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So, my annual pilgrimage to the Crescent City is nearing and one of my fellow revelers asked me if I was going to costume. She's going all out. I'm blank of ideas that I could achieve within my time/cost parameters. I'm not even sure if anyone out there other than Aberzombie that even knows what I'm talking about.
Two cheapest costumes ever:
1. Ghost- White sheet, eyeholes, maybe even a creepy mouth if you want to get fancy. Just be really careful you aren't mistaken for a Klansmen. Those white supremacists aren't known for their amazing cognitive powers.
2. This one is worth a lot of points because, technically, you're actually wearing TWO costumes. Where a blue office shirt, brown pants and black shoes. If you're balding like me and have a vague "I don't know where I am, but it makes me happy" look on your face (also like me) even better. Then, just get a sack of Idaho potatoes and tape it to your shirt. Suddenly, you're not Daigle: you're Ralph Wiggum dressed as Idaho. It's such a conceptual costume, most people will never get it and you can have the satisfaction of looking down on their clearly inferior intellect. If you practice your voice before the event, even better. "I'm Idaho!"
Remember: caring about stuff is for dorks. All the cool kids can spare neither the time, attention or money to make an elaborate costume.
Two cheapest costumes ever:
1. Ghost- White sheet, eyeholes, maybe even a creepy mouth if you want to get fancy. Just be really careful you aren't mistaken for a Klansmen. Those white supremacists aren't known for their amazing cognitive powers.
2. This one is worth a lot of points because, technically, you're actually wearing TWO costumes. Where a blue office shirt, brown pants and black shoes. If you're balding like me and have a vague "I don't know where I am, but it makes me happy" look on your face (also like me) even better. Then, just get a sack of Idaho potatoes and tape it to your shirt. Suddenly, you're not Daigle: you're Ralph Wiggum dressed as Idaho. It's such a conceptual costume, most people will never get it and you can have the satisfaction of looking down on their clearly inferior intellect. If you practice your voice before the event, even better. "I'm Idaho!"
Remember: caring about stuff is for dorks. All the cool kids can spare neither the time, attention or money to make an elaborate costume.
Oh dear god. Wrong form of "wear". Art school is making me stupid!!
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Back in the day, my oldest brother and a group of his friends did what I think was one of the best group costumes ever - each person wore a white sheet toga, then they each had a different theme: one sheet was full of holes (holy sheet), another person wore bull horns (bull sheet), and so on and so forth. There was also one person in the group who just wore regular clothes (no sheet).
Corny, but sometimes that is what its all about.
As for myself, I most often dressed up as a drunken white guy!
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As for myself, I most often dressed up as a drunken white guy!
So you wore a sheet with a huge face on it....Sheet Faced!! HHaaaahaaaheeeeeeheeee, oh gods am I funny or what!! Sheet faced, get it? Bwahhhahahhaahhhhaaaaa. oh.
Anyway, good idea with the sheets. Hope it didn't seem like I should have one on my head.
FH
See, "sheet-faced" "bull sheet" and "no sheet" are actually clever improvised costume ideas. But if you flip through a real costume catalogue in a store around halloween, you will find the pun-free equivalent of those costumes. Such as, "No 'sheet' Sherlock" and "Crock of 'sheet'". The costume companies did America a great service by making these: it becomes so much easier to spot the idiots on Halloween. Rather than having to guess,"Are they idiots or just dressed as idiots?", one can look at the turd costume with various accessories and conclusively know that that person should be forcibly evacuated from the gene pool.
But the sheet idea is a pretty good one for broke party goers such as myself. Much obliged.
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Great new Mardi Gras story:
My chick got a new cook book for Christmas that had a recipe for King Cake, which, for those who don't know, is kinda the offical snack of Mardi Gras. Its like coffee cake, with cinnamon icing and purple, green, and gold sugar. Somewhere in the cake is usually a plastic baby, and whoever gets it has good luck or something for the next year.
Anyway, the chick made her first King Cake this Saturday for me to bring to my gameing session on Sunday. We didn't have a baby to put in the cake, so I put in a D&D mini instead. Kinda dorky, but I figured what the hell...
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Great new Mardi Gras story:
My chick got a new cook book for Christmas that had a recipe for King Cake, which, for those who don't know, is kinda the offical snack of Mardi Gras. Its like coffee cake, with cinnamon icing and purple, green, and gold sugar. Somewhere in the cake is usually a plastic baby, and whoever gets it has good luck or something for the next year.
Anyway, the chick made her first King Cake this Saturday for me to bring to my gameing session on Sunday. We didn't have a baby to put in the cake, so I put in a D&D mini instead. Kinda dorky, but I figured what the hell...
Just warn folks, so they don't get a broke toof.
I got one at work the other day, storebought, and the baby was on the outside because us non-Easy folk choke on the thing, I reckon
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Great new Mardi Gras story:
My chick got a new cook book for Christmas that had a recipe for King Cake, which, for those who don't know, is kinda the offical snack of Mardi Gras. Its like coffee cake, with cinnamon icing and purple, green, and gold sugar. Somewhere in the cake is usually a plastic baby, and whoever gets it has good luck or something for the next year.
Anyway, the chick made her first King Cake this Saturday for me to bring to my gameing session on Sunday. We didn't have a baby to put in the cake, so I put in a D&D mini instead. Kinda dorky, but I figured what the hell...
What mini was it? You should have used the werewolf. It reminds me of the time Heathy jumped out of a cake and sang "Happy Birthday, Mr. President."
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Director of Narrative
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Great new Mardi Gras story:
My chick got a new cook book for Christmas that had a recipe for King Cake, which, for those who don't know, is kinda the offical snack of Mardi Gras. Its like coffee cake, with cinnamon icing and purple, green, and gold sugar. Somewhere in the cake is usually a plastic baby, and whoever gets it has good luck or something for the next year.
Anyway, the chick made her first King Cake this Saturday for me to bring to my gameing session on Sunday. We didn't have a baby to put in the cake, so I put in a D&D mini instead. Kinda dorky, but I figured what the hell...
Hey Aberzombie, I was thinking of you when I was there so I told the city that you said. "Hi." I even told some strangers that, but all I got in return was either dumb looks or a chemically altered, "Oh, thank you!"
