins are pretty scary.....arent they? :(

http://www.funfolly.com/g/cc/jrai2cvd.gif

and like OMG, Ninjas are just the best, did you ever watch KIM POSSIBLE, she had to fight a load of Ninja Monkeys, WUCK-CHAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i love assholes like you. youre probably scary looking enough without having to dress up in a costume. i get sick of seeing people raggin on the US. i guess everyone else's countries are perfect.

Its people like you who give your country a bad name. Notice the " :p "? It means it was a joke. :rolleyes: I'll leave you to your arsehole fetish now...

Its people like you who give your country a bad name. Notice the " :p "? It means it was a joke. :rolleyes: I'll leave you to your arsehole fetish now...


UMM YOU TALKING TO ME PUNK? :sniper:

my worst one isn't really stupid but it got me in trouble. My dad and mom made me a KKK outfit when i was 5 and told me when i see a black person shout KKK ALL THE WAY!!! and they would be happy. Sort of a hollaween prank to get their laughs.

prank? I'd have shot you first, then your parents. Then see who's laughing.

Yep. I'm a Catholic, my dad'd let me, but my mom is the whip of the house so... eeh.

Halloween is a long catholic tradition of All Hallows' Eve. I bet the pope did it when he was a kid.

I think I once went In a really cool Grim Reaper outfit... and somone spilled cheese fondue down my cloak... I looked like I had just vomited. I went home in disgust. It didn't help that somone had put Cider in the Fondue... I smelt like a drunk. :(

But It was a cool costume...

I copyright this costume in the UK.

lol, i would object, but i am a girl and therefore could never make it work anyways. :)

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I'm gutted you're a girl Bottle. Thinking of my sons, I was really amused by the idea of a 5 year old boy in a pink care bear suit.

Halloween is a long catholic tradition of All Hallows' Eve. I bet the pope did it when he was a kid.

Yes, but the fact is that nowadays, Halloween like everything else, has been comercialised by corporations... It's all about money.

UMM YOU TALKING TO ME PUNK? :sniper:

No

In the spirit of the upcoming (and my personal favorite) Halloween holiday, share a childhood memory and post your lamest/weirdest/dumbest Halloween costume you've ever made or worn.

I'll start - it's a tie between my bunny witch (a white bunny costume with a black cape and Witch's hat) and my dryad (green, green, and more green).

Nothing. Or next to nothing.

I was trying to surprise my girlfriend (when she was over here for 6 months) so I went across town wearing just a pair of boxers, a large trenchcoat that went all the way down to the floor and that I wrapped round me tight, a pair of trainers and a vampire mask. When I got there I stood in the hallway outside her flat and removed the trenchcoat. I ring the doorbell, wearing nothing but a vampire mask, some trainers and my boxer shorts and who answers the door? Only her 3 year old niece, who turned up to surprise her for halloween, dressed in a little fairy costume.

I've never lived that one down.

Yes, but the fact is that nowadays, Halloween like everything else, has been comercialised by corporations... It's all about money.

Only corporation that gets my money on halloween is the pumpkin selling dude. But then, I'm british.

Last halloween, I was in france, and imagine my surprise to find it is a major holiday. Well it is a holiday because being a catholic country they have all hallows day off, so the night before they can all get hammered, but there were pumpkins and bats and crap all over people's houses just like you see in america but not really in britain.

And continuing the lame theme - pumpkins have only recently become a regular vegetable in britain, and even now we can only buy them around halloween. When I was a kid we used to make lantern monsters out of swedes.

hmmm I am gonna dress up as a raisin get a binbag and make it all wrinkled wearing tights on my legs and arms and wearing a ballaclava, I mighr fill out the big bag with a couple of cushions

OR it could be MUAHAHAHAHAHA THE BINBAG TRAMPY MONSTER argh!!!!!

This has to rate as the best costume ever:
http://gothmog.homeip.net:8000/funnypics/tf-costume.jpg

Not mine of course. I don't have the imagination or talent.
If your stuck for an idea for a costume party, go wearing only your boxers. If anyone asks, tell you're a premature ejaculation - you came in your pants.
Failing that, sneeze on yourself and go as an oyster.

This has to rate as the best costume ever:
http://gothmog.homeip.net:8000/funnypics/tf-costume.jpg

Not mine of course. I don't have the imagination or talent.
If your stuck for an idea for a costume party, go wearing only your boxers. If anyone asks, tell you're a premature ejaculation - you came in your pants.
Failing that, sneeze on yourself and go as an oyster.

Read my post above. I tried the boxer one already.

o_O on a suggestion from a friend, I borrowed one of her head scarves and went as a Muslim. It wasn't lame, just VERY weird. It's got to be the strangest costume I've ever warn. Then again, I have also worn a man's kimono. I dressed as Kenshin for an anime con, and walked down the downtown streets of Toronto dressed like that...

Read my post above. I tried the boxer one already.
Except you were also in a trenchcoat,a pair of trainers and a vampire mask. So my suggestion of a premature ejaculation is a bit different.

what do y'all think of my raisin idea? I think its different and I can be a tramp or a bin bag monster lol

Except you were also in a trenchcoat,a pair of trainers and a vampire mask. So my suggestion of a premature ejaculation is a bit different.

Nice point.

you guys got it all wrong. halloween is not the day you look forward too. its the nighgt before halloween. mischief night where you wreck havoc of all sorts. and then with whatever paintballs you have left you use on halloween and shoot little kids candy bags to the pop open and lose all the candy :sniper:

Man, you need to be seriously, litup or bunkered. Ruin paintball for all of us. You must be one of the campers, that can only shoot targets that can't shoot back. Who prolong games with talk and never actually play. If I saw you shooting kids I think I would smash your car with my jeep, or if you are on the block I will waste my whole hopper on you with my jackal RDL or 2k2 angel.

I'm not sure how embarrased HE was, but last year at my High School a kid decided to come as a giant penis. It was pretty fun hearing the message going out over the PA system calling on "the runaway penis to turn himself in." Guess the security people in their golfcarts couldn't catch the runaway gonad.

And then there was the kid who dressed up in a Turban and ran around with a big bag o' flour, throwing it at people...

:(