Trick or Treat '07
Friday, October 5th, 2007According to wikipedia (with You Tube now blocked at work, it’s my new favorite way to kill time learning about how Snickers got its name, random Genesis trivia, and the Cookie Crisp jingle evolution):
“Trick or Treat, also known as guising, and the practice of dressing up in costumes and begging door to door for treats on holidays goes back to the Middle Ages. The earliest reference to ritual begging on Halloween in English-speaking America occurs in 1915, with another isolated reference in Chicago in 1920. Since then, trick-or-treating has spread from the western United States eastward, stalled only by sugar rationing that began in April 1942 during World War II and did not end until June 1947.”
So, without any tricks, here are some treats! Get your hot glue guns and duct tape ready because here are my 2007 costume ideas (which was way more fun than working on slide animation and embedded media files for a dumb PowerPoint presentation). Cheers!
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Fashion Victim: wear dress over jeans, tucked into knee-high boots (or just wear CROCS!)—convert sunglasses into black bar over eyes
- Freudian Slip: tape pieces of paper to slip with “Freud” written on them
- A Brickhouse: (see pic)
- Lindsay Blohan: bottle of “water,” ankle bracelet, and white powder on face and nose–have a friend go as your “drinking buddy,” er, mother
- Studfinder: (see pic)
- Dick in the Box Guy: I know you know what I’m talking about
- Abe Froemen: the Sausage King of Chicago
- Lumberg: as in “Yeah….I’m gonna need you to come in on Saturday…..”
- The Burger King: I think you can even get a mask from the corporate site
- Tim Gunn: great way to meet chicks…and come to think of it, dicks too!
- One Night Stand: (see pic)
- Scooby Doo Gang: sigh, I still have yet to live out a lifelong dream of being Daphne
- The Golden Girls: especially awesome if you’re a bunch of guys
- Cereal Characters: Trix Rabbit, Count Chocula, Lucky the Leprechaun, Tony the Tiger, Toucan Sam…
And finally….something of such sheer genius I had to save it for last….
A SHRUTEBUCK! In Shrute we trust.
I think this year we’re going for as the characters from “Clue”… but my vote is for Scooby Doo every year! Sigh.
When I was in high school and The Scooby Doo movie came out, four of my friends went and dressed up as the characters and went to see the movie. They walked in, and the theatre paid them to come back the following saturday and sunday to stand around and greet kids coming to see it.
plus, since halloween is really just a reason for women to dress slutty, how can there be a slutty Velma. The word Jinkeys just ends any chance of sexiness.