Costume

[Bdoomed]

any good, REEEEEELY simple, haloween costumes?  im a poor college student with no car to go get something, a limited wardrobe, very limited resources, and cant get a red leather jacket for Fight Club, nor do i have a button up shirt and tie for edward norton

[Windup]

any good, REEEEEELY simple, haloween costumes?  im a poor college student with no car to go get something, a limited wardrobe, very limited resources, and cant get a red leather jacket for Fight Club, nor do i have a button up shirt and tie for edward norton

But I bet you can lay hands on a plain white sheet for an emergency toga.  And this will tell you what to do with it: WikiHow - How to Make a Toga out of a Bedsheet


Extra points for a fake laurel crown, "Hi, my name is" in Latin or Greek on your name tag, and knowing any three sentences from a famous Roman speech.

[Zathras]

Pennies, lots and lots of pennies.  And glue.  And an old shirt.  Add them all together, then you can be "Change you can believe in"

The good news is that you can cash in the pennies afterwards.

[Zathras]

Extra points for a fake laurel crown, "Hi, my name is" in Latin or Greek on your name tag, and knowing any three sentences from a famous Roman speech.

More bonus points for:

Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?

[Talia]

I am considering going for "invisibul halloween costum" on a sign hung around my neck.

[deflective]

that only counts if you wear nothing but the sign.


facial hair can be a great basis for a cheap costume. we're doing a murder mystery for halloween and my character, Sly Sleaze, will have a pencil thin mustache and three days growth.

just grow out and then shape on the day. what costumes work will depend on you.

[Bdoomed]

yea thats another problem, it don grow fast enough yet

penny idea is funny

[wintermute]

Nudist.

Cheapest costume available.

[Zathras]

You could go as an undecided voter and let the hotties try to sway you to their side   

[Bdoomed]

maybe i'll go as a fire and brimstone preacher... i cant think of anything more terrifying

[Bdoomed]

or sarah palin as president

[Bdoomed]

or bush as a 3rd term president


hmm...
theres a few good story ideas for pseudopod...

[Bdoomed]

Failing that, a hat made of simple rabbit ears and some sort of fake pancake. :p

that's brilliant

[Russell Nash]

Failing that, a hat made of simple rabbit ears and some sort of fake pancake. :p

that's brilliant

It could be that it's early and I haven't had my coffee, but I don't get it.

[deflective]

if that was a troll, well played.
you earned a response.

[wintermute]

No costume this yeah, but (if I remember), next year I'm going to get a Superman outfit, put a suit over the top of it, wear glasses instead of contacts, et voilà - Clark Kent!

[wherethewild]

No costume this yeah, but (if I remember), next year I'm going to get a Superman outfit, put a suit over the top of it, wear glasses instead of contacts, et voilà - Clark Kent!

Like this?

the flapping tie is the cherry on top of this little superhero sundae.


Hmmmm. Did that sound inappropriate? i shouldn't spend time in the QC archives before posting.

[wintermute]

That is significantly better than what I had in mind. I was going to be "mild-mannered reporter" Clark Kent rather than "hiding in a phone booth" Clark Kent.

[Zathras]

Went to parent teacher conference this morning.  My wife had her Raggedy Ann costume on.  Our daughter's kindergarten teacher told us we had great costumes.  My response?  "I'm not wearing a costume."  The look on the teacher's face was priceless!

[bluerequiem]

I think I hit on the perfect costume, one that doesn't involve me to go anywhere with it on.

[Zathras]

I actually did a $2.13 zobmie costume tonight.  Will post pictures sometime.  I bought a tube of grey cream makeup and a tube of fake blood.  Now, I already had cat's eye contacts and a mohawk, but those are just details.  I put some holes in an old white shirt and added blood to that and a pair of jeans.  Oh, and I had a prop meat cleaver from previous Holloweens.