Help!
I am leaving for Canada in a few weeks and will be there for Halloween. I need some good ideas for a "funny" costume. Please... let your creative juices flow...
I guess I could cut the udders of those crazy cow costumes and go as...

"The Udder Woman"

What an UDDERLY fantastic idea Chickadee!!!!!

One of the best costumes I've seen was a homemade M & M. White gloves, green hose, and wire hangers shaped into a circule with leg holes and arm holes and a head hole, of course. It was awesome. I've been jealous since.

Thanks D, That is something I can make there and not have to drag in my suitcase.

I was talking to a friend when serial killer came up in the conversation.

I remember reading somewhere about little boxes of cereal hanging all over, plastic knives sticking out with fake blood etc

A "Cereal Killer"

Pam...send me one of yours

Keep 'em coming...only 12 more days til I leave

[ October 01, 2004, 01:28 AM: Message edited by: chickadee ]

Ypu people are too funny and I'm jealous because I couldn't think of anything as good. Tried but no dice....brain dead I think.

Oh I love the Cereal killer costume idea! I might use that one sometime...LOL
I can't think of any funny ones, I usually go for the old classics, witch, ghost, vampire, frankenstein, grim reaper.

Chatty...Dice...what a great idea...I can see it now...

A large box (one for each person)with dots, 1 dot 2 dots 3 dots and arm holes, leg holes ,head holes...you get my drift? lets see now oh yeah and two people...

We could go as "Paradise" get it... a pair of dice ...(hic)

Gotta stay of the Vino me thinks it's affectwbfrjybt...affectwjodgrr...screwing up me speeeeech.

TVC15... what do ya think about this easssy one? Cut out the letter P. small ones big ones, etc from black paper. pin them on a white bedsheet,with hole for head. give yourself a BIG black eye with some grease makeup and go as...what else...A BLACK EYED PEA.

Ok, stick a knife in me,I'm done. Aaarrkk...fork, I mean fork!

How can we start a post like this somewhere else in the forum as it is in the wrong category, maybe?

And I still want more funny costume ideas. Dian, M and M is a great one. keep em coming!

I love the cereal killer one. I was thinking of easy ones. We've gone as truckers (flannel shirt, john deeer hat) geeks (jack up the pants, put tape around your glasses, but I can't think of anything else.

Hey, for fun, go to this link and check out this guy's costume. What a hoot!

http://www.drizzle.com/~earlb/costume/02hbcg.html

JJ

Jaw Jaw...That's it!
That's the one I didn't know I was looking for!
Thanks for posting the site so I could find it right away.
I can't wait to get started.

I think!

Love the guy's costume. I usually go to a Halloween party every year. Last year I was unprepared and had to go as a witch. This year I plan to have my daughter paint my face like one of the cats in the musical CATS. One year a couple came as a brick (the wife) and a brick layer (the husband). That was interesting.
And I just remembered a couple who came as a horse. She the front and he the back rushed off to the justice of the peace still in costume and got married. What a hoot. They're still married.
The year a major bank here fell sending the whole southwest into a terrible economic depression, I went as a 'Penn Square bank check--worthless.'
Once a guy came in a flest colored trashbag that looked like a condom and a sign that said "Safe Sex."

My daughter is the Halloween costume queen. She's already in a frenzy of costume making now. She makes elaborate costumes for her kids every year. Last year the youngest boy was The hunchback of Notre Dame with a costume similar to the one in the photo with legs coming out of it like he was much smaller. And she did the cereal killer one year too. Only I think she did a big cereal box with legs coming out and blood and a spoon and big mouth or something.
When the youngest boy came along, she dressed the oldest as an elaborate satin Aladdin and the baby as Abu-the monkey. This year the baby who is four months old will be a witch (boring by Becky's standards). She will have purple hair, purple and green striped legs and green arms. Not sure what the boys will be, but they are exploring a lot of options.

Chickadee, Halloween is so much fun. You'll have a blast.
smile

Loved the guy in the cage. Very clever. You have to do this one, and send pictures!

Some great ideas too smiles! Halloween is like Christmas without all the work - Exciting. Thanks for the great ideas

I have already been out and picked up the material for the one JJ sent. I read the post and scooted outta here.

I will have to do the cage in Canada.I may modify it to 2 different characters though. Something like Grim reaper and I'll be a half rotting skeleton. Glow in the dark bones from Walmart.(feet) hands etc. Maybe a glow in the dark skeleton face etc.Oooh my mind is overloading...

Yes Dian I will get some pics. I love Halloween and haven't dressed up since leaving Canada. One of my favorites and a WInner - Change of life baby!

I had an old wrinkled woman(mask) with a tiny newborn baby on her back.

She was bent over and baby(me)was dressed in a real sleeper set.( stuffed feet.)
I was looking in the opposite direction. I used "my arms and head" complete with sippy cup and bonnet.

Her arms were around me holding me on her back.I had to walk backwards all night(feet covered by long black full skirt) but I had a blast.
My friend dressed as an old man.

We were quite the couple.

Oh I wish I had those pics now....hard to explain costume without them.

But my friends all saw this one already...

Oh I am excited. Can't wait...

Thanks again and keep 'em coming.

Chickadee, Your excitement is showing. Sounds like you're going to have a terrific time.

Just talked to my daughter. I forgot the whole Star Wars series and the "Got Milk" costume which was one of my grandson's favorites--a big black 'sign' with a hole for his head and a white moustache with "Got Milk" on the bottom. Only problem was he got stuck in the door a couple of times. (I had the same problem when I was a bad check)

Love the whole costume thing. Like you said, Halloween like Christmas with less work!!
smile

Oh I'm glad you mentioned the door...good thing. I'll have to remember that...Can u imagine...All dressed up and no where to go

Candice,thanks for your great ideas too.I am writing all of them down and taking them along because I am usually the one getting people dressed up... last minute
Thanks to all you BOO...mers

Several times my husband and I have gone as the Farkles.

The first time another couple dressed along with us. We frequented the Goodwill shop in Philly and purchased lots of polyester, plaid, stripes, rollers, gaudy pendants, and fuzzy slippers.

The guys were in optometry school with all these single people. The four of us who dressed like Farkles were married.

We put our hair in rollers, hiked our pants, blacked out teeth, and the guys slicked their hair and put dandruff on their collars. At one point in the evening one of the guys had toilet paper coming out the back of his pants. It was hysterical. The guys walked around slouched all night, wiping their noses and scratching. We even danced like doofuses. We were out there with hunched shoulders and funky hair, crooked lipstick and no makeup, dancing right along with the Playboy Bunnies, sexy cats with hardly a stitch on, and muscle men. It was a hoot. When people talked to us we even spoke like Farkles HON...you know!

The four of us won first place. We had a half page, color photo in the yearbook.

Ross and I have dressed like this twice since, but nothing will ever beat the time in optometry school.

We still vacation with this other couple. Every now and then Ross and I consider meeting them at some airport dressed in full Farkle fashion. Once when we visited their home we considered having our kids dress the part too for our arrival, but they wouldn't go along with it.

We have a gold framed picture in our living room of Ross and I in Farkle fashion from one of the parties. People see the frame and pick it up. I think some have thought it was a picture of our relatives. They're not sure who it is.

Now I'm not saying this to hurt any feelings. This is true. When we were the original Farkles in Philly, a couple guys from North Carolina came up to us and told us we looked like their relatives!

Have fun on Halloween!

HEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now I'm offended!

Not!

I live in North Carolina but my heart is still in New York and by the way, since I've lived here I think I've met a couple of those guys relatives! I hear that when I go to the State Fair next week I'm going to meet a lot more of them!
LOL

Dotsie, I forgot all about the Farkles! They were really funny, great costume idea!

Dotsie, that is hilarious. I am almost tempted to get off that plane...Farkle style. My best friend is picking me up at the airport...after my 15 hr flight(with stopovers, of course) I'd be farkled. Ohhh...She would faint!

One of the funniest costumes I have ever seen was a guy dressed as Bill Clinton. His wife was dressed as a cigar! Complete with smoke coming out of the top of her head. I know that is not very timely right now, but it makes me laugh to think of them! It was a hoot!

Mrsmuzz, I don't think Bill Clinton or anything about him will ever not be timely. He's like a bad penny and keeps popping up everywhere.

Dots,
You have GOT to meet them at the airport dressed as the Farkles. That would be perfect, just perfect!!! It would be one of those things where it could turn into "who is going to be outfarkled" like those goofy gifts that get passed back and forth over and over again. Man, what I would give to see you guys dressed as Farkles waiting at the airport.
Once a friend and I went to a mystery/murder dinner dressed in period 1920's costume. Then afterwards we went to the movies and stood in line like that. Oh my gosh! The reactions we got. No one asked us about our costumes (they were pretty authentic...no fringy flapper dresses) but they were all saying things to each other and we could overhear there comments. They felt so sorry for our lack of style and our wierdness. I heard one of them say something about my shoes which were actually from the twenties. It was pretty funny. (Oh and we won the prize for solving the mystery)
La

I know I dated many a farkle...

Okay, I'm lying...I don't even know what a farkle is. Now I know I'm gonna get it from all sides, but I ain't lying here!!!!!

A farkle is?

JJ

JJ...A farkle is:

An unintentinal release of gas during a hardy chuckle!

Actually JJ I hadn't heard of it before either.I'm from Canada aye. Anyway I researched all of the internet....No luck. I re- read Dotsies post and figured it was a Nerd type and when TVC replied I thought they were Nerd Types from Philly and...maybe N Carolina...? I wasn't quite sure on that one.

Ok ladies that makes me and JJ. Anyone else?

"You learn something new every day don't ya"

The Farkles are from a comedy skit from a television show from way back when I was young. Unfortunately, I don't remember the name of the program. I think they were on weekly but I don't think it was their own show. They were nerdy and very funny. They all had red hair (wigs) girls in pig tails and dressed well, hillbilly nerdy!

Weren't they on Saturday Night Live? I can not remember.

Or was that just the coneheads?

was Peewee Herman a farkle? Or just an idiot?

JJ

Herman was the idiot that grabbed his peewee in the theatre, got caught and destroyed his career...You were part right, hehehe!!!

Well my friend Pat and I decided what our costumes will be for the big halloween party out this way. We are going as the "before and after" of Anna Nicole Smiths huge weight loss. Everything exactly the same except before shes a fatty, that'd be me and then a glamour girl, that'd be Pat...Ho hum!

One year my cousin went as Mimi that fat woman on The Drew Carrie Show? I hated to tell her, but she looked just like her!

JJ

The Farkle's were nerds. I don't like categorizing people, but they were.

Chatty, tell us about the party you're going to.

We're having some friends here for dinner on the 30th., but it's not a dress up gathering. Maybe I should change that. This topic is getting me excited for Halloween.

Hmmm, where are those Farkle clothes?

nuuuu problem-o Dots...wanna borrow some of mine?

JJ