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Well hello, dear residents of NSG. In about two weeks, All Hallows Eve will be upon us, and I'm still not quite sure what costume I'll be wearing on the night.

So, I'd like to ask you for suggestions of what I should dress up as this year. If your suggestion is good, I might make a costume out of one or two, and post pics.

Also, feel free to announce what you're dressing up as this year, what if any scares and surprises you have planned, whatever.

Here's a scary costume. Get a George W. Bush mask, make up a couple of "W. '08" buttons, and get a copy of the U.S. Constitution that has the 22nd Amendment prominently burnt out, then head out! You'll need cowboy boots, but anything else is really up to you. Nothing is worse than W. trying to attempt a coup.

I have a friend who is going as Palin...I'm thinking I might go as a Girls Gone Wild girl (specifically, the girl who flashes the camera and yells "here's my boobs!")

I have a friend who is going as Palin...I'm thinking I might go as a Girls Gone Wild girl (specifically, the girl who flashes the camera and yells "here's my boobs!")

Can get invited to your party? :wink:

I plan to go see SAW V with my best friend.

I'm in a parade.. I'm dressing up as a frog that is dressed up like a vampire.

Dress up like Sara Palin with a name tag that says president and a security badge that says. "World summit meeting".
:eek:

I'm going as Raoul Duke and a friend of mine is going to be Dr. Gonzo.

Here's a scary costume. Get a George W. Bush mask, make up a couple of "W. '08" buttons, and get a copy of the U.S. Constitution that has the 22nd Amendment prominently burnt out, then head out! You'll need cowboy boots, but anything else is really up to you. Nothing is worse than W. trying to attempt a coup.

Sounds like a lot of fun, though here in Scotland, the implications of the burned out 22nd Amendment may go over folks heads. Perhaps I can improve the costume further, by recruiting some Bushist stormtroopers, and applying some black marker to the upper-lip.

Dress up like Sara Palin with a name tag that says president and a security badge that says. "World summit meeting".
:eek:

Also interesting, but again, no-one in Scotland would get it, unfortunately. Would certainly be very scary over the pond though. :eek:


Keep the suggestions coming! I welcome outlandish, traditional and unusual ideas. Maybe I'll create some kind of prize for a winning suggestion, at a later date. ;)

I'm going as a music pirate or a hot tub. I was supposed to go as a hot tub last year but I forgot that halloween and the halloween party at the bar I was going to did not coincide on the same night so my costume was still a rather ordinary mini-fridge box.

I'm thinking I might go as a Girls Gone Wild girl (specifically, the girl who flashes the camera and yells "here's my boobs!")

better...golden girls gone wild

I'm reprising my role from last Halloween as Greg House, MD.

Also, feel free to announce what you're dressing up as this year,

After having discovered my supposed resemblance to Leon Trotsky, some friends and acquaintances have started a campaign to get me to dress up as him.

I'm ideologically opposed to this suggestion.

I'm going as a Star Wars clone trooper this year. DC-15 and all.
I'll be happy to wear a "body bucket" for a day. :D

After having discovered my supposed resemblance to Leon Trotsky, some friends and acquaintances have started a campaign to get me to dress up as him.

I'm ideologically opposed to this suggestion.

Ideology has no place in the celebration of Halloween. :tongue:

After having discovered my supposed resemblance to Leon Trotsky, some friends and acquaintances have started a campaign to get me to dress up as him.

I'm ideologically opposed to this suggestion.

well, obviously the costume requires the ice axe

Oohh, here's a scary one seeing the markets are up and down. Go pick up a sonotube (http://www.concreteacc.com/sonotube.asp) and go as a roll of your favourite currency. Scary....

Sounds like a lot of fun, though here in Scotland, the implications of the burned out 22nd Amendment may go over folks heads. Perhaps I can improve the costume further, by recruiting some Bushist stormtroopers, and applying some black marker to the upper-lip.



Also interesting, but again, no-one in Scotland would get it, unfortunately. Would certainly be very scary over the pond though. :eek:


Keep the suggestions coming! I welcome outlandish, traditional and unusual ideas. Maybe I'll create some kind of prize for a winning suggestion, at a later date. ;)

Right. Forgot to look at your location. Let's see, you're Scottish...

Undead Edward Longshanks! That was a jackass of a guy that could work. :)

Alternatively, Undead Oliver Cromwell! Another jackass! And since he's already lost his head, he can't be put down if he rises from the dead! :eek: Run, mom! Run! :eek:

I'd suggest being me, but I'm gonna be me (my friend agreed to be the armless Black Knight), and that would be stealing.

Alternatively, choose your locally hated politician. Stylize it a wee bit, and you'll be fine.

Ideology has no place in the celebration of Halloween. :tongue:

I don't have a place in the celebration of Halloween, either. Never went trick-or-treating, never gone to a party.

So Ideology and I will have a peaceful night to ourselves.

I plan to dress up as a police officer and "arrest" delinquents and "confiscate" their candy. Maybe get a few friends together too XD.

better...golden girls gone wild
...


I knew I liked you for a reason.
Can get invited to your party? :wink:
deal. Mind you, I make a hideous female (something about refusing to shave my goatee)

better...golden girls gone wild

:::shudder:::

That's almost as bad as my annual threat to go as a belly dancer...

well, obviously the costume requires the ice axe

Indeed. Zombie Trotsky FTW!

I plan to dress up as a police officer and "arrest" delinquents and "confiscate" their candy. Maybe get a few friends together too XD.

That's the MO of one of the parade characters uses in the sweet little promotional event for this shopping mall over in Kobe I do every year. The "good" characters in the parade - like my Pumpkin King character - hand out candy to the kiddies, the scary characters scare the kiddies, and the pirate steals their candy. :)

This year I'm going as a ring wraith, a zombie doctor, a zombie, and an evil undead monk.

I'm, also teaching 1st through 3rd graders so this should be FUN! *Insert much evil laughter here*

I'm putting on makeup that looks like horrendous radiation sickness and pretending I'm from 2 years in the future :)

maybe a sexually molested panda

I'm going as Raoul Duke and a friend of mine is going to be Dr. Gonzo.

your supposed to go as something different to who you are 364 days a year

I'll be going as a member of Homeworld Security. Got a few friends to help me, some realistic-looking water pistols, and a bunch of cars. I wanna see how many we can stuff into a vehicle before someone notices the organization name XD

After having discovered my supposed resemblance to Leon Trotsky, some friends and acquaintances have started a campaign to get me to dress up as him.

I'm ideologically opposed to this suggestion.

Just be wary of any vodka-drinking bearded men with names ending in -ovsky who announce that they "have a bone to pick with you"

I'm idly considering a pirate.

I'm idly considering a pirate.

Ninjas are way cooler than pirates.

Zombie Trotsky FTW!

communism's greatest undead would be an awesome group costume

communism's greatest undead would be an awesome group costume

Yeah, but we're going to have Raoul Duke, Dr. Gonzo, and Ian Malcolm, the Spy from Team Fortress 2 and GLaDOS.

I'm planning a "Stalin's inner circle" for next year, with me as Lavrentii Beria, but that's still in the planning stages. I just need to find a historically accurate pair of pince-nez glasses and I'm set.

I'm putting on makeup that looks like horrendous radiation sickness and pretending I'm from 2 years in the future :)

Get a fiber optic tube and call yourself John (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Titor)... ;)

communism's greatest undead would be an awesome group costume

Aaaiiii! Yes - Lenin, Mao, and Uncle ho!

Here's a scary costume. Get a George W. Bush mask, make up a couple of "W. '08" buttons, and get a copy of the U.S. Constitution that has the 22nd Amendment prominently burnt out, then head out! You'll need cowboy boots, but anything else is really up to you. Nothing is worse than W. trying to attempt a coup.
:fluffle:

Wifey says I should be Zapp Brannigan. I may indulge.
I was gonna be an ulcer, but the fluids required for a believable costume might not work out so well on peoples' upholstery and such.
:(

maybe a sexually molested pandaOoh, ooh! This! THIS!
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y9/MAR-Peeves/applause_crowd.gif

The annual pun party is coming up, which is when I actually dress up (not for Halloween unless I'm working).......I'm going to be a "one night stand" which is basically me dressing as a night stand with a "1" on my table cloth.

here is what u gotta do. buy a burger king coustume. before the restraunt closes buy a bunch of whopper. during the night go out trickor treating. knock on the door and when they open it give them a hamburger. stand there fer a another couple second without moving then walk away.

here is what u gotta do. buy a burger king coustume. before the restraunt closes buy a bunch of whopper. during the night go out trickor treating. knock on the door and when they open it give them a hamburger. stand there fer a another couple second without moving then walk away.

That's awesome.

This is my costume:

http://www.kaboodle.com/hi/img/2/0/0/6b/f/AAAAAgqZKJ4AAAAAAGv0iA.jpg

Well hello, dear residents of NSG. In about two weeks, All Hallows Eve will be upon us, and I'm still not quite sure what costume I'll be wearing on the night.

So, I'd like to ask you for suggestions of what I should dress up as this year. If your suggestion is good, I might make a costume out of one or two, and post pics.

Also, feel free to announce what you're dressing up as this year, what if any scares and surprises you have planned, whatever.

I'll be dressing up as a tramp. It takes very little effort on my part.

I've never done anything for Halloween and I never will. Its a stupid American cultural import to take the thing so seriously. I'm going to set up a pressure washer by my front door, and if any kids knock and say "trick or treat", I'll smile and say "trick" before hitting them with a torrent of water. Yes, I hate freedom.

Go as a RickRoll. Dress yourself up to look like Rick Astley in 'Never Gonna Give You Up' and take along a small music player with the song and when people open their doors, hit play and start dancing.

Just make sure you wear a cup. :)

I'm going as Zombie Stalin. I'll go around threatening to send my friends to the Gulag.(All in jest of course... They hope:D)

I've never done anything for Halloween and I never will. Its a stupid American cultural import to take the thing so seriously. I'm going to set up a pressure washer by my front door, and if any kids knock and say "trick or treat", I'll smile and say "trick" before hitting them with a torrent of water. Yes, I hate freedom.

Just because you never had a good halloween doesn't mean you have to spoil it for other people.

I've never done anything for Halloween and I never will. Its a stupid American cultural import to take the thing so seriously. I'm going to set up a pressure washer by my front door, and if any kids knock and say "trick or treat", I'll smile and say "trick" before hitting them with a torrent of water. Yes, I hate freedom.

I take it you're in the market for a house makeover, because that sounds like the perfect way to get your house covered in eggs and toilet roll!

I've never done anything for Halloween and I never will. Its a stupid American cultural import to take the thing so seriously. I'm going to set up a pressure washer by my front door, and if any kids knock and say "trick or treat", I'll smile and say "trick" before hitting them with a torrent of water. Yes, I hate freedom.

At least give em candy before you hose em down. :p

Just because you never had a good halloween doesn't mean you have to spoil it for other people.

Yes, yes it does.

I take it you're in the market for a house makeover, because that sounds like the perfect way to get your house covered in eggs and toilet roll!

Well, I've got a pressure washer, so that'll be cleaned pretty quick :p

At least give em candy before you hose em down. :p

Anyone know somewhere I can buy arsenic candy?

This is my costume:

http://www.kaboodle.com/hi/img/2/0/0/6b/f/AAAAAgqZKJ4AAAAAAGv0iA.jpg

:hail::hail::hail:

I'll probably dress up like a Roman centurion again... Yes, I do own replica armor... I'm a military historian, we do silly things like that.

Either that, or I'll dress as a Knight Templar and run around my apartment complex yelling, "GOD WILLS IT!"

The Roman centurion is more realistic because I have a full set of Imperial era Roman centurioin armor (Lorica Segmentata (armor), a gladius, helmet, cape, etc) but I only really have a chainmail shirt for the Knight Templar costume.

This is my costume:

http://www.kaboodle.com/hi/img/2/0/0/6b/f/AAAAAgqZKJ4AAAAAAGv0iA.jpg

i approve. we did a group costume of alice in wonderland last year - even ran into the queen of hearts and a white rabbit at this bar we wound up at.

I've idly considered dressing as Dr. Horrible if I go to any parties. Especially if I could get a friend to do Captain Hammer.

This is my costume:

http://www.kaboodle.com/hi/img/2/0/0/6b/f/AAAAAgqZKJ4AAAAAAGv0iA.jpg

"When one pill makes you smaller..."

Its a stupid American cultural import to take the thing so seriously.

NAmerica imported it from Scotland...

Go as a RickRoll. Dress yourself up to look like Rick Astley in 'Never Gonna Give You Up' and take along a small music player with the song and when people open their doors, hit play and start dancing.

Just make sure you wear a cup. :)

LG, you are a Very Bad Man (tm)...

And we love you for it! :D:D:D

NAmerica imported it from Scotland..

I did not know that.

Still, it wasn't taken very seriously round here until recent years, certainly not when I was a kid, and I think its probably been transported back across the pond through its representations in US popular culture transported to the UK (films, TV etc).

Scotland? Makes sense I guess. Teaching the kids petty vandalism and extortion early. Might as well start training for their future criminal lifestyle as soon as possible:p

i approve. we did a group costume of alice in wonderland last year - even ran into the queen of hearts and a white rabbit at this bar we wound up at.

Awesome. That's one thing I've yet to pull off, a group theme.

Every year involves several costumes for me - different parties plus work, but always one prime work up. The last three years have all been splatter costumes, heavy on the zombie theme. (The prize winner incorporated tripe...)

I'm still thinking how to break out this year. Maybe something in a vampire or werewolf.

The last few years I've thought of a sort of Swamp Thing Costume, but just haven't put it together - lotsa work.

The other scary, scary besides the belly dancer I mentioned above, is a stripper.

Last year I pulled a punny for work - one that only a few here will get. Pig snout and ears + a box from 551 = butaman!

(The explanation: "buta" is Japanese for "pig". 551 is a Chinese chain famous for their steamed buns filled with pork. Chinese steamed buns are known as "<whatever filling>-man". Butaman = "pig man"/"steamed pork bun")

I don't see the point in Halloween. It's all a bit silly if you ask me.

The Joker of course. White make-up messed up hair, wildly mismatched shirt and pants, lipstick to use as grin. Awesome.

I'll probably be going as a witch again, or mabe I'll find some vampire teeth.

I don't see the point in Halloween. It's all a bit silly if you ask me.

A couple of ways to look at it.

1) Simple: it's a silly fun distraction

2) it's a cultural "theatrical" release akin to Canival/Mardi Gras or other cultural festivals in which normal day-to-day social pressures are lifted.

That's one thing I've yet to pull off, a group theme.

last year i saw two awesome ones in madison (other than my own, of course). one was a ship full of vikings - they had made a cardboard longboat that they rowed down the street on their way to go pillage a bar. the other was barack and michelle obama, their staff, and their secret service detail.

last year i saw two awesome ones in madison (other than my own, of course). one was a ship full of vikings - they had made a cardboard longboat that they rowed down the street on their way to go pillage a bar. the other was barack and michelle obama, their staff, and their secret service detail.

Awesome.
Some of my friends, not even for Halloween, did a zombie bar crawl. They got better at it as they went along and consumed more alcohol!
(And almost every bar, of course, played "Thriller" as soon as they entered. One even gave them free drinks.)

I don't see the point in Halloween. It's all a bit silly if you ask me.

why so serious?

Awesome.
Some of my friends, not even for Halloween, did a zombie bar crawl. They got better at it as they went along and consumed more alcohol!
(And almost every bar, of course, played "Thriller" as soon as they entered. One even gave them free drinks.)

I will have to attend or even organize a zombie shuffle/walk/bar crawl/whatever... I've yet to get anyone else up for zombies here, but it;s just plain fun...

why so serious?

Look at it as an anthropologist.

Oh wait...

You prolly have and realise the real under currents of Halloween...

Seriously for a moment, isn't Halloween a modern version of many events present in almost all cultures? Wearing masks, playing out alternative characters, social permissiveness to act up...

(And the Viking long boat sounds awesome!)

they had made a cardboard long[b]ship/b]

Long boats are rowing boats. Longships are the manliest transport machines known to man.

Seriously for a moment, isn't Halloween a modern version of many events present in almost all cultures? Wearing masks, playing out alternative characters, social permissiveness to act up...

somewhere i saw an interesting article on the subject - i'll have to see if i can dig it up again

somewhere i saw an interesting article on the subject - i'll have to see if i can dig it up again

Sweet.

Culturally permisive transgresssions FTW!

Still, it wasn't taken very seriously round here until recent years, certainly not when I was a kid, and I think its probably been transported back across the pond through its representations in US popular culture transported to the UK (films, TV etc).

Same here (Germany).

I did not know that.

Still, it wasn't taken very seriously round here until recent years, certainly not when I was a kid, and I think its probably been transported back across the pond through its representations in US popular culture transported to the UK (films, TV etc).

Scotland? Makes sense I guess. Teaching the kids petty vandalism and extortion early. Might as well start training for their future criminal lifestyle as soon as possible:p

Halloween comes from the Xian adaptation of Samhain. For a cool connect, see Robbie Burs' Poem "Hallowe'en" (http://www.djmcadam.com/halloween.htm)

Oh, and the "trick or treating" tradition in NAmerica comes directly from Scottish "guising".

Same here (Germany).

Less of a Celtic tradition in Germany, eh?

Oh, and the "trick or treating" tradition in NAmerica comes directly from Scottish "guising".

Actually, no, it doesn't. It's a coincidence.

Trick or Treating in the U.S. was actually started by Christian ministers within the nation. They did it to give Irish and Scottish youths something besides pranks to do. The whole idea of costumes and the like extends from trying to come up with a way to make it fun enough to get the kids interested.

They did it to give Irish and Scottish youths something besides pranks to do.

And Halloween helped this how?

Actually, no, it doesn't. It's a coincidence.

Trick or Treating in the U.S. was actually started by Christian ministers within the nation. They did it to give Irish and Scottish youths something besides pranks to do. The whole idea of costumes and the like extends from trying to come up with a way to make it fun enough to get the kids interested.

Evidnce?

And Halloween helped this how?

It's a "clown" sort of exemption, as with similar sorts of cultural events.