Halloween 2011

[Cramulus]

What are you spags going to be for Halloween this year? (if you're dressing up)

[Cramulus]

I still haven't made up my mind.

In the running:

• A Teabagger holding up a stupid sign.
• Carl Sagan - wear a red turtleneck, a tweed jacket with leather elbow patches, and carry an apple pie.

There are two Halloween parades that run right by my house. (one of the benefits of living within spitting distance of Sleepy Hollow is that our town goes FUCKING BATSHIT for Halloween) So my roommate and I want to dress up like Statler and Waldorf, the old man hecklers from the Muppet Show, and heckle the parade.

"That woman's costume raises an interesting question..."
"Yeah -- why is she wearing it? Oooh ho ho ho ho ho"
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[Cramulus]

"I love a good parade!"
"Me too... too bad this isn't one of 'em"
Oooh ho ho ho ho ho
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sadly, the statler and waldorf masks are kind of expensive, so we'll probably just be doing some fake facial hair. Since we're just leaning out a window, all we really need are jackets.

[Cain]

The Man With No Name.

Can't be bothered to buy a costume, I just have some jeans and boots on, put my poncho and coybow hat on, and buy some fake revolvers.

[LMNO]

I won an authentic Bobby helmet in a raffle earlier this year, so I'm gonna be a post-London-riots cop, with blood spatter, gouges in my skin, torn uniform, and broken truncheon.


And I'll be in New Orleans.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

My plan was to be Red Sonja but I'm not sure I'm going to get it together in time.

[Doktor Howl]

This may be of some assistance:

http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=30129.0

[Cramulus]

This may be of some assistance:

http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=30129.0

oh yeah!

You suggested I should be Boromir. Which I could totally do!

I want to keep my fantasy costume as a backup though. Every year, if I don't have a costume ready by Halloween, I throw on my plate mail and a spaggy cloak and call it a night.

Coveting other people's possessions and trying to seize them for the survival of Humanity would be a kickass shtick.

[Kai]

I'm not dressing up, but I am planning on carving the scariest jack-o'-lanterns I can.

I've been reading up on fear and what visually stimulates it. Since I can't make a pumpkin move quickly, I have to work from stationary shapes.

In general, round, simple shapes are comforting. Sharp, complex shapes elicit fear. Jagged VVVV imitates sharp, dangerous things. Large, open mouths and narrowed eyes are fight signals.

So, I'm going to carve my pumpkins with big mouths, huge mouths, mouths that technically should end near the sides but actually curve upwards jaggedly and end near the eyes. The teeth should be many, long, curved, sharp and irregular, and tightly placed. The nose and eyes should be comparatively small to the mouth, the eyes sharply narrowed towards the center.

[Payne]

I AM GOING TO FAP.

[Luna]

I AM GOING TO FAP.

I would expect no less.

[AFK]

I'm going as your mom!

[Doktor Howl]

I am going to dress up as a hopelessly drunk dude surrounded by cheerfully doomed perverts.

[Juana]

Modified version of the George Washington Varga girl.

[AFK]

This will be my first Halloween at this job.  Last year it was on the weekend.  So I'll have to come up with something clever that also screams, "We should just stay away from that guy and leave him alone." 

Hopefully this includes the chatty intern in my office.