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What costume, if any, are you wearing for Halloween this year?

Oct 3, 2012 3:50 PM

Here at work we have a Halloween costume contest every year. Last month our City Council rushed into a deal where they will be knocking down City Hall (in February!) and building a baseball stadium in its place. A significant portion of the population, including many of us City employees, are unhappy with this decision. Quite a few people think that the baseball stadium is not a wise investment, and quite a few more think it's crazy to knock down a serviceable government building and scatter municipal services to the wind to facilitate private development. I should get a lot of laughs out of my Halloween costume. I am planning to dress as the City Hall building and carry around a baseball/wrecking ball. I won a prize some years ago as "the ghost of City Hall", dressed as a ghost chained to a rolling office chair. What are you planning to wear?

moondrake moondrake

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Going as a forum mod. That's right, I'm scary all year.

inkycatz inkycatz
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@inkycatz: But you could be a forum mod with wings... Or at least just quit hiding them for a day, even if they do look like bat wings.

capguncowboy capguncowboy
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A truly inspired costume thought, right here.

inkycatz inkycatz
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Not sure I'm dressing up at all this year. Not going to any Halloween parties or anything, so not very inspired to do anything. When I answer the door to hand out candy I guess I'll be "telecommute guy" in my t-shirt and shorts.

kmeltzer kmeltzer
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@kmeltzer: You should shake it up and wear a suit.

inkycatz inkycatz
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@inkycatz: Ohhhh.. not a bad idea!

kmeltzer kmeltzer
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far as i'm concerned, this guy has the right idea:

pemberducky pemberducky
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@pemberducky: His box would be perfect for my costume. It's exactly the right shape.

moondrake moondrake
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I'm passing on the costume thing this year...but I might change my mind....

jsimsace jsimsace
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Thinking about using my just been shipped so hoping it arrives in time SCIENCE: Consider Yourself Warned! t-shirt as a base for a mad scientist outfit, mostly so I can get an extra discount at my comic book store (and because I've always wanted an excuse to buy some cool mad scientist type goggles, if I can find some*)

*Suggestions welcome.

Also, adorable kitten w/ costume @inkycatz.

lonelypond lonelypond
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Conspiracy Theorist: Hat of tin foil over a colander, a tshirt that proclaims "Humpty Dumpty Was Pushed!", three or four copies of Catcher In The Rye, and a copy of Weekly World News. (Any suggestions for additional elements for the physical costume itself are more than welcome.)

Then I spend the evening talking about chem trails, the faked moon landing, Obama having to fake his birth certificate due to being born on another planet (he faked the newspaper articles at the time by use of alien time-travel tech), cattle mutilations, reptilian blood in England's ruling dynasty, the fact that 9/11 was engineered by a race of super intelligent narwhals being kept at Area 51, the even smarter unicorns being kept at the even-more-secret Area 52, and any other nonsense I can dream up.

mrgrogg mrgrogg
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@lonelypond: Steampunk is in this year, which means there are goggles everywhere. Your local costume/party shop should have a good selection. Or there are an abundance on EBay, just make sure they are shipping from the US so they will get here in time for Halloween. Email the vendor to confirm prior to bidding.

moondrake moondrake
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@mrgrogg: You could retask and old Walkman or something like it to be a bug sweeper. You could hide little plastic bugs around the office when no one is looking and then successfully "detect" them with your detector.

moondrake moondrake
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@moondrake: Great idea! Thanks!

mrgrogg mrgrogg
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In my wootizen boc I got this lovely disposable overalls. I'm thinking that, with some whacky logo and one of the cool pairs of goggles that was also in there. And...I can make some crazy hat, and get some of those finger lights. Yup. Costume done. What am I? Crazed or alien worker at some factory somewhere, I dunno! Weird. Weird is what I do best!~

baybei baybei
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@moondrake: thanks!

lonelypond lonelypond

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