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Title: Costume
Post by: Bdoomed on October 27, 2008, 04:09:55 AM
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
:P
Title: Re: Costume
Post by: Windup on October 27, 2008, 04:21:36 AM

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
:P


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
 (http://www.wikihow.com/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.

Title: Re: Costume
Post by: Zathras on October 27, 2008, 06:20:25 AM
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.
Title: Re: Costume
Post by: Zathras on October 27, 2008, 06:24:06 AM
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?
Title: Re: Costume
Post by: Talia on October 27, 2008, 08:13:11 AM
I am considering going for "invisibul halloween costum" on a sign hung around my neck.
Title: Re: Costume
Post by: deflective on October 27, 2008, 08:51:50 AM
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.
Title: Re: Costume
Post by: Bdoomed on October 27, 2008, 01:40:07 PM
yea thats another problem, it don grow fast enough yet :P

penny idea is funny :P
Title: Re: Costume
Post by: wintermute on October 27, 2008, 05:21:14 PM
Nudist.

Cheapest costume available.
Title: Re: Costume
Post by: Zathras on October 27, 2008, 06:28:48 PM
You could go as an undecided voter and let the hotties try to sway you to their side   ;D
Title: Re: Costume
Post by: Bdoomed on October 27, 2008, 08:39:32 PM
maybe i'll go as a fire and brimstone preacher... i cant think of anything more terrifying
Title: Re: Costume
Post by: Bdoomed on October 27, 2008, 08:39:42 PM
or sarah palin as president
Title: Re: Costume
Post by: Bdoomed on October 27, 2008, 08:39:58 PM
or bush as a 3rd term president


hmm...
theres a few good story ideas for pseudopod... :P
Title: Re: Costume
Post by: Bdoomed on October 27, 2008, 09:35:16 PM
Failing that, a hat made of simple rabbit ears and some sort of fake pancake. :p
that's brilliant
Title: Re: Costume
Post by: Russell Nash on October 31, 2008, 08:14:31 AM
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.
Title: Re: Costume
Post by: deflective on October 31, 2008, 08:55:40 AM
if that was a troll, well played.
you earned a response.

(http://www.oswald.us/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/bunny-pancake.jpg)
Title: Re: Costume
Post by: wintermute on October 31, 2008, 12:02:10 PM
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 voilĂ  - Clark Kent!
Title: Re: Costume
Post by: wherethewild on October 31, 2008, 12:52:43 PM
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 voilĂ  - Clark Kent!

Like this? (http://www.flickr.com/photos/edwardbacho/2970496805/)

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.


Title: Re: Costume
Post by: wintermute on October 31, 2008, 02:39:21 PM
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.
Title: Re: Costume
Post by: Zathras on October 31, 2008, 02:53:57 PM
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!
Title: Re: Costume
Post by: bluerequiem on October 31, 2008, 06:58:18 PM
I think I hit on the perfect costume, one that doesn't involve me to go anywhere with it on.

(http://www.jimmyjacobson.com/web_images/halloween.jpg) (http://www.jimmyjacobson.com)

Title: Re: Costume
Post by: Zathras on November 01, 2008, 03:29:21 AM
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.