You can not classify that as a costume

[Geek King]

I'm ashamed of myself for getting this joke...

Welcome to the geek side. I was thinking of possible Hayate the Combat Butler jokes myself. Especially about his catgirl costume (most. wrong. episode. ever.).

[Jester]

My biggest costume pet peeve of the weekend is . . . . . .the girls that wear nothing but a bra and underwear. Did a miss a memo somewhere stating that the top costume of the year is a Victoria Secret model? I guess it is a cheap costume, but there are some people that just should not dress like that no matter what.

Same goes for guys running around in boxers.

Yeah, we get a lot of "risque" costumes down here for Fantasy Fest, but some are more risque than others. My most risque costume (and my ONLY risque costume, come to think of it) is Perverted Zorro, wherein I dress up in a black Zorro hat, black Zorro type mask, black cape...and a black thong. However, I was overdressed compared to some people this year. My friend James was wearing Saran Wrap. ONLY Saran Wrap. And James is, how shall I say this, extraordinarily well-endowed. Women AND men were in awe. But to his credit, that was at a party that had the word kinky in the title....he wasn't walking everywhere like that. However, many people were wearing equally outrageously skimpy outfits, many women in body paint, and even that was cool....and then one night, mixed with all of these people, a girl walked into The Bar wearing precisely nothing. No body paint, no thong, just stark naked. Don't know if that was her costume or she just felt like letting it all hang out, but it wasn't just risque, but risky, as cops WOULD arrest her for that.

I once met two girls at a party that went as each other.

Last year at the end of Fantasy Fest, for my last costume I went dressed as my friend Frank. Which was hilarious. I walked into his bar wearing a white tux shirt, a black suit jacket (he's a magician, and for special events will often dress up), a black fedora (his trademark), a nametag that said "Frank", a deck of cards in one hand, a box of Camel Lights (his brand) in the other, and kept saying to everyone his most notorious line, "How we doing, boys and girls?" It was killer. Everyone at his bar got it instantly, but what was weird was that a lot of people downtown at the Duval Street bars got it too......

Worst one ever was this guy who turned up dressed in weird brown clothes to a Halloween party once. Brown trousers, brown shirt and brown shoes. "I'm a chocolate bar, of course."

One year I was going to a friend's Halloween party, and had no idea what I was going to do for a costume until the last minute. Someone suggested I go as a raisin, and I thought about it, and actually upped the ante. I dressed in black pants, black sweatshirt, and black sneakers, pulled a black garbage bag over me, with holes for my head and arms, and took the toilet seat off of one of our toilets, cleaned it up, and threw it around my neck....and went as a turd.

I won Most Tasteless Costume at the party!

The Grim Peeper.

Finally, hats off to the guy who went as a blind ref...

3 or 4 years ago, we had a coworker that dressed as a waiter with a tray that had a bunch of cobwebs on it.

The costume ---- a Web server.

I went to a costume party as a vampire bunny. The teeth were a little tricky...

A few years ago my dad's office(they are all computer programers) organised and dressed up as the Geek Squad. I saw pictures. It was scary.

One guy was dressed in a long black trench coat, hiding behind a bus stop. He lept infront of us, opened his coat while shouting "HEY BABY! SMILE!" He was naked, except for the giant he was wearing over his privates.

...another friend as a priest and his girlfriend as a young boy,

All of these are CLASSIC!

One year in my early twenties the waitresses at the bar I worked talked me into this. Problem was, I had long hair, and I let them do my makeup and pick my clothes.

Why is this a problem? All night at the various parties I was asked why I didn't bother dressing up....

Kind of a blow to the ol' masculine ego.

I had one costume one year that threw a few people, and they didn't realize it was a costume. I dressed up as an Old Man. Got a cane, borrowed some clothes from my stepfather (he was not sure whether to be amused or offended that I was using his clothes for my Old Man costume!), greyed my hair with powder, found an old fedora, and used liquid latex to make my face look much older and wrinklier. (I was 20 at the time.) It was so effective that when I went up to a female friend of mine in the dorm parking lot to say hi, she started walking away from me, thinking I was some perverted old man! Too funny!

The best Jack Skellington I ever saw was at the Shipwreck 94 costume contest. The guy had a full-blown paper mache skull and puppet arms. He was incredible.

Nice. My buddy Bird for years has dressed up as Jack from the Jack in the Box commercials, complete with a huge paper mache Jack head that his wife, my best friend Neets, has made several times. Utterly hilarious. He has won a few prizes with that one.

For you SNL fans, Bird has also been known to dress up as Adam Sandler's Opera Man.

... a bruise of pimps? A gaggle of pimps? A sequester of pimps?

While I think that Raps hit it square with a bling of pimps, I have to offer a few suggestions for the name of a pimp group:

A fucking of pimps.
A whoopass of pimps.
A DAAAMN! of pimps.
My personal favorite: A bitchslap of pimps.


Other great costumes:

I had a roommate in college named Bill who was very different. He had long hair, and one year he dressed up as a nun. He didn't shave his scruffy Shaggy-like facial hair for it. He did add combat boots and a gas mask. It was...different.

Don't know if he ever managed to get his dream costume going, though. What he wanted to do was dress up as Satan, have 12 friends dress up as apostles, and have them rollerskating through town in a parade, with him on a throne they would be carrying litter style. I DID say Bill was very different, didn't I?

Last year I did one very happy costume: Mr. Smiley. From bottom to top: sandals, smiley face Joe Boxer socks, black and yellow smiley face pajama bottoms, black t-shirt, TWO yellow smiley face neckties, smiley face beads, and a Dr. Seuss type big ole smiley face hat. Definitely one of my more pleasant costumes. Who could get mad at Mr. Smiley?!?!?!

This year, for only the second time since I first did it in 1990, I dressed up as a Blues Brother. Scarily, neither then nor now did I have to buy anything...had everything I needed already in my wardrobe. And since I was doing this as a SOLO Blues Brother, I would inevitably get the question "Which one are you?" My response never changed. In my best Dan Aykroyd Chicago deadpan voice, I always said, "Elwood. Jake's dead, ma'am." Must say, I put a few people off with that one.

Maybe next year I'll go as Jim Morrison. Just have to find a lightweight bathtub to move around.....

Probably my oddest and most embarrassing Halloween costume was the one from second grade. I was sick of using the same old costume every year (Bullwinkle, of all things), and I voiced my objection to that. Well, my mom and older sister got together with some construction paper and some cardboard, made two large round brown discs with black splotches here and there, attached them with shoulder straps, and put this over me....and I was a Chocolate Chip Cookie.

There are two things I still haven't forgiven my mother for: my middle name and that damn costume.

[RebeccaOTool]

My friends all did video game characters this year (I was Princess Peach). Both my Boyfriend and one of my girl friends went as Link. My BF is a bit...thicker in the middle than she is though, so she was normal Link and he was Middle Aged Link. XD Good times.

[Bella_Vixen]

Don't know if he ever managed to get his dream costume going, though. What he wanted to do was dress up as Satan, have 12 friends dress up as apostles, and have them rollerskating through town in a parade, with him on a throne they would be carrying litter style. I DID say Bill was very different, didn't I?

I LOVE that!

[zzapp the witch]

My date pasted his beard (I call it a chin stripe) with sugar glaze, put on a snorkel and went as a muff diver. I alternately carried a rubber ball and a rubber chicken, answering variously that I was a ball licker or a cock sucker. It was an adult themed party at a local bar. I think my date was the only guy not dressed up as either a logger or a pimp. And I was the only girl with clothes on. And I was one of the few girls that could have gotten away with not wearing any. /gag

One guy walked around with a cup full of milk he kept trying to sell to everyone: sperm donor. Grossest (non)costume I saw: A gal so fat she was right out of Norbit, you honestly couldn't tell if she was wearing bottoms. And I do say if....even the bouncer couldn't comfirm it.....

Now to go back and read everyone's adventures.

[hecubus]

One of my favorite costumes was back in 1986, when I was in college. At that time, due to some medical conditions I won't go into, I had to be in a wheelchair that had the foot rests extended out in front of me and the back of the wheelchair reclined at about a 45 degree angle. Think of me as a rolling 135 degree angle.

Anyway, I draped a white sheet over myself, made some gates out of toothpicks and paper, and a skier out of toothpicks and went as the ski jump from the 1986 Winter Olympics.

I came in second in the costume contest behind a couple in rented Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler costumes.

[Jester]

Y'all reminded me of one more costume I dearly loved, though I don't know if you could really call it a costume.

A guy in a wheelchair was dressed completely normally, but had a stuffed rooster in his lap.

Naturally everyone kept complimenting him on what a nice, big cock he had. It was hilarious.

And if I could figure out how to post the picture from my hard drive to here, I would. Anyone have any suggestions? And no, I don't have a webpage, a myspace account, or any external sites I could upload the picture to, either. I know. I suck. Tell me about it.

[Nox]

Sometimes a really subtle costume is the best kind. I've already got next years all planned out.

I'll wear normal clothes, with teeny tiny drops of red ink on them. I'm going to put red ink under my nails and put a pair of toy hand cuffs around one wrist, with one cuff dangling.

It's going to kick ass.

[MadMike]

"a homicidal maniac, they look just like everyone else" (yeah, thank you, Wednesday Addams)

Back when we still dressed up at my job, my disgruntled cubicle neighbor just came in regular clothes. If someone asked, he'd tell them he was in costume. He was dressed as someone who gives a shit.

[Jester]

I'll wear normal clothes, with teeny tiny drops of red ink on them. I'm going to put red ink under my nails and put a pair of toy hand cuffs around one wrist, with one cuff dangling.

Okay, maybe that's a little too subtle for me to get. Um, what IS it?

[lordlundar]

Okay, maybe that's a little too subtle for me to get. Um, what IS it?

A homicidal maniac.

At least there's an effort put in.

[MadMike]

A homicidal maniac.

More specifically, one that fought viciously to get away from a cop who they were handcuffed to. Although a nice touch would be having a fake severed hand in the other cuff.

[Nox]

a nice touch would be having a fake severed hand in the other cuff.

Now THERE'S an idea. Maybe one that has teeth marks and bites taken out of it...

[Imogene]

The only Halloween I lived through at college (game design, my year.5 happened to exist on both ends of a Halloween, so, there was only one during my time there) the girls from the... massage therapy classes (whom we game designers had a running volleyball challenge with) went dressed as us. And won for the contest.

[tangrid]

Y'all reminded me of one more costume I dearly loved, though I don't know if you could really call it a costume.

A guy in a wheelchair was dressed completely normally, but had a stuffed rooster in his lap.

Naturally everyone kept complimenting him on what a nice, big cock he had. It was hilarious.

And if I could figure out how to post the picture from my hard drive to here, I would. Anyone have any suggestions? And no, I don't have a webpage, a myspace account, or any external sites I could upload the picture to, either. I know. I suck. Tell me about it.

Photobucket.com is free and easy to use. I'd suggest that