Halloween!
 

I can't believe it's already October. The last memory I have was ribbing Dave Lavery at IRI... sigh.

But... October means Halloween, one of my favorite holidays ever! Personally, I hate scary movies... but I get to dress up like a dork! and the CANDY! Who can forget the candy? (I'm a big advocate of candy.)

So, I figured... who better to tell me about their crazy Halloween costumes and adventures in the name of candy, than the kids that dress up in giant hats and wear all pink in the name of robots?

I need some suggestions for this year's costume, too.



I seem to know a team that would appreciate that one...

I found a lot of cool ones, like Snow White, Tinkerbell, and even Cruella DeVille (I think my boyfriend would say that one fits the best). Any ideas?

Oh, and what's your favorite kind of candy for Halloween? I like Bit-O-Honey. :)

/edit: I could always go in my costume from our CD Costume Party... maybe I can go as leftovers... I could go as a giant... or I could even go as Slash... or a mechanic... hrmn. :)

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Not sure if I'll be going out this year but since there is a halloween thread, this picture needs to be put in:
Guess who?
Sorry Dave :rolleyes:

-Steve Howland

P.S. Favorite Candy: Milky Way

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I seem to find the average ones interesting. I'll attach my pic of when I was 2 in an astronaut outfit. It was very annoying yet cute. *shrug*
Favorite candy: ooooh...I gotta go with the lollipops. Though I can't get enough of Milky Ways either..;-)

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Meh, I ran out of veriety on halloween. I found my ultimate evil right here :).

Original, but VERY VERY evil. My kind of taste >=)

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amanda... you can be a bunny... :P

i will pick what i want to be later on and will edit this post... :)

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Personally, I don't like halloween too much. I'm a big scardy cat.
But this is the coolest costume EVER!!!!

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What about a robot? It would be quite easy with a roll or two of aluminum foil and some flexible clothes dryer duct. Of course, if you can't think of anything else, you always have this idea to fall back on! :p


As for me I don't dress up anymore. Instead I decorate the yard differently every year for Halloween. I have 11 spotlights, several black lights, 3 fog machines, 20 some grave stones, a coffin, and numerous skeletons and other figures. This year it's mainly going to be a graveyard since I haven't done one in a few years.
Last year I did a funeral. I spent a week converting my spare car, an '87 Chevrolet Caprice Classic wagon into a hearse complete with fabric over the windows and a fake coffin in the back. I had someone offer to bring up a real hearse (I just hope it's empty! :eek: ) but I never took him up on the offer. I put my wagon back to stock since I still drive it at times but it was worth it for that one day.

As for favorite candy, anything with chocolate as long as it doesn't have nuts (I'm allergic to nuts).

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I'm going to bring back this guy:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/pi...&quiet=Verbose


Do a little work to him...try to find a better wig and maybe some leather gloves to hide my hands. Maybe ill vary the outfit a bit...we'll see

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A few years ago, one of my friends tried to be a giant raisin for Halloween. She wore a garbage bag, and at every house, whoever was giving out candy would ask her what she was. I don't think I'm going to dress up, but if I did I would probably be some kind of food object, maybe a sandwich.

I, too, don't like scary movies either. They're too...scary for me. :(

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I think I'm gonna try this or some kind of dark, mysterious monk robe.

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I used to enjoy Halloween a lot, but then I worked in a party store last October (need I say more?). Having to deal with customers who can't understand that some costumes are already sold out by the week before Halloween :eek: and leave piles of costume pieces and packages in the dressing rooms, and having managers breathing down my neck to push the costume accessories, not to mention hearing "Thriller" every 5 minutes (a good song, which is now also ruined for me), killed most of my Halloween spirit.
But there are rumors of a showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show here on campus this Halloween (with the audience participation), which could very well rekindle my spirit.

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i think last year i dressed up in a vampire mask, a hawian tshirt, a hawian hat thing and shorts. ther was one little kid who said "Mommy can i touch the monster?"

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I'm hoping to be a happy Bills fans watching the Bills slap around the Cardinals at the Ralph on Halloween.

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Well, last year, i was the Stay Puft Marshmellow from Ghostbuster. It was pretty insane, people were staring at me the whole day, and my teachers couldnt get over it. Ill try to get a picture up if i can find one.

I still cant think of what im going to be this year, b/c i gotta upstage that. One of my friends and i were thinking of being Luigi and Mario. We also have people set up to be a Koopa Troopa, Toad, Daisy, and Peach. So that might be pretty good.

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OK, so I started working at the Haunted Graveyard this weekend, and I am a house manager for two houses.

I wear an all grey costume and wear a glow in the dark wolf face costume which looks great in the pitch black cave..

I will be working on Halloween, and the day before (btw) Oct 30th I will be turning 25. :cool:

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Working at a toy store, I hear at least 3 times a day 'You look a lot like harry potter, did you know that?'.

Although I don't really care for the books, I've decided to give in. This year, I am going as Harry Potter... in 10 years.

I figure everyone loves him now, but whats he giong to be like 30 years from now when he's washed up and no one really remembers who he is? Everyone will find out this Halloween; Poorly shaven, tattered robe, big bottle of butter beer in a bag, sick owl and who knows what else. Should be fun.

Plus it's an excuse to not shave for a few days so I can build up some nice stubble.

-Andy A.

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I havent' quite decided what my costume will be yet. It's going to partially depend on what the theme of the party is this year (last year was an Edgar Allan Poe theme). But two ideas I've been thinking about are just buying a whole bunch of spiders (not real ones) from the craft store and sewing them all over my clothing and going as a random victim from a cheesy horror movie or sewing a bunch of odd socks to my clothes and going as the Thing That Lives In the Washer And Steals Your Socks, otherwise called a Sock Monster.

Heidi

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I'll have to send you a pic of one of the props from the Haunted Graveyard that I work at. It's of a spider victim. A body completely wrapped in spider webs and spiders crawling all over it. It would actually be a cool costume, and if you do make one, let me know the details on how you did it. We may incorporate that into a costume for an actor in that house next year.

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A Domo-Kun
find one here (the brown looking twinkie with the mouth)
If you can find a Domo-Kun costume and don't want to use it, PLZ ship it to me!!! :)

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It is a sunday. I think for this Halloween, I am going to throw a football party.

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man, halloween is the best!!! i love it!!! stinks its on a sunday though, we will be out all night than have to get up in the morning, we should have mon. off

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Mmmm halloween. What can I say?

My current costume possibilities:
Fire Elemental
Eris (Goddess of Chaos)
Oompa Loompa
DDR Freak
iPod
Wasted gypsy

Candy: Kitkat and Crunch Bars. Definitly the best.

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I think I'm going as a disaffected college student.

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I want to see a FIRST participant go trick or treating as Dean Kamen. :)

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oh come now i am suprised nobody has said they want to dress like JVN :rolleyes:

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Well, for the past two years, I was The Hurricane (a wrestler who's gimmick is a superhero, the pic is somewhere on here (heck, it was my whoami pic for over a year) but I'm too lazy to look for it right now). This year, I have that as a backup (conveniently themed with my little sister being my sidekick and my little brother being the Super Hero in Training; please note that they are both 9 & 10 years younger than me respectively). But my working plan this year is to be Angelus (you know, Angel without the soul and with the ponytail). My little brother even agreed to be William the Bloody (Spike) if I could find a way to get the game-face thing going (the bumpy vampire face which Buffy/Angel fans would be familiar with). So it should be interesting either way.

It should also be noted that I really love Halloween. :D Oh, and I love Resee's Peanut Butter Cups (the regular ones; I absolutely abhor the inside-out ones).

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Last year I dressed up as Fireman Ed (Jets fan who is the one who starts the J-E-T-S chants at the game). This Halloween I'm going to be rocking out at the Taking Back Sunday/Fallout Boy concert.

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Last year I was a 'hostess' (i got paid to hand out candy and greet people at the door) at some rich lady's party and I dressed like a NY GIANT, Tiki Barber to be exact. I'm thinking that this year I'm gonna dress like a cowgirl if i get hired again.

And my favorite candy is reeses peanut butter cups :cool:

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Me and my non-robotics friends are going as random celebrities and I was designated as Avril Lavigne...because I'm so punk and all :confused: ah well i guess its better than the last idea, which was the spice girls, and i was supposed to be scary spice :ahh: haha

favorite candy = reese's fastbreaks

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My school has uniforms.. Needless to say, I'm going as a student, in duct tape

Duct tape skirt, duct tape blazer, duct tape polo.. Should I try for the duct tape socks? :)

Candy = Milky Ways and Mike-and-Ikes

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negative for the duct tape socks
trust me they don't work out well ;)
but how about going as a ddr pad?
just go and buy a cheap one, cut some holes in it and walk around
for more of a laugh make your friend wear a box that looks like a ps2 and plug yourself into it.

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Many, many years ago my extended family and I used to put on an haunted house. I remember the giant spider costume on the wall (my son's head) while the unsuspecting visitor was sitting in the arm chair. Just as the spider finished his story the arms of the armchair grab the visitor to scare them badly.

Tonite our family and some robotics' members are going to Knott's VIP banquet and Knott's Scary Farm. It's become a tradition for us .

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I love Halloween. Last year I was a box, that was my best one yet. This year, my friends and I are going to go for some kind of theme, which we still have to figure out. I'll try to post pics when I can.

Favorite Candy: Candy Corns

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Although I'm in grade 11, some of my friends are going trick or treating this year and they have convinced me to go with them. They all want to dress up as food items, so I am going to be a bunch of grapes. This should be interesting :rolleyes:

favorite candy: milky ways, caramels, and now and laters

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I went trick or treating till I was 19 - Just turned 19 the day before Halloween - and I only got asked my age once and thus denied candy. :cool:

Now I work for a Haunted House in CT, so that takes up my Halloween night and every weekend night in October for that matter, except for the weekend I go to Salem, MA for the Halloween Happenings up there.

Favorite candy - Anything "fun sized" And I don't mean these tiny candy bars. Fun size is the whole candy bar. Who came up with the name fun size for these bite sized pieces of candy? That's not fun. :ahh: Downing a whole 2" x 6" candy bar. Now that's fun!!! :yikes:

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I was thinking about one of the guys from Mythbusters so I have an excuse to blow stuff up, but in the end I'll probably stay home and run the fog/music system at my house.

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Annual trip to Knott's Scary Farm with family and robotics' members, yeh, I'm thrilled about the ride.

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my friends are gonna be black-bloc anarchist activists and im gonna be the capitalist in the suit that they beat up. Fun Fun Fun

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My fave candy is Twix. But I haven't gone trick or treating in years. If I was going out I would pick something fun like a care bear or something.

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So.. What did you all dress up as on Halloween?

I was working, but went to an after party at Denny's and dressed as a clown, and made a lot of people almost cry.

Why are people afraid of clowns?

Crazy.

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I dressed up as my friend Jamie (JamizzleHavok13 on here). I wore the bondage pants, the shirt to go with, my hair down, and contacts. =D I did look like her, people said. w00t to that!

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I was so mentioned! <3 :D
Anyhow, I was Robert Smith (from the Cure) in a psycho ward. It gave me a reason to apply loads of make up and tease my hair. :cool: