08/19/2004 Entry: "Halloween Costume Survey."

Stupid Survey: List some of the Halloween costumes you've worn, and name your best.

Chestnuts roasted by Mr. Mr. Mr. @ 08/19/2004 09:30 AM EST

Let's see....RAINBOW BRITE was a favorite...also your standard she-devil one year, and an angel the next (3 of us dressed up like hot angels and we dressed another guy like a pimp and called him "charlie" But one of the best was the year I dressed up as a tube of COLGATE Toothpaste. Won a prize for that one.

Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 08/19/2004 09:54 AM EST

One year me, my sister and a friend whent as the Fruit guys from Froot of the loom. My mom taped 30 purple baloons on my clothes and I was a the grape dude.

Chestnuts roasted by Mr Mango @ 08/19/2004 10:01 AM EST

Some of my own...

I had a bunch of Ben Cooper-ish costumes, but they’re a blur. Mostly I remember the ones worn to school on Halloween.

In kindergarten, I was Dracula, and so was every other boy in class. Except for one, who cried throughout the entire Halloween party at school. Because. He was afraid. Of Dracula. This was also my first experience with blood capsules.

In third grade – maybe second grade – I so wanted to be ALF. Like, more than anything else in the world. Unfortunately, we couldn’t find an ALF mask – just the one-piece furry bodysuit, which I still own. Instead my parents got me this brown alien mask, and I was christened ALF’s cousin. Won a collapsible cup from a Boy Scouts Halloween competition that year.

In more recent years, I’ve been a transvestite murderous Santa Claus.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 08/19/2004 10:03 AM EST

Black Lightning (Afro and All!!), I got the idea from the SNL episode where "Sinbad" is the host, he shows up to Supermans death as Black Lightning.

Chestnuts roasted by Wills @ 08/19/2004 10:05 AM EST

One year I was Huckleberry Finn and my best friend was Tom Sawyer. Another year I was a retard. I've also been Ernest Hemingway (from his Key West fishing days as opposed to the African hunting safari days.) Then I was Chuck Norris and my buddies Olaf, Rick and Timmy were the Karate Commandos. I've wrapped myself up in tinfoil and strapped a funnel to my noggin to be the tin man when my girlfriend played Dorothy. College found me and my drunken buddies as the Reservoir Dogs. I've also been a crackhead, a tiger and snake eyes from G.I. Joe. My favorite, though, was being a mime b/c it really annoyed the crap out of people.

Quite an eclectic mix, eh?

Chestnuts roasted by Pedro @ 08/19/2004 10:05 AM EST

Halloween was always my favorite time. Growing up I was everything from Spuds McKenzie to George Bush (the first one). In recent years, my best costume has got to be my bachelorette costume. I dressed up as one of those annoying female bachelorettes who before their wedding night go out with their girlfriends to bars and clubs and get real drunk and annoying. I put on a veil and I even had one of those t-shirts with lifesavers on them (that whole one suck for a buck thing they do). I walked around the nightclub and acted real annoying and drunk and even carried around one of those blow up dolls. Even though my costume sounded gay, you should have seen all the girls coming up to me and even giving me dollars to suck a lifesaver off my shirt.

I do miss, however, the whole thrill of getting free candy when I was younger. I lived in a big neighborhood and I would start trick or treating early and hit every house. I would then go home and change my costume and go around again until like 9:30. I was usually the last one out and people would usually just give me everything they had left so I would go away. Ah, those were the days.

Matt, are you still going to post a lot of Halloween stuff this year with your new job?

Chestnuts roasted by King Chachi @ 08/19/2004 10:17 AM EST

Yes, there will be a 2004 Halloween Countdown same as last year. I won't skimp on the holidays.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 08/19/2004 10:23 AM EST

Last year, I was Princess Zelda. My best friend was Link, and the rest of us were Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach, and Dr. Mario. We crashed a Game Stop and they kicked us out. Good times!

Chestnuts roasted by Paladia @ 08/19/2004 10:32 AM EST

My favorites were Luke Skywalker, Indiana Jones, Vampire, and Marvin the Martian. I spent lots of time and money on the costumes (Halloween is my favorite time of year) so the costumes come out very well. My very favorite, though is my Freddy Krueger costume. The mask was design for me by a costume design artist, the sweater and hat are replicas from the films, and the coup de grace is the working metal fingerblades glove. I studied Robert E.'s moves from the films and implimented it into my actions. I went to the mall and freaked half of the people out, especially when I would stand very still and jump out at the unsuspecting marks. The couple of haunted houses I went to were fun because almost all of them had Freddy, but they sucked compared to mine. I got some good job offers for the season!
I am currently working on a Batman suit and an Ash costume.

My biggest project is my design for Darkness from the movie Legend. I can't wait to make that one, but it will be quite expensive.

Chestnuts roasted by Stilewalker @ 08/19/2004 10:33 AM EST

This is fun

I remember being the obvious princess when i was young, with the plastic face mask and plastic dress to wear over my snowsuit (gets cold here in oct), musta ben about 5 or 6 then

When i was 12, my brother and i grabbed a bunch of boxes, i took a huge one, painted it orange with a pumpkin face and went out as a pumpkin, while my brother took 3 boxes, painted them gray and he was a robot. Unfortunately, it rained, so my costume melted and i went home early

The, when i was 18? i went out bar-hopping as Jim Carrey's THE MASK. Green face makeup, yellow hat and suit, the whole nine yards...quite awesome

I've been a witch and and old granny and i tried punky brewster one year lol.

fun times!

Chestnuts roasted by -Jen- @ 08/19/2004 10:38 AM EST

Lets see been a few good costumes over the years. Almost always a vampire since kindergarten. But for those few years that I wasn't I was an arrey of stupid things. Most of them made up. But the best non-vampire year was 4th grade.
The previous summer we were at an old run down theme park in Indiana. One of their gift shops sold whips. Seeing my healthy obsession with Indiana Jones I convinced my mom to buy it for me. A few months later we found a old fedora-esqe hat at the end of our drive way. So that halloween I dressed as Prof. Jones himself. There was a the yearly halloween parade of elementary kids through the school and surrounding neighborhood, with all the parents and folks lined up to watch. So to give a good show as a I walked I was cracking the whip, like any good archeologist would. My theacher freaked out, after a few blocks, she ran up, I almost cracked her good. She kinda yelled at me to stop it before I hurt someone. But you know what it was worth it. Indy kicks ass.

Chestnuts roasted by Indy fan @ 08/19/2004 10:55 AM EST

I was once Lucas from "The Wizard." I kinda didn't have a powerglove so i glued a regular NES controller onto a regular winter glove.

Chestnuts roasted by The Travo @ 08/19/2004 11:14 AM EST

Halloween is my most favorite holiday!
Last year i went as Jean Grey from X:Men - i liked standing in traffic and sticking out my hand and using my 'mental powers' to stop cars.
year before I was Lara Croft - thigh holsters and all...
year before that i was the 1-800-Collect Chick (eva savealot)
year before that i was Trinity from The Matrix (sensing a theme here?)
This here I'm gonna be Illyria from Angel.

ok. it's all an excuse for me to get to roam around New Orleans in a bodysuit and guns...

Chestnuts roasted by Melinda @ 08/19/2004 11:16 AM EST

I love Halloween, so I try to dress up every year (doesn't always happen).
When I was little, I was - a clown - a storm trooper - a witch - a scarecrow - a penguin - a bunny - Little Jack Horner - Ross Perot - a migrant worker - Ronald Reagan.
As an adult, I've been - a cricket player - an India Indian woman - and my favorite - Che Guevara.

Chestnuts roasted by Alison @ 08/19/2004 11:28 AM EST

Bret Hart. That was a fun year.

Followed it up with the Undertaker the following year. It was about 10 years ago when he was all dark and Halloweeny. Good times.

Chestnuts roasted by Chris @ 08/19/2004 11:29 AM EST

Just as an additional comment: I still cannot understand the old (and possibly still around) Halloween costumes where it was a cheap, plastic mask attached to an even cheaper, plastic smock with a picture of who you were supposed to be. For instance, if you were Megatron, it would be a Megatron mask and the smock would have a full-body picture of Megatron on it.

Now, what kid would think that's cool? Whose eyes lit up when they walked down that particular aisle in K-mart or wherever? I would have rather gone as a ghost, or possibly a vampire for another year in a row, than buy one of those things.

In fact, I had an idea where a person should buy a white shirt, affix a full-body picture of him/her on it (complete with his/her name in big, bold letters), and pretend that their face is the mask. See, possibly even cheaper (yet more creative) than those other masks.

How I hated them!

Chestnuts roasted by Lackadaisical @ 08/19/2004 11:29 AM EST

Matt - Exciting news for you (if you haven't already heard). Golden Girls will be on DVD in time for Thanksgiving. Including commentary by the Rivers' (Joan and Melissa) on the outfits everyone wore. Click my name for more information

Chestnuts roasted by Alison @ 08/19/2004 11:31 AM EST

OH YEAH! I was the Kool Aid Man one year and my girlfriend was a brick wall. I made the costume out of foam and I could barely fit through doors. It was awesome. This year I'm gonna be Mayor McCheese.

Chestnuts roasted by Zombie Cop @ 08/19/2004 11:45 AM EST

Aside from the old Collegeville and Ben Cooper costumes, I've always loved trying to peice together my own stuff. Past few years, I used a red/black robe, a cheap skeleton costume, and a couple of cardboard props, and take my nephews and neices Trick or Treating. Some folk will give you candy just for making the effort of dressing up along with the kids. I have a bright orange gun that uses a camera-flash type device in it, and thats good for running down dark streets firing it at random rugrats. This year, I'll buy a couple new costumes at Wal-Mart, and see what I can do with my cut-down glow-in-the-dark hockey mask (very Spawn-ish) and a voice changer box. But you know, to this day, the smell of new vinyl still reminds me of Hallowe'en. And my Birthday the next day.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 08/19/2004 11:53 AM EST

Oh, Halloween... the best holiday of them all...

When I was ten, I went as The Phantom of the Opera. It was a pretty bad-ass costume, too-- picked up the mask at a Halloween shop, borrowed my brother's balck fedora, and dug up a burgundy-lined black velvet cloak my mum made my dad in college (I come from a rather eccentric family).

Then I got older and went as Magenta from The Rocky Horror Show/Picture Show. Apparently I never outgrew the goth thing...

Chestnuts roasted by Pirate7L @ 08/19/2004 11:56 AM EST

THAT'S the bonus feature on the GG DVD? Ick.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 08/19/2004 12:04 PM EST

Ah! Halloween...My Christmas! I'm lookin at going out this year...and I'm 21! (c'mon...it's FREE candy!) Anyhow, I'll list what costumes I can remember, plus my fav. The earliest I can remember is being Snoopy (one of those plastic smocks with a picture of snoopy on it, and a plastic snoopy mask) my brother was one of the California raisins (my mom took some purple fabric, made it look like a raisin, bro had purple face..the whole 9) other costumes I can remember were Freddy Kruger (crappy New Nightmare Freddy!) I know this is gonna piss some people off, but in '99 I put on a black trenchcoat and said I was a member of The Trenchcoat Mafia (yes, I am a sick bastard!) I was a zombie one year, a year or so ago just threw on a skull mask and trenchcoat. My best costume had to have been The Joker. Was around the time first Batman movie came out. I had the vest, pants, face done up, even used that stupid hair colouring spray to make my hair green. I still got the picture in my house...that was probably my greatest costume!

BTW lookin forward to the Halloween countdown Matt!

Chestnuts roasted by Jabo @ 08/19/2004 12:05 PM EST

Couple of my favorite costumes were from pretty recently. Bout five years ago I was dating and artsy chick who was really into halloween. What she did was take some green face paint and other such stuff and she painted my face up all zombie like with puss bubbles and scars and stuff. The kicker was a fake screw we put the bolt end near my right temple at an angle and the pointy end came out my left cheek. My own brother didn't recognize me. Couple years after that I was dating another artsy chick (ended up marrying that one) and she painted me up as Darth Maul, we even bought a sweet black cloak to go with, had the horns and everything

Chestnuts roasted by OldSchooler @ 08/19/2004 12:12 PM EST

Well. Halloween is my favorite holiday. That being said, my costumes didn't start out that awesome. My first one, when I was like 2, was as a clown. But, since I live in Calgary, it was like minus 30 or something ridiculously cold like that (celcius, people. I don't do farenheight). So my costume was actually just a snowsuit with balloons tied to it, and a big purple clown wig with a toque overtop. And facepaint, obviously. Next year I had one of the infamous plastic bag costumes, because they were the only thing that fit over that damn snowsuit (I was Miss Piggy). I knwo one year my mom made me a Counselor Troy costume, which was really awesome even though I didn't like Star Trek and didn't know who the hell I was dressed up as (at least I wasn't a red shirt). Those are my most memorable kid costumes.

As a teenager I got a little slack on the costumes because my brother and I always said "We're not going trick or treating, we're too old". Then my dad, who wanted free candy, would convince us on Halloween that we ought to go just one more year. These Halloweens were always pretty cold, so there would never be many kids around and we'd get loads of candy even though our costumes were such unoriginal things as murderes (we each had a plastic knife) and politicians (all you need is a tie and a smile).

My best costumes have been as an adult though. I was a devil princess, meaning I wore devil horns and a huge poufy red dress. I was a wood nymph, so I could wear a toga and a plastic vine, and I was a vampire, like everyone ever. My best costume was Avril Lavigne though. I was at a club and people kept bumping into me and I'd give them dirty looks and push them off me, and they all thought I was just in character when really I'm just a bitch.

My dream costume though is as Sailor Mars. Man that would be awesome, but I haven't done it yet because I'm always broke at Halloween and I will not have a 3rd rate Sailor Mars costume, like those cosplay people who have costumes that are like 3 sizes too big. No, I will only be Sailor Mars when I can convince my mom to custom make me a costume as good as my Counselor Troy one. One day...

Chestnuts roasted by Gabbylicious @ 08/19/2004 12:27 PM EST

Hahaha. Holy crap that post was long. That's what I get for not posting forever.

Chestnuts roasted by Gabbylicious @ 08/19/2004 12:28 PM EST

I was 9 months pg for Halloween one year and I just wore a nun ostume over my huge belly. Good times...

I do remember, as a kid, wearing one of those inflatable alien head things. It was bright yellow, and it sat on your head like a hat. It was huge. I remember having a hard time sitting in the car w/ the head on. I would have to tilt to the side to fit under the roof.

My Spanish teacher tried dressing up as a vampire one year when I was in 9th grade. He put Vasoline in his hair for "effect", and it took him days to wash it out. Hee!

Chestnuts roasted by trajeal @ 08/19/2004 12:41 PM EST

Oh, yeah. My poor kids have no choice of what they're going to be this eyar. I got all of their costumes on clearance last year for $1 each. My oldest will be a poodle skit wearing chearleader type, my middle one will be a dinosaur, and my youngest, a frog. At least I don't make my kids wear their older siblings costumes year after year, though.

Chestnuts roasted by trajeal @ 08/19/2004 12:44 PM EST

Hmmm... Let me see, other than being majority of the time being a witch, I was also a Egyptian queen once and a cheap barbie costume (one sold at Walgreen for example) with it plastic mask that look nothing like her. So out of those choice, my guess the Egytian queen was probably the best costume since it was better made than the other.

Chestnuts roasted by Beta-Theta @ 08/19/2004 12:51 PM EST

If I dress up, I ALWAYS dress up as Arthur Dent. I put on a bathrobe, get a stained towel, get my old HP-48 with "Don't Panic" painted on the cover and I jam a Swedish fish in my ear (I have to keep a supply handy, though, since they tend to get sticky and must be changed frequently.)

Chestnuts roasted by KodaK @ 08/19/2004 12:53 PM EST

But, I had fun picking my witch costume (when I was little) at Toy R' Us as I could also look down the toys for funs. What? Toy R' Us may now focus only on Babies (Babies R' Us). I blam Wal-Mart and other stores like it for lower it price to knock other buisness out.

Chestnuts roasted by Beta-Theta @ 08/19/2004 12:56 PM EST

I once wrapped myself in foil and went as a baked potato. Won a contest with that one. This year I was a trucker, complete with Elvis-style sunglasses and Amoco shirt from my gas station days. Once in my punk-teenage years and had "grown out" of All Hallows Eve, I was one of the annoying smart-asses who didn't bother with a costume, just went door to door getting free candy. I have since grown back into it.

Halloween countdown! Yes, Yes, a thousand times yes!!!!!!

Chestnuts roasted by jhnnywalkr @ 08/19/2004 12:57 PM EST

Best Halloween costume ever? I think my favorite was four years ago when I couldn't afford a real costume so I went out as a human. But that's only second to this year's costume. I'm gonna be King Diamond and my two foot tall cousin is gonna be a puppet. (Like from the King's Puppet Master record)

Chestnuts roasted by Meat Pöpsicle @ 08/19/2004 12:58 PM EST

I went for minimalism one year, just wore a cardboard sign held by an extention cord around my neck that said "Monster"

Chestnuts roasted by Trippy the 8th Dwarf @ 08/19/2004 01:52 PM EST

Best costume I wore to elementery: a homemade Darth Vader. Just dark clothes and a cape, with a plastic mask. Wore my glasses underneath, and it gave the mask a nice lens effect with the eyeholes. As in past years, I have volunteered to carve a jack o'lantern for my nephew's class. and one for my cousin's daughter's special ed class. Fastest free-hand carver on my block! Not that I'm any good, but it's fast or it's pie!

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 08/19/2004 01:57 PM EST

Let's see...my first halloween that I remember, I was a witch. Then I was a bunny, then a gypsy (clip on earrings=torture), a cowboy, a mouse, a hippy, a Beatle, a punk.

My two favorite halloween costumes:
1. Bag of Jelly Beans. I wore a sweatshirt and my mom blew up a bunch of multicolored balloons and pinned them to the sweatshirt. Then she put a giant clear plastic trash bag over my whole torso and tied it up around the neck with a bow, and a price tag sign hanging off...

2. Snowflake. I wore white leggings, a white turtleneck, white socks and sneakers, white stretchy gloves. I cut out 2 giant snowflakes out of posterboard, and attched them sandwich board style to my top. I then doused my ENTIRE body...face, clothes, hair, shoes and everything in silver spray glitter. This was my very favorite costume.

Chestnuts roasted by B-Dawg @ 08/19/2004 02:04 PM EST

What was that show, "Sky Racers" or something where the guys wore big backbacks and traveled across the sky on a string? I was a character from that one Halloween, it was a store bought costume. The kind that has the crappy plastic body suit with a picture of the same character you're trying to be on it (makes no sense) and a mask.

I've also been a skeleton (came with those awesome pajamas that have glow-in-the-dark bones printed on them), a devil, that stupid Scream thing (before the movie), John Lennon, Jason, a couple generic grotesque rubber masks... damn I had some boring costumes.

Chestnuts roasted by freeinabox @ 08/19/2004 02:17 PM EST

Oooooooh, Halloween Countdown!!! I cant wait.

Chestnuts roasted by pulseczar @ 08/19/2004 02:33 PM EST

My best was either a home-made Boba Fett costume I made many moons ago, or when I painted myself totally green and used some green Mr. Spock looking ears I found to make myself into an alien. My wife dressed as Dorthy from the Wizard of Oz, so we were quite the unusual combination.

Chestnuts roasted by a piece of milk @ 08/19/2004 03:07 PM EST

My best was myself

Chestnuts roasted by Paris Hilton's Vagina @ 08/19/2004 03:22 PM EST

IT's a three way tie between the Karate Kid, Michaelangelo from TMNT, and a hobo

Chestnuts roasted by Mike @ 08/19/2004 03:36 PM EST

Oh yeah I also went as The Undertaker one year.

Chestnuts roasted by Mike @ 08/19/2004 03:37 PM EST

I agree with Matt-- That Golden Girls DVD feature sucks.

Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 08/19/2004 03:39 PM EST

What about dressing up as a DVD and making "Director's Comments" on the Trick or Treat? "I remember when we went to this house. The treats were okay, but you couldn't beat the way the house was decorated! It was wonderful to work with these people."

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 08/19/2004 03:50 PM EST

I was spider-carnage. Basically its Carnage and Spider-man combined. It was fun being the villian instead of the regular spider-man.

Chestnuts roasted by Greg @ 08/19/2004 04:18 PM EST

My childhood halloweens were all spent in the cheap-ass dress in black with a pointy hat from the drug store witch variety.

More recently I was a sufferer of Munchausen's by proxy (2003) simple enough- wore regular clothes carried a dead baby around. In 2002 I was a stigmatic - By far my most creative moment ever! With some fake blood, bandages, brown lipstick and lotion i managed to create "the wounds of Christ" on my hands so realistically that the people sitting across from me on the subway pointed and audibly whispered that I probably should get to a hospital, or at least put some clean dressing on my wounds.

Chestnuts roasted by Julia Badtouch @ 08/19/2004 04:20 PM EST

My best ever was a bum costume. I was going to go out all decked out as a bum, looked so authentic, but I came down with pneumonia. I had kids coming to my house bringing me candy - NO LIE! (made me feel like the Godfather) Other costumes were of the plastic front/half mask kind (McCr0ry's 5 $ Dime store brand) - Batman, Superman, He-Man, Ninja Turtle (Leo), Army Soldier, Freddy Krueger. Plus I've worked/managed a Party Store for about 8 years. I've seen the best and worst there is to offer!

~Me want HONEYCOMB!

Chestnuts roasted by Mugzy. . . @ 08/19/2004 04:40 PM EST

I think my best costume was in kindergarten I was an astronaut with a cool helmet with lights I was robin hood once too, GREEN TIGHTS!

I think this year I'm gonna be "El Caliente - Master of The El Pollo Loco Flame!" xD

Chestnuts roasted by heeloyd @ 08/19/2004 04:44 PM EST

I was a Charmander in 6th grade. Char char.

Chestnuts roasted by Bloodshed Goth @ 08/19/2004 04:47 PM EST

Garfield and a dinosaur. The dino was the best because the tail kept tripping all the teachers on costume day. And that is definitely what I'd call "a good thing".

Chestnuts roasted by Kennef @ 08/19/2004 04:47 PM EST

Oh, and due to the fact of my trecherous job working at Party City's and such, it has diluted/ruined my sense of the "favorite" holiday most of you call Halloween. I, refered to it as Helloween!

~Captain CAAAAAVVVVEMANN!

Chestnuts roasted by Mugzy. . . @ 08/19/2004 04:49 PM EST

I was Popeye and the Hulk as a kid, then dressed up as sod once in my teens-- painted my face brain, spiked my hair with that nasty green hairspray, and put a few gummi worms in it.

And I cannot say enough times how thoroughly disappointed I am in the bonus feature on the Golden Girls DVD. I mean, it's better than bonus footage of Blanch getting in on with some guy, but not by much.

Chestnuts roasted by Shelby @ 08/19/2004 05:06 PM EST

The best costume I ever made was Tuxedo Mask from Sailor Moon, which was also the costume I wore the last time I ever went trick or treating. I already owned a tux from playing in the school band, so I got a cape, eye mask, top hat and cane. It looked cool, but everybody thought I was the Phantom of the Opera.

Another costume I was fond of, was one of those mask and plastic bag suit ones I wore when I was 5. It was skeletor, but unlike so many of these kind of custumes the plastic bag actually looked like his body instead of a picture. There was also a he-man, Lion-O, and Jem in my class so we were like a walking toy commercial.

Chestnuts roasted by Bright Noah @ 08/19/2004 05:16 PM EST

I always had rather lame costumes, my family not being exactly rich we always had to make ours. I think my favorite had to be the robot, we got a big long box for the body, a smaller one for the head and those tubes that come out of the dryer (know what Im talking about?) as my arms and legs. We then covered the whole thing in aluminum foil, glued in a bunch of random wires, found some old switches and buttons and stuck them into the card board. For the head we cut out a long eye hole but used red plastic gel to cover it up so i could see but it looked all red, and uh, evil. Oh and we took a TV antenna and pushed it into the top so I would look all roboty. Needless to say the thing was damn near impossible to move in but damn did it look cool. And the worst costume I ever had must have been the year I dressed as a vampire. It was a few years later, I was 12, but looked about 16, so it just looked weird to have me out trick or treating, got very little candy and plenty off weird looks and girls pointing and laughing. Ahhhhh sweet memories.

Chestnuts roasted by The Dude @ 08/19/2004 05:18 PM EST

As a pledge, I had to dress up as a giant ashtray and everyone had to ash on me for the entire night... which sucked my ass.

Chestnuts roasted by KappaSig_Man @ 08/19/2004 05:28 PM EST

I think the Golden Girls special features should include the lost episode where Bea Arthur reveals she's actually a man by whipping out her huge horsecock and yells at Blanche "You like cock so much why don't you get on your knees amd suck on this one?!"

Chestnuts roasted by Gnarkill @ 08/19/2004 05:31 PM EST

If we're talkin' Hallowe'en in August, will we talk about X-Mas next month?

chia.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 08/19/2004 05:52 PM EST

Sweet.
chronologicly...
Spiderman, Incredible Hulk, Lone Ranger, Ewok(it was 1983! I was 5!), Rubic the animated rubick's cube!!! (thats right baby), bank robber, Ninja, Punk, Killer Clown from outer space, then a break as I was "too cool to dress up" Adult years... LANDO freekin Calrissian (I'm white...) and The French Knight from Holy Grail!!!

Chestnuts roasted by Paulzy @ 08/19/2004 05:57 PM EST

i was sting the wrestler
the green power ranger
and jason and thats all the i can remember

Chestnuts roasted by Fink @ 08/19/2004 06:33 PM EST

I was Edward Sissorhands. I made the whole costume- sissorhands and all. It took two weeks. I remember i used all of my mom's leather belts. She was really pissed.

Chestnuts roasted by Astroboy @ 08/19/2004 06:39 PM EST

I trick or treated every year from Kindergarden to 12th grade (with the exception of 3rd, my mom was mad at me for failing math so I couldn't go). In 12th I went as a dominatrix with 13 of my friends. I had a whip a leather outfit, the works. I live in a small town where nothing exciting ever happens so 14 teens trick or treating is something to see. Oddly enough no one asked "Aren't you too old for this?" They all just look surprised and asked "Um so how many of you are there?"

Chestnuts roasted by Brite @ 08/19/2004 06:41 PM EST

The coolest one I've ever seen though was a kid dressed as a bathtub with running water and a shower curtain.

Chestnuts roasted by Brite @ 08/19/2004 06:43 PM EST

One year when I worked at Taco Bell we all decided that everyone who was working that night would dress up for halloween. I dressed up in a full baseball outfit, with cleats, hat, jersey, etc. Well guess what I was the only one who dressed up. I got a lot of comments that night, mostly positive, but I felt like an idiot.

Chestnuts roasted by Mr King @ 08/19/2004 07:09 PM EST

One year in grade school I went as whatever the name of the transformer was that was made from the war vehicles (tank, fighter plane, jeep, etc.). He was a Deceptacon, maybe Bruticus??? Anyway, I MADE THE COSTUME MYSELF out of a bunch of cardboard boxes and the mash from the previously reviewed Transformers Action Pack, only I painted it silver. I also covered the eyeholes from the inside with two of the red plastic strength decoder strips you always got. Anywho . . . The big thing in my school was a big parade around the playground for all the parents. I made it about a quarter of the way before I got all hot and tired. Big strong robot broke out of line and walked the walk of shame across the playground and went back inside. The wost part was I entered into the gym and had to go up stairs to get back to the classroom, but stairs were impossible with the boxes on my legs. I think one of the janitors carried me up or something. It was still an awesome costume though.

Chestnuts roasted by Dane E. Coffey @ 08/19/2004 07:18 PM EST

Halloween has always been high holiday for me, and I always want to do something new. Starting with my birth in January 1980:

1980 (age 10 months): Mom put me in a little sailor suit and went around to a few friends' houses. Don't remember this one.

1983: The first Halloween I actually remember, I went as a goblin, which was defined as a little guy in a bowler hat with a dog nose. Sort of Japanese-sounding, now that I think of it.

1985: The best ever: My dad made me a beautiful Optimus Prime costume by airbrushing the familiar truck cab onto a cardboard box, which I combined with some sort of disguise kit I had, an Optimus helmet and a gun with an Autobot symbol-- I still have this gun!

1987: Vampire. Red shirt, cape and teeth, nothing special. My brother, twelve years older, had a fantastic Grim Reaper costume he took me out in, though. Everyone remembers that.

1988: Mummy. I wanted to use toilet paper, but we ended up using thrift-shop sheets. I was the only Mummy at the halloween carnival that year, woo.

1989: Werewolf. Although I was too impatient to let the whole face go on, so it was more like "hirsute guy with a Castro beard."

1990, 91, and 92: Wraith. What's a wraith? Well, by a ten-year-old's definition, it's a ghostly thing with long, trailing sleeves and hood. The first year, my dad rigged up an LED headband so I could have piercing red eyes; second year, no eyes; third year, I put on a weird Beetlejuice mask so I could look all ugly when people took off the hood.

94: Fabio! Inspired by an MST3K invention exchange, I constructed a big fake Fabio chest and abs, plus a fake chin and hair. I won "Sexiest Costume" that year at the high school halloween party.

96: I'd rediscovered my love of Transformers, so I decided to make a costume that could actually transform: inspired by Beast Wars, and the Mummenschanz episode of The Muppet Show, I developed a costume where I could turn into a housefly just by crouching and turning around, and dubbed myself "Fly-By-Night." This costume won 'most creative' at that same high school halloween party.

98: My girlfriend and I did the familiar "Little Red Riding Hood and the wolf" pairing, although I put a little spin on my wolf by wearing ripped-out, too-small clothes and an ugly tie: yes, I was a wolf in cheap clothing.

99: Updating my goblin costume from years earlier, I was a Tengu this year, which entailed a long prosthetic nose, painting my face in Kabuki fashion, and wearing big wings outside my trench coat.

00: I had to work at the movie theater that day, so I chose a media-themed costume: Bumblebee Man from The Simpsons! Just black electrical tape around the yellow shirt, and an antenna cowl made from old tights and a couple of balls, and greet everyone in the theater with "Buenos dias!" That night I took my sister-in-law trick-or-treating, so I put on my trench coat, sunglasses, and a fake rifle, in order to become a Killer Bee.

03: My first group costume in a while; my friend Stephen, my girlfriend, and me, now all huge One Piece fans, went as Luffy, Nami, and Buggy the Clown, respectively!

Chestnuts roasted by G'Tron @ 08/19/2004 08:00 PM EST

I'm a 23 year old guy. I nearly asphyxiated myself trying to get into a Powerpuff Girls costume which was originally designed for an 8 year old. It took a squad of 4 brave people to squeeze that thing on me, with lots of ripping and humiliation throughout the process. I even put the little Power Puff Girl booties on over my shoes.

I drove 45 minutes to my friend's party with those damn little booties on, short of breath the whole time. There was a costume contest, and I had to go showboat on a makeshift stage. Someone grabbed my ass... wait, 3 people grabbed my ass, friggin perverts. Even with that, I was beat by some guy who actually appeared to be Darth Vader. All that humiliation for no reward. I doubt anyone groped the winner.

I don't even want to get into how I got the damn thing off. Be careful with scissors, kids.

I'm sure there's a picture of it all out there on the internet somewhere.

Chestnuts roasted by quartalchondriac @ 08/19/2004 08:04 PM EST

Since I'm not a big fan of horror, Halloween has never been my all-time favorite holiday...but dressing up is fun at any time of the year. It helped that my mother was and is a world-class seamstress and craft artist, so my sisters and I always had simple but pretty and well-made costumes that were far removed from the plastic mask-and-painted-coverings worn by most kids.

My costumes were always the simplest. While my sisters came up with increasingly outrageous ideas year after year, I was Alice In Wonderland, a princess, a queen, a fairy, a butterfly, a bride, a cowgirl, a pirate, a gypsy, and the year I got into old "film noir" mystery movies, a old-time movie private eye. I've been a flapper ("hip" 20s female) twice, during my junior high years and last year. I was a hula dancer the year before that and a black cat for a party in college.

Chestnuts roasted by starwenn @ 08/19/2004 08:20 PM EST

I remember wearing a Ben Cooper Batman mask-and-plastic smock thing when I was five (with a Bat-Symbol on the cowl!),and a G.I. Joe one like that in the first grade of no real particular Joe character,just your average army guy with the RAH logo on the helmet. In the fourth grade,I was a jungle explorer,with a T-shirt with gun belts on it like those t-shirts with a tux on them and a fake,pith helmet,and in the sixth and seventh grades I was Jason and the Phantom of the Opera respectively.

I've never really dressed up since then,but I often think about it. For example,I have the right build and hair to be Baron Harokken from Dune.

Chestnuts roasted by Overlord @ 08/19/2004 08:25 PM EST

...Princess Eilonwy or however you spell it.

Chestnuts roasted by Silkenray @ 08/19/2004 08:40 PM EST

The worst one? Hmm...

It'd have to be ECW-era Spike Dudley. Tie-dye shirt, overalls, the broken glasses. The whole works. Actually, +5 for me having the balls to go around in public wearing that.

Chestnuts roasted by Dr. Plusbee @ 08/19/2004 09:58 PM EST

I was Mario like 6 times (classic costume...my mom even drew the big mustache on me!). Then I got really into Mike Tyson's Punch-Out and in consecutive years in elementary school I was King Hippo, Piston Honda (I painted my skin yellow!), Super Macho Man, and the best of all, Mike Tyson himself. The game never got old for me, I still have the NES up at college. I've been Jason, an alligator, a dog, the usual pumpkin, probably Mario a few more times in there, Troy Aikman, and last year, O.J. Simpson (I was wearing a glove with fake blood and I had a huge plastic machete with the blood on it and everything...I even got my friend to escort me to some houses in his white bronco, and we'd run to the bronco and he'd scream "Get in, Juice!" and he'd randomly yell out the window "This A.C.!"
Wow, Halloween rules. I'll probably dress up as John Madden this year, or maybe Nick Nolte from his famous mugshot...click on my name to see the link. But I'll probably end up as Mario again!

Chestnuts roasted by Kappin @ 08/19/2004 10:54 PM EST

I have been many bad things for Halloween. One year I needed a quick costume so I wraped myself in cling wrap and went as a leftover. What seemd a good idea at first turned into one of the Hottest costumes on the planet. I was sweating for hours. I have also taped boxes of cerial to my entire body and made them look bloody to go as a cerial killer. (I won a prize for that one) The one I seemed to get the most attention out of all my costumes was when I wrapped myself in tolliet paper and had a had a rope dnagle behind me. (I was a tampon) Don't worry, I didn't wear it around kids. My personal favorite was three years ago I went as Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. I grew my hair out long enough and had it done just like in the movie.

Chestnuts roasted by Nick @ 08/19/2004 11:27 PM EST

My first costume was a clown when I was 2. The next year I was Twink, the white sprite from rainbow brite. I was one of those Ben cooper costumes. The twink was one of my faves. I've been a witch at least 3 times. My other fave was when my mom and I made a Gwen Stefani costume in 2000. I usually have big halloween ideas but, never have the money, time, or guts to make or complete the costume.

Chestnuts roasted by pikachulover @ 08/20/2004 01:37 AM EST

3 come to mind:

One year I was Inspector Gadget, complete with tinfoil helicopter blades coming out of my hat.

Another year I was Spider-Man. The body suit was store bought, so my mom made the mask... out of underwear. The only thing that would give it away was the stretchy-elastic collar.

The best was the year my mom made me a Jason (Friday the 13th) outfit. We bought the hockey mask, and my mom cut up an old sweatshirt, and made tons of blood stains on it. Mom kicks ass.

Chestnuts roasted by Jordan @ 08/20/2004 02:19 AM EST

BTW, my worst costume was Pee-Wee Herman. YIKES.

Chestnuts roasted by Jordan @ 08/20/2004 02:20 AM EST

When I was a wee'un, I know I was a Pound Puppy once or twice (yeah, lame) and Threepio too. And of course, a sheet wearing ghost. I was Jason one year, and I've been a grim reaper. One year I wore pantyhose over my head and carried a big plastic knife. I was also RotJ-era Luke Skywalker once.

I think my best costume was Mulder from the X-Files, I had the suit and long overcoat, along with cell phone and flashlight. I even made an ID and badge that were pretty cool. My friends and I snuck into one of those corn mazes after it had closed, so the flashlight was useful.

One of my friends in grade school had a really cool Edward Scissorhands costume. Then another year, he was Peter Pan, which meant green tights, which meant mockery.

This year, I want to be Dr Mario, and throw water balloons at people. heh

Chestnuts roasted by marioshoku @ 08/20/2004 02:38 AM EST

Back in 2001, I had sort of a living dead thing going on. Thing was, I wasn't wearing a costume - I had mono, so my skin was pale and yellow, and I had severely dark rings under my eyes. I didn't have to do a dang thing! That was my BEST costume ever!

Chestnuts roasted by Sara @ 08/20/2004 03:34 AM EST

The best costume I ever had was when I went as a cheese and lettuc sandwich. I was sandwiched between two pieces of foam that my mom made look like pieces of bread, and then she added yellow fabric for the cheese and green fabric for the lettuce whose ends she sewed in a way to get the ruffle of lettuce. Seemed to get a good response. I even wore it to a bar on Hallowe'en 10 years after I first wore it, it seemed to get good response from the ladies. Some retard thought I was a toilet seat however.

Chestnuts roasted by machinesquad @ 08/20/2004 08:55 AM EST

The water balloon Dr. Mario idea sounds pretty killer.

Another one I forgot -- for several years, my neighbor across the street and I would dress up as "hobos," wearing his father's gasoline-soaked, oil-stained clothes. (he was a mechanic) This was usually for any of the school/scouts/other parties that required costumes we neglected to buy. Our parents decided to make us "hobos."

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 08/20/2004 10:40 AM EST

Superman, Ernie (with giant paper mache head), Gumby, Mario, Bart Simpson (with another giant paper mache head), Spider-Man, Captain America & Link were among my best.

I'd say the Cap'n comes in at #1. I made a shield out of a 99-cent drink tray & an old Rambo poster that somebody was going to throw out. Really, now!

Chestnuts roasted by Mike Fireball @ 08/20/2004 11:39 AM EST

One time when I was 17, I dressed up as a 5 year old trick-or-treating as a skeleton, I took a skeleton costume that was the size of a 5 year old and pinned it ontop of the cloths I was wearing that day and then I put on the tiny skeleton mask. My idea was that if anyone complained that I was too old, my costume would make up for it, and sure enough this woman said to me "you're too old, go home" and I said "but i'm dressed as a 5 year old trick or treating." to which she replied "that isn't funny" and slammed the door in my face.

Chestnuts roasted by s0fa @ 08/20/2004 12:35 PM EST

My best costume ever was Spike Spiegel from Cowboy Bebop two years ago. Wore the right clothes, had my hair in the right style and dyed green, everything.

Chestnuts roasted by Behonkiss @ 08/20/2004 12:45 PM EST

this year, i was a mexican pot head.
i wore a sombrereo and taped a plastic planting pot on top.
oh yeah.

Chestnuts roasted by ralph @ 08/20/2004 01:31 PM EST

i was a pretty bad sailor moon in second grade. then i was that stupid peace bear beanie baby. last year, i ended up being a gas station attendant, in an oversized mechanic's shirt from warped '96 with the name tag "lyle." good times. this year, i'm going as rico suave. rrrrico.

Chestnuts roasted by amy rose (nope, not stolen from sonic) @ 08/20/2004 03:05 PM EST

The earliest costume I remember was the racoon from "Getalong Gang". That was shit.

Then the awesomeness of Mumm-Ra waited for me a few years later...however, upon wearing my cheap-o costume (the ones in the box), I became very depressed. I never remember one episode of "Thundercats" wear Mumm-Ra was wearing a costume with himself on his chest.

Then the costume that every boy once wore...a black ninja outfit. COMPLETE with ninja stars...little did I know that when you're this high, there's no where left to go but dooowwnnn...

So came the final year I dressed up for Hallooween as a kid. No costume, no mask. Just a cheap suit from Alexander's. What was I you ask? Well, if memory serves me right, I believe I told MANY people that I was...a rich old man. That's right. Rich...old..man.
Mind you, no gray hair. Nor did I wear glasses or a cane. Nope. Just me, in 5th grade, with a suit on.

Yep...

Chestnuts roasted by Nando D'mando @ 08/20/2004 03:07 PM EST

I once was a Ninja Turtle, but the next year the Turtles concert video was my favorite thing so my mom glued a glittery star to the bandana.
Last year, I went to a Halloween party as a doctor; didn't win the costume contest because there were some better costumes (like this kick-ass Spongebob- I think he won first place).

Chestnuts roasted by JG! @ 08/20/2004 03:09 PM EST

Umm...I was Monica Lewinsky the year that all that crap went down.

Apparently every girl and her mom decided to be Monica Lewinsky...I was the only one with a *ahem* laminated name tag...everyone else just wrote it out by hand last minute.

My best costume: I was a goldfish in kindergarten. My mom can sew like a mofo and it was the most elaborate representation of a fish I've ever seen on a 5-year old. I even had this sparkling home-made crown cuz I was a MAGICAL goldfish.

Chestnuts roasted by SovietRocket @ 08/20/2004 03:14 PM EST

Snowman, Big Bird, Butterfly, Wizard, Witch, Micheal Jackson, Karate Lion (oh yes you heard correctly), Disco Diva. My favorite though was when i dressed up as Miss Scarlet from Clue. I carried a candlestick all day and when i was at school people would ask me where i killed Mr. Body. "The Hall of course." It was classic

Chestnuts roasted by Ally @ 08/20/2004 05:05 PM EST

A bee ("You know, from nature?", the Terminator, the Cryptkeeper, a headless man, a ninja victim, a mad doctor, and Ozzy.

My dream costume would be Alucard from Hellsing, but first I'd need to grow about a foot, lose ~80 pounds, grow my hair out, and shell out at least a grand for the trenchcoat, hat, gloves, boots, guns, etc.

Chestnuts roasted by hamburger man @ 08/20/2004 06:09 PM EST

KodaK's memory of dressing as Arthur Dent reminded me of when I made a Zaphod Beeblebrox costume. My mom created a stuffed third arm and I attached the fake severed hand we got her for Mother's Day one year. Then I made a second head out of paper mache that was even less convincing than that plastic head they used in the TV series.

Paper mache seemed to be a staple of my Halloween costumes. I remember when I was absolutely obessed with Darkman and made a paper mache bandage mask and wore a coat and fedora. Problem was everybody thought I was supposed to be a mummy. "I'm DARKMAN!" I had to yell at the principal during the grade school parade.

Then there was the year I wore a shirt and slacks and printed up a bunch of audit forms and went as a government bureaucrat. Amazingly, nobody pulled a gun on me when I told them they were being audited. When I ran out of forms, I claimed I was selling encyclopedias.

And in the tradition of using cardboard boxes to make costumes, I went one year as a Betamax VCR. I took a box, painted it black and taped on a Sony Betamax logo. Then I cut the tape slot in front and attached my candy bag to the inside so people would have to stuff the candy through the tape slot.

Chestnuts roasted by Alex @ 08/20/2004 08:34 PM EST

lets see...ive been a dinosaur a gargoyle and my personal favourite a werewolf( possibly of london i dont remember)

Chestnuts roasted by sexynigelthepharoahwizard @ 08/20/2004 09:10 PM EST

I have not been in the Halloween groove for a while now but I have a couple costume ideas this year. My favorite costumes are:
my Jekyll/Hyde (or Two-Face) -esque costume in which one half of my face was me while the other had a gnarly hairdo and face makeup and stuff. My mom even cut an old coat in half along with one a long white butcher's apron and sewed the halves together. I carried around a knife made of cardboard and tinfoil and put fake blood on the apron.

my pervert costume. I believe this is my most recent, making it a few years old now. I had some old swim trunks that were a little too short and a t-shirt that was a little too big, so I put on the trunks, hiked them up so they weren't visible under the shirt, and wore a pair of old jeans around my ankles. I only went to a couple of houses with my family before going back home, but my mom was in stiches.

I've been Daffy Duck (one of those aforementioned mask with character on smock ensembles), the Devil, a tax collector, and.... I can't remember anymore. Sad, I really should do something this year.

Chestnuts roasted by Some guy named John @ 08/20/2004 09:32 PM EST

And to those of you who are gonna pass out...... candy this year, dress up. Back in my Cali days, one house we went to twice because the young lady there wore a very nice Genie/Harem outfit. Spiffyness personified. Ah, youth.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 08/21/2004 04:43 PM EST

The Mask, Complete with skullcap and pin-striped suit.

Not to mention it was during my lsd days so I was pretty *into* the part.

"It's Party time! P-A-R-T- Why? b-Cuz I GOTTA!"

Chestnuts roasted by Cyanyde @ 08/21/2004 05:28 PM EST

Cactus Jack, or The Hurricane. Both of them were pretty neat.

Chestnuts roasted by Rawr @ 08/21/2004 07:42 PM EST

Over the years, I've been Oscar the Grouch (one of those cheapo plastic mask and smock deals), an elephant, a police officer, a football player, a baseball player, a Transformer (another one of those cheap kind), Batman (consisting of a cheap plastic mask, Batman T-shirt, and a Dracula cape), a Ninja Turtle (Leonardo), a Ghostbuster (this costume was made from a blue and white jumpsuit left over from a robot costume I had never worn, looked nothing like a real Ghostbuster suit, but it was still better than most I've had), a ninja, and in the last two Halloweens I did, a raptor from Jurassic Park.

Chestnuts roasted by Andrew Morse @ 08/21/2004 11:47 PM EST

hmm... a black cat, a detective, phantom of the opera, a Starfleet officer, once from the original series, and once from the other series... Boba Fett... i actually made a mask out of cardboard that attached to a bicyce helmet, but all i wore beneath was a green shirtand khakis... an alien (employing silver paint). i think my favorite was the 'alternative spice' kids me and a bunch of my friends did... Sugar Spice, Spicy Spice, Old Spice, Boy Spice, and me (though also a boy), Homicidal Spice. yes, it was lame, but we were sixth graders.

uhm... i've gone gothic the last few years, and this year i had an insane-doctor type outfit from a cosplay i'd done with a bloody labcoat... i wore it on the bus and to college, and the people in my women in art class thought i was a bloody tampon (i somewhat resembled an art piecewe'd studied).

this year me and my best friend are going as Jay and Silent Bob (i'm gonna be Bob). we have the right looks for it.

Chestnuts roasted by sobriquette @ 08/22/2004 06:13 AM EST

I've been Punisher, Freddy Krueger, and a ninja.

The Punisher costume was probably the best one, had a black sweater with the skull painted on, slicked my hair back, and carried around a big toy gun.

Chestnuts roasted by Paul @ 08/22/2004 01:56 PM EST

An elephant, a rainbow, a construction worker, a vampire, the grim reaper, the Invisible Man, a sheriff, and some monster thing.

The best of all these is a tie between the invisible man, in which I was completely covered, and the monster thing, in which I painted myself green and black along with torn up clothes and partially orange-colored hair.

Chestnuts roasted by Nate @ 08/22/2004 04:48 PM EST

I have a homemade Disco Stu costume that I absolutely love and it kicks total ass. I have worn that the past couple of years.

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Monkey @ 08/22/2004 08:58 PM EST

I once dressed up like a zombie, and carried around a Kermit the Frog puppet. I was the corpse of Jim Henson. I've been thinking of busting that one out again this year.

Chestnuts roasted by Elmo Machete @ 08/22/2004 09:53 PM EST

Last year I was a pile of laundry. I just tied a bunch of my scarves onto my clothes. The party host, a Master Costumer yet, thought it was a great idea. Another year, I was a victim to my boyfriend's vampire: white dress, white face paint, red 'blood' on my neck. But nothing will top my Miss Piggy outfit when I was 8 years old: my mom's lilac bridesmaid dress [circa 1956] over a pink sweatsuit, long black gloves, little ears on a headband, and a pig snout made from a Dixie Cup. Sigh....

Chestnuts roasted by Divaah46 @ 08/23/2004 02:40 PM EST

In the third grade my mom made me a hershey's kiss costume. I had to waddle around all day at school in that fucker. I even had a little hat with the Hershey's paper sticking out of it. The only bad thing, when I stood in the sun, the silver-ish material acted as a death-beam (much like tin-foil) & blinded everyone standing within a mile of myself. Including me.
Oh, & one time I had to come up with a costume last-minute (as in...two seconds before I went trick-or-treating), & decided to go as a mime. Apparently I was the only one who could figure it out, since all the old ladys who opened their doors to give me cheap, off-brand candy thought I was a burglar. Eventually I just gave up on saying "trick-or-treat" & just said "give me all your money" when they opened the door. Except. I didn't really. But that would have been awesome.

Chestnuts roasted by emilytoastwater @ 08/23/2004 08:49 PM EST

As a kid I remember wearing a dog costume that I hated, it reminds me a lot of the bunny costume from A Christmas Story. There is pictures of me all pouting while wearing it too. I remember being a ninja, a clown and my greatest costume as a kid was Rambo. My aunt made me a body suit that had all kinds of muscles and I wore the thin bandana, a bunch of fake knives, had a huge toy gun, camo pants, everything. It was awesome.

As an adult my best costume was the grim reaper one I put together a couple years ago. I had a real cycle and everything. I went to a huge halloween party my fraternity has every year, but I didn't tell anyone who I was. I sat on the bus by myself and didn't move, so everyone though I was a dummy until we got to the party and I stood up and half the girls around me screamed. Then I spent the first half of the party just walking around the outside edge of the lit area staring at everyone freaking them out. Eventually they threatened to call the cops cause nobody knew who the hell I was and I scared the hell out of them. So I finally took my mask off and proceeded to party like crazy.

Chestnuts roasted by Beerstalker @ 08/24/2004 11:55 AM EST

One year my mother paid my creative aunt to make us halloween costumes and I won a prize for my Michaelangelo costume. I also remember some kids laughing at my tights. Which probably led unto the worst, but probably the most fun for some reason, was when my cousins, brothers, and I all dressed as girls. Of course, we overdid it, and all looked like cheap ugly whores. The pictures are the proof. The best was as Elvis, last year.

Chestnuts roasted by G4L @ 08/26/2004 12:56 AM EST

When I was little, I was one of the Moon Dogs. You know, the wrestlers. Pretty pathetic what my mother dressed me in. In 8th grade I wen't as a sexy witch. Seemed a little risque to me at the time, but my guy friends seemed to love it. When I was about 5 I wen't as Ernie in one of those plastic costumes. Complete with the mask that broke after 20 minutes from picking on it. My favorite costume was Roxie Hart. I was her last year.

Chestnuts roasted by Jessie @ 08/26/2004 09:12 PM EST

1. The Joker - following the release of Batman in '89, I just HAD to be the Joker. My mom made the costume ... the makeup crusted - as most cheap store-bought official character makeup does.

2. Two-Face - following the start of the '92 Batman: The Animated Series cartoon, I couldn't help but try to be the really cool looking, half-ugly villain. The makeup again crusted, but I didn't worry so much this time because, hey, it was Two-Face. Oh, and my mom sewed together two different suits to make the black and white combo suit that Two-Face wore in the cartoon. God bless my mom.

3. Superman/Clark Kent - when it came time to don the tights and go out as Superman in fifth grade ... I didn't. I wore the tights under a suit I wore for my first communion (I was a little late there). I wore glasses without lenses, and a reporter's fedora. I looked ... like a dork - and absolutely nothing like Superman. Oh, and this costume coincided with the start of the Lois and Clark TV series. My mom again sewed a S logo onto some tights ... notice the pattern here?

I think that was the last time my mom made a costume for me ... and I think the last time I wore one. Oh, no ... nope, I'm mistaken. In my junior year of high school, I dressed up as the Joker again ... and the makeup crusted again and someone spilled wax on me. I could have put an exploding cigar in their mouth ... if only I had had one.

Chestnuts roasted by Dave @ 08/27/2004 03:55 PM EST

The earliest one I remember was a princess (my mom's nightgown, hooker makeup, tiara). The most memorable: When I was in 3rd grade, my mom made me a kick-ass witch costume (so I could play the Wicked Witch in the Wizard of Oz, which we did on Halloween) but sent along green creme eye-makeup to make my face green. It wasn't until after the play was over that I discovered the green makeup was... ooops... waterproof. I had a green face all day.

When I was 11 or so, I made a Mummenschanz costume out of a box and a ton of embroidery thread. I was a dorky kid.

As an adult, I've been Scully, Marge Simpson, and a boring witch. I've been concentrating on my kids' costumes for the past few years, but this year I'm dressing again. We do themes, and the kids want to dress from Shrek, so I'm either going to be Fiona (the Ogre one), or the Fairy Godmother. I'd like to convince my husband to go as the Ugly Stepsister (the Larry King part) but he probably won't go for it. My 4-yr old will be Shrek, and my 2-yr old will be Donkey. I wanted to dress him as Lord Farquad, but DH didn't want his little one to be a bad guy. Give him a few years and he'll be painting the fake blood all over the kid.

Chestnuts roasted by JT @ 08/29/2004 08:53 AM EST

last year i went to a halloween costume party dressed as julius from pulp fiction(samuel. l jackson's character) my friend john dressed like travolta's character and my fine ass best friend laurel was the lovely ms. wallace. it was truly awesome; especially after i made friends with the keg and got into character. =)

Chestnuts roasted by Bump @ 08/30/2004 02:26 AM EST

this last year i went as the cure's robert smith with the white makeup,smeared lipstick,big hockey jersey with black pants and white shoes with the tounge out...i was sorta a weird hybrid of all of the different eras..my friend shelly went as siouxee(if thats how you spell it) and you couldnt quite tell us apart..well she has boobs...

Chestnuts roasted by Aqua Fina = Fine Water @ 08/30/2004 03:45 AM EST

in 7th grade i was axl rose. i wore an "offensive" t-shirt that said "jocks have beautiful balls" on the front and pictures of baseball, football, etc. on the back, white spandex bike shorts, plaid shirt tied around my waist, and black boots with white socks cuffed above the top. plus a bandana around my head with a baseball hat on top. i even had my friend exactly draw his tattoos on my arms with markers. it was so sweet. and btw, i'm a girl.

Chestnuts roasted by jenr @ 08/31/2004 12:23 PM EST

i was the hulk last year. almost completely nude and covered in cheap green makeup, much like the clientel of your nearest tgi fridays.

Chestnuts roasted by ollie @ 09/08/2004 02:36 PM EST

I was Elvira (Mistress of the Dark) in normal clothes one year, 2 years ago I was Melody from Josie and the pussycats, and last year I was a 80's hooker. (Classic)

Chestnuts roasted by Shugga @ 09/08/2004 04:45 PM EST

When i was 8 i dressed as Lawrence d'Arabia,it was an amazing costume.
Another year my mother deccided to dress my sister as a man ,and me as a woman!
I wore skirt,a wig,heels and my mother also did my makeup and nails.My sister had great
fun that day.

Chestnuts roasted by richard @ 09/19/2004 06:03 PM EST

Iam looking for some sort of "simpsons" Disco Stu costume.
Any insight"?

Chestnuts roasted by chad @ 10/07/2004 12:53 PM EST

In college, I went as Bubbles from Powerpuff girls(I'm a guy). I had a sweet blue dress, white tights, a wig, and these plastic glasses that were made to look like her big blues. We'll, I got real drunk, real fast, and lost the wig & glasses. I'm usually a really happy drunk, but I just got really sad at the bar because I was just this dude in a stupid blue dress...like I wasn't even trying.
The next night I went as Slash from Guns n Roses...top hat, leather jacket, cheesy kids electric guitar that plays music with the press of a button, and two packs of Marb Reds(there was one in my mouth at all times)...as a usual non-smoker, I woke up feeling like hell, and my throat was on fire for a week.

Chestnuts roasted by MikeK @ 10/14/2004 02:44 PM EST

Halloween is one of my favorite holidays during the year. I have worn many many costumes throughout the years. The range has gone from a “Cone-Head” to “Elwood” from “Blues Brothers” to “Frankenstein” to “Elvira”. The worst costumes were the ones that were not suited for a hot night. Once I dressed as a French Maid and got allot more action from that costume than any other. A good-looking guy new, in the apartments, was in a Tarzan outfit that was killer on him; the two of us were like together the entire party, so when the party was over we went skinny-dipping in the apartment Jacuzzi. He was all over me and it was the best ever. I would have to say I miss that costume the most and it is my favorite.

Miss Vicky

Chestnuts roasted by Miss Vicky @ 10/29/2004 07:48 PM EST

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