September 13, 2006

• How about the 7 deadly sins and the one person contemplating them all?
• Henry VIII's wives and daughters? The four kings and four queens from a deck of cards? You could all wear the exact same costume, makeup, and head covering - freak all your friends out trying to tell you apart! Maybe eight different but equally horrible bridesmaid getups? If you divided the Indian subcontinent from Asia, you could each dress as a representative of a different continent. Or the obvious - VEGAS SHOWGIRLS, BABY!
• My department at work is considering going as cereal characters. If you're from the US and grew up on sugary cereals, you can go as Count Chocula, Dig 'Em, the Trix Rabbit, etc. Or the kids from Eight is Enough.
• Hhhhmmmmmmm, something to do with the planets? And you could drag poor Pluto behind you on the ground?
• There are 8 pieces on the back row of a chessboard. There are "8" planets in the solar system. You could dress as planets protesting pluto's expulsion. ooohhh I like this one There are 8 immortals/chinese dieties I cheated I just hit wikipedia up for "eight"
• I should add that any coustume that would be expensive to create is out. We are college students.
• Pride, Envy, Greed, Sloth, Lust, Wrath, Gluttony and Double-Parking?
• Pride, Envy, Greed, Sloth, Lust, Wrath, Gluttony and Goatse.cx Pride, Envy, Greed, Sloth, Lust, Wrath, Gluttony and Ninja Pride, Envy, Greed, Sloth, Lust, Wrath, Gluttony and overused internet meme. How about everyone is an internet meme
• Islander wins!
• Oh, man, Seven Deadly Sins... there you go!
• Hairy Krishnas: Wear bedsheets and beards and bang tambourines singing songs from the musical "Hair"...
• Here's another idea (if it's geeky enough) -- Windows, Mac, Linux, Solaris, Star Trek The Next Generation OS, Vax VMS, Commodore 64, and Patch Cord (ENIAC). You could probably do something similar with languages.
• The best Halloween costume I ever saw was an online friend's boyfriend who went as a Sim. Wear normal clothes and attach a green plumbob to your head.
• Everyone dresses like a dead Kennedy (not the band the family), with the costume reflecting the manner in which he died!
• Like characters out of a Shakepeare play. Like characters from a Gilbert and Sullivan production. Like characters from TLOTR. Ensemble of the MoFiddled: a bee-dog, a baby panda, la-belle-dame-who-shall-light-up-the-captain's-life, the Werzog in his infamous Loud Pajamas, a fairy godmother, Zorro, a luminous green pig.
• ...and Monkeybashi, of course!
• Damn, we ought to have our own party!
• I think the winner has already been suggested, but I went as The Wicker Man once - Beach mat tabard, waste basket helmet, astroturf shoes, and dictaphone with loop of Edward Woodward yelling hung round my neck. beeswacky, the eight of them would need to combine to form the Werzog. Like Voltron.
• Suggested themesong for the Eightfold Werzog: I am Voltron! fear me!
• My favorite cheap costume of all time: Take a piece of cardboard and draw a capital P on it. Hang this around your neck. Now put black makeup around one eye. You become... a black-eyed pea. Or this: Or the obvious - VEGAS SHOWGIRLS, BABY! Which I cannot recommend heartily enough.
• Some girlfriends and I went to a costume party dressed as the boy band N*Sync. We all wore several name tags, with the other group members' names crossed out (as if even *we* couldn't tell ourselves apart). We went so far as to choreograph a dance routine to one of their songs (dorky? Yes, but great fun, especially after a beer or two, and someone even threw their bra at us), and had one of our group's husbands come out dressed as Janet Jackson and get his top torn off by our "Justin." Since you have eight people, maybe you could have half of you dress as N*Sync, and half dress as another boy band, and then at the party you could "rumble."
• pix plz kthanxbye
• of the showgirls! I meant pix of the showgirls!
• Oh, I forgot to say that these costumes were all really cheap! We just wore baggy pants and some loudly colored top with clunky shoes, and spiked our hair up. If you don't own the clothes, you can find them easily at the thrift store. One girl had to buy a wig to cover up her long hair, but that only set her back about $10.
• Oh, um, and you'll maybe want ace bandages to squish down the boobies. I'll shut up now!
• If you could get another girl, costumes for the nine Muses would be pretty cheap.
• MonkeyFilter: you'll maybe want ace bandages to squish down the boobies.
• Please don't squish the boobies!
• Squished boobies turn me onmake me cry.
• 8 college women? What about famous alums from the Seven Sister colleges, plus yours? You'd each have an individual costume, but only the really sharp would clue into the fact that you're all together. Or you coulf just go as the colleges themselves. There's that too.
• no one plays Lisa Simpson and the rest play the seven sister colleges. Link
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• Go as Muses or Greek goddesses - it's cheap, since all you need are sheets and accessories, like, I don't know, a pomegranite or a helmet or something. No one can ID seven sister colleges unless they went to one or went to a school close to one. I know, I went to Bryn Mawr. /and I have not 'explored' with a Smithie.
• The Wiggles and their evil twins from the parallel universe in STOS Ep. 39. 2 each brightly colored long-sleeve tees: Yellow, Red, Purple, Blue. Evil twins use eyebrow pencil to draw on goatees and arched eyebrows. Fight all night, singing alternately kids songs and Bad Religion tunes. It's GOLD.
• a rugby union pack.
• From the Not-Too-Hard-To-Put-Together Dept.: a) The Gumbies (my likely costume; or, b) The Quinlan Quints. You're welcome.
• Vegas showgirls is a very likely option, though it might be a little chilly for northern VT in October. Muses would be awesome, though after a few beers I think we'd just be toga girls. Both are getting added to the shortlist.
• Go as sexy nuns. All you need is a little black dress, some strappy heels, and a black piece of material draped over a white headscarf. Throw in your Jeebus beads, and you're set! Sintastic!
• It's a Catholic college...that might be just the ticket.
• Sintastic that is so my new phrase-o-praise for all I find cool* *nunia, what's yr percentage?
• Did you say nuns or nouns?
• Medusa, I work for IOUs only, to be cashed at a future inconvenient date.
• Wendell, I said whatever you wanted me to say.
• oooh! naughty nouns running amok on all hallow's eve!!
• Naughty nouns need love...too.
• I *heart* this thread.
• I've started work on this year's costume. I'm doing the view pictured in red, but in a dark yellow. I'm adding the drawers from this pattern. (October can be windy in New York.)
• Hey, TUM, that reminds me of the time I had a group of friends dress up as Amish whores at a whores 'n' pimps show. Their finale was they took off their bonnets. Me, I'm going as a Zombie Jesus this year, but I apparently need an alternate as we're handing out candy at my partner's parents' house and they just won't stand for it.
• Just tell 'em you're Zombie John Lennon.
• I'm going to rent the bottom half of a two-person horse outfit this year and just go as myself like all those creative people do.
• I'm adding the drawers from this pattern. Why, Miss Vickie, I hope them redlegs don't sully your impeachable virtue.
• I remember a year or two back when the funny tasteless costume was to dress as Roy from Siefried and Row with a stuffed white tiger strapped to his head. I'm sure something similar will make the rounds this year, infolfing a khaki outfit, wild-eyed stare, and a rubber stingray duct-taped to the sternum. (I just hope my patent comes through in time. Ka-ching, mate!)
• "infolfing": it's Austrailian for "having to do with."
• Austr-al-ian? I thought it sounded kind of Austrian. Klink! If I find out you're infolfed in ziss, it's off to se Russian Front!
• People, please. We're 55 comments into this, and no one has suggested the obvious. Be a byte. Go as eight bits. T-shirts with a zero or a one are all you need. Well, perhaps pants, if it is formal.
• TUM, I was trying to represent dialectical pronuncification thru spelling. Obvimously.
• Higher up at the top of the thread, I was thinking "How about the 7 deadly sins PLUS a religious figure?" My first suggestion would be the Virgin Mary, my second would be a monk or nun, my third would be "God" - but a very Michelangelo god with a toga and a big beard. Or a lamb (of god, who takes away the sins of the world). The fact that this is a Catholic college makes this idea even better. And more likely to get you all put on probation.
• One of the golf foursomes at the tournament I recently volunteered at was made up of a Methodist minister, a Catholic priest, a Baptist pastor, and a layman. Their team name was "Three Hole-y Men and a Sinner."
• Verdict has been reached: my roommates may or may not join, and I have no idea how I'm going to make the costume, but I want to be a mermaid.
• You can probably get some ideas from checking out the pictures of the Coney Island Mermaid Parade.
• Simplicity Mermaid pattern
• Mermaid parade!! I had no idea...and I was already set to go ;)
• Clamulicious!
• Come out of your shell!
• Believe those are scallop shells, Monster. How worldly are these nuns? Maybe ye could go as the Buddha's Eightfold path.
• Those are PECTIN shells! From now on, all seashell questions should be directed to my office.
• SCALLOPSHELL Was not ex-pectin to find a whole gallery of the things.
• That's a sweet site, bees!
• Oooh, Pretty! Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll. Leave thy low-vaulted past. Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from Heaven with a dome more vast 'Til thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!
• Dress and bloomers finished. Need hat, apron. Buttonholes suck. Black/orange M&M cookies in oven. Pronouns, articles missing.
• Read buttholes suck. Did double take. Thought, naw, buttholes good. [NSFW]
• I'm going to a party tomorrow night dressed as Rosemary (from Rosemary's Baby, natch), the only pregnant Halloween costume I could think of.
• Is it just me or have you been pregnant for, like, ever? *eyes meredithea suspiciously*
• Don't just terrorize. Plagiarize.
• On the spur-o-the moment I have decided to attend belly dancing class tonight as a DANCE PIRATE. Hammered brass bra from here, this leather corset (will be removed before class starts), coin belt and some baggy trousers. Yeahhhh.
• Wow, PA, that's expensive stuff. Arr.
• Pictures, people! WHERE ARE THE PICTURES?!?!?!???
• You could make a pretty penny dancin' in that down on the docks, Pallas! Ahoy! My getup was a hit at the staff do over lunchtime. I didn't get any prizes, but there was a round of applause when I flashed my bloomers. People who were at the back of the room kept asking me to do it again because they hadn;t been able to see. Most of them then said something like, "Oh. I thought there would be something funny on them." (I was too ladylike to make the obvious joke about there being something funny IN them.) No pix yet, but I'll share 'em when I get 'em.
• I am the only person in my office in a costume. They're grinches! Or whatever the halloween version of grinches is. Halloween ain't what it used to be.
• Pictures of my finished costume, and the one I made for my cousin's little girl.
• Finally, I have seen the underpants! Wasn't what I expected, tho. Kinda frilly, doncha think? Very nice costume, BTW.
• I SOOOOOOOOOOOO must have that furry cat basket!!! hubster & I just spent 2 hours doling out cavities to the little neighbors...
• Cute costumes!
• Nice work, TUM! But do you have to be such a hussy? I can see your pantaloons! The shame!
• Ooo! *adds Monster's picture to his Special Collection*
• Ooo! *adds Monster's picture to his Special Collection*
• Okay I figured out something last night and wanted to run it up the ol' banana tree. For the last several days pretty much every channel on cable TV has run nothing but "scary" themed specialty shows. Everything from "Top 100 scariest movie moments" on several channels to "horrifying cookies" or something on the food network. The result to the average channel surfer (or at least me) has been a detestable cavalcade of gore, screaming, and general unhappiness across the spectrum. I call bullshit, demand a retraction, blah blah blah. Now here's the genius part that ocurred to me: what is a week away? The elections - and which party benefits most from a fearful population? Mmm hmm. Yeeaah. Oh c'mon, you know it. Karl Rove is lovin the gore, baby . . . um, albeit ironically.
• *Karl Rove is lovin the gore, baby . . . um, albeit ironically* *facepalm* The Monster underpants are UNDER the frilly ones.
• I feel like I *have* been pregnant forever, 'bashi. I'm not due until Dec. 20! Mourning the loss of ankles, cute clothes...
• meredithea, you'll be up to yr eyeballs in cute clothes soon enough, they just won't be for you!!
• I am loving the cute duckie-covered outfits. Why can't grownups wear duckies?
• I got the CUTEST onesie [sic] for a friend's baby shower. little cartoon chevaliers riding against the most adorable little green dragons. and my friend is a massive fantasy novel geek so she went bonkers for it :D
• *adds Monster's picture to his Special Collection* posted by beeswacky at 09:03AM UTC on November 01, 2006 Oh, the injustice of it all! The rakes and combs of black beelegs to us must e'er be foreign A camera lens shall not record his black and gold striped sporran His glossy eyes, two huge, three simple might well be cloaked beneath a wimple and yet he gloats on these bee-boards o'er monkey pics he slyly hoards.
• I didn't know Bees is into Victorian porn.
• Shhhh! tick, else I'll bee getting deluged with pantaloon pictures, when it is actually poet pictures I lust after after. And that poem's worth at least )))
• *hunts around fruitlessly for glasses Did Bees really write that he lusts after GOAT pictures?
• No. He didn't. He had a 'friend' who did that for him.
• Just one more reason Martha Stewart is a sick bitch!
• white meat please!
• OK, this year I'm working on this. It's pretty ambitious, and it could very well be a disaster of Underpantsian proportions. I'll post pix either way.
• Ah the ol' pumpkin-smuggler eh? Bueno!
• Ballsy.
• Heehee, I finished the punkin-smuggler sleeves last night. I had to stand back and shield my eyes from my own awesomeness. I'll post pix when the whole thing's finished.
• ohhhhh, can't wait!!! How did I miss this... MonkeyFilter: it could very well be a disaster of Underpantsian proportions
• Iowa sucks!
• Moscow sucks!
• "This is destructive for the minds and the spiritual and moral health of pupils," said Gavrilov. He should run for office over here.
• He's not undead, just unsober.
• Pumpkin Smuggler's 401 Union Card Picture
• He's not undead, just unsober. "I ATE'NT DEAD" --Granny Weatherwax
• Timely "ugly teeth" recall. Trick or treat!!
• *squints* The dress looks great! I think! Couldja not have stood in the light?
• Yes! A head on pic, please.
• Koko has a point (despite the smelly hoodie). Worst TUM picture. Ever.
• San Francisco cancels Halloween. Sort of.
• OK, grumblers. More detail here.
• P.S. I won first place for "Scary" at the company do over lunchtime. I got a free peck of apples out of the deal. And I totally want those guys pictured in Nick's link to be singing the opening chorus of Iolanthe.
• Show us some ankle, baby!
• Halloween candy industry tampers with the very fabric of time itself. (nice costume TUM. I'm sorry that you don't own a head to go along with it.)
• I didn't want to get ahead of myself.
• You'd have thought they could've waited one more day for the Ugly Teeth recall. Probably there are tons of people whose costumes revolve around ugly teeth, and it's too late to get new.
• “The candy makers were so desperate for this that besides lobbying for years, they went and put pumpkins filled with candy on the seat of every senator in America,” Mr. Downing said. (Senate floor security was not quite so tight in the 1980’s). Damn, I wish someone had taken a picture of that. Teh cute! Not that there's anything that unusual about the seats of the Senate being occupied by punkinheads.
• San Francisco cancels Halloween. They've been threatening to do that for years. When I first started going to Halloween in The Castro ('94), it was so crowded you had to link hands with your friends or get separated. At times my feet would leave the pavement. But it rarely got violent (a fistfight here or there), and everyone was always in costume. I saw some of the most incredibly elaborate costumes there, that people had clearly worked on all year. It wasn't until they opened up a street party in the Civic Center ('97 maybe) to bleed off some of the crowd that the Castro party started to turn ugly; people showing up out of costume just to get drunk and gay bash. The Civic Center party was terrible ... no character to it at all, and just more rowdy drunks. /rambling
• Oooooooooooooh, well done, Tumster! So everybody post pics of their costumes, please! I don't have one--did not do the Halloween Endurance Ride this year. Sorry
• I had a pretty good one, but my wife wore it to work and then left it there >:(
• I'm a hallo-weenie this year, no costume, no parties :P If I could sew like TUM, and if I had a lotta free time, and if I had any energy... boo humbug!
• I am sad. I have what I think is pneumonia. I went to work, sans costume (first time in years), and my coworkers are so afraid I'm contagious, they wouldn't even let me near the food table. I had to bring wrapped candy for the dish to pass, so I didn't germ up anything. And now halloween's over for another year, and I didn't do a damned thing but come home and go to bed. And there was a haunted house in a MASONIC TEMPLE I wanted to go to! Damn.
• *sends Lara virtual hot water bottle and nice cuppa tea* I just got a phone call that I won another contest I went to yesterday.
• I had teenage shits at the door who weren't in costume.
• Oh, Capt. don't be so negative. They were shits, disguised as teenagers. I hope you gave them some candy to get them hyper and punish their parents for letting them out of the cages.
• I gave them candy, GranMa because there weren't any parental units around, I feared an egging.
• I got drunk and gave out candy. There were only 12 kids. I guess word got around
• We had exactly two children come to the door, both about 3 years old, and, although they came separately, both were dressed as Elmo.
• TP's Costumery. Now everyone knows what I look like. OH NOES!
• My heavens, TP. Whot a nasty sunburn! But such a cute smile. *pinches cheek
• I always assumed you looked like lucifer, TP. I kid. Nice costume!
• Oooh, very nice, Pettle family! And the background of the shadowy tree adds a nice spooky touch.
• although they came separately, both were dressed as Elmo. They obviously came from two poor families who could each afford half the cost of an Elmo costume. The fist kid came, got his candy, then went 'round the corner and passed the suit off to his young partner. At the party I went to, there was a group dressed as the characters from Clue. They were even carrying the 6 weapons.
• Okay, the Clue idea is great. Wish I'd thought of that. Well, I guess now I'm going to have to have three more kids, if we're going to do this. *pokes hbs*
• Why not just go with The Three Bears?
• Hey, if you start in a-breedin' now, you'll have enough by next year to be the 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse! A Baby Pestilence costume would be teh cute.
• My baby is already one big goddamn pestilence vector right now, thanks very much (baby's first cold, and it's a nasty one).
• Awwwww, baby's first runny nose. Has isms gotta widdle snuffy-wuffy noseses? *AAAAAACHHEOOOOO Little snotbucket.
• Hollow's Eve Warning- Super scary.
• He is indeed pitiful. Goddamn Kryptonite.
• That was horrifying, Nick! Baby Jack is already so handsome!
• 2.75 year old skeleton 0.75 year old Friesian.
• Holy cute kids! Is there some rule that monkeys must produce Quality Offspring?
• I almost bought Mr. Whiskers a chicken costume, but then I thought how nice it would be to not have my fingers bitten off.
• Somebody's been at the candy. *shakes finger I lubs me some cow squeeeeeee.
• Like OP ladyknight, I have accomplices this year!!! For the university-wide contest (see last year's prizewinner!) me and two of my mates are going to dress up and sing a three-part arrangement of the "Grim Grinning Ghosts" song from Disney's Haunted Mansion. I'm trying to talk the girls into these saloon girl costumes. I'm one of those people who needs to tell other people about big projects, to increase the chances of actually following through.
• My first pumpkin ripened today, Halloween is getting closer!
• punkin pix pls
• summer's almost over... NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
• Bought myself a ceinture fléchée on Saturday, passing through the French River area. With Mom's Hudson Bay coat, I have the makings of an excellent coureur-des-bois / fur-trader costume. All I need is a little beaver. Shuddup.
• Captain, I don't see you as the fur-trader type.
• This is everything I know about Canadian fur traders. (youtube)
• Teehee!
• French River area Cheap Canuck knock-off resort?
• The French Riverwas the main fur-trader highway, going from Lake Nipissing to Georgian Bay. Also, it was used by the Jesuits going to Sainte Marie, as well as having Brûlé, Radisson and Champlain pass through. It's a real head-turner of a landscape when you're barrelling down Highway 69 from Sudbury. There's a little picnic area where you can stop and collect your wits halfway through that Death Race, where they've just installed a gorgeous new visitors' centre. It was there where I bought the ceinture from a nice Ojibway (Ojibwayan?) lady. You won't pass your citizenship test at this rate, young lady.
• Bit more on the new building here. Before, it was just a collection of bronze plaques and a couple of outhouses.
• The river itself has some great fast-water and white-water runs for canoeists (and I suppose for those pain-in-the-ass kayakers). Historically, it was the only way into the upper lakes without portaging or paddling up Niagara Falls.
• /insert Mr. Canoehead joke
• Part of the new exhibit was a bit on 'fast-water archaeology' -- something I'd never given much thought to, but was pretty faskinatin'.
• Mom and Dad went to the French Riverarea and all I got was this lovely azure coat! Is it on the Métis-terranean Sea? and so forth ...
• As requested, proof of Autumn's encroach.
• Boo! Hiss!! Yay?! Nice punkin...
• Oooooooh, she's a fine pumprikin!!
• You picked it already?? Why? Ooooooooo! Lovely. Rotund. Orange. I wants! *drools saliva at thought of punkin pie*
• Because it was orange, and I assumed that meant "pick me!" I'm new to this whole pumpkin farmer thing.
• She's a good size for a pie punkin. You wants' em smaller for cookin'.
• If anybody's got advice re: squash bugs, I'd be happy to hear it.
• I just thought you'd wait till it was a bit bigger... Just kidding. You have a perfect punkin. She's a real beaut!
• Also a great size for falsies.
• If anybody's got advice re: squash bugs, I'd be happy to hear it. Pointy shoes.
• My integrated pest management friends recommend getting a chicken or guinea fowl, who both like to eat squash bugs. I saw this in practice at a school garden, and the birdies seemed quite happy.
• And guinea fowl's good eatin'.
• We tried the whole chicken-in-garden thing. Fine if you like pecked tomatoes, no strawberries, etc. Our chickens enjoyed the variety of different food groups rather than confining themselves to just the bugs. You can pick squash bugs, but they get ahead pretty fast. If you have the time to turn over all the leaves, you can spritz the yellow eggs with alcohol from a sprayer, and that will slow 'em. If you catch them early enough, you can mix dish soap and water for an organic spray. Diatomacious earth or boric acid can slow them down. I hate doing it, but if they get ahead of me, I sprinkle a bit of Sevin down. Last but not least, over-plant with squash, eat squash till it comes out your ears, get sick of squash, transplant bugs from your neighbor's garden so the damn squash dies.
• I definitely find the chicken advice appealing. I don't particularly want to grow "soft" veggies like tomatoes and certainly no strawberries. Squash is pretty hardy so I'd think they'd leave it alone, and corn grows to high, so some future season I might try fowling up my garden. I've been hand picking bugs and smashing them with rocks, which is momentarily cathartic, but seemingly ineffective in the long run. I didn't really know what I was looking for (this is my first gardening experience ever) until I had a pretty good infestation of late-stage nymphs and a few adults going on on one of my plants, so I think it may be too late for diatomacious earth, and with a baby and two curious dogs I definitely want to leave Sevin for the pros. I have several others mounds of vines that don't seem to be affected yet, though I'm keeping my eyes open. As my pumpkin vine turns yellow and the leaves crinkle up I'm wondering if it might just be too late. If it is, would a scorched earth policy (pull out all the vines in that plant and kill every bug that I see) be appropriate? My wife thinks that would just convince the squash buts to go after my other pumpkins that much faster, whereas keeping the weakened, non-producing plant around might present a more tempting bait and convince the little bastards to leave my heartier plants alone. That's obviously insane, right?
• It's a hypothesis, I guess. I pull any weaklings up as I feel they just attract more bugs. YMMV
• I've also heard that planting purpple basil, marigods, or nasturtiums among the squash plants beeps the buggers away. Of course, that's not much of a help to you at this point in the season, only for next time. And that was in Three Sisters* gardens, too. *a traditional Native American style of companion planting, with squash, corn, and beans planted in the same hill.
• If the marigods can't help you, nothing else can.
• I have a 3 sisters garden going in addition to two stand alone pumpkin mounds. The 3 sisters pumpkins (I also have summer and crookneck squash) are still very young, and the current targets of my increased vigilance. I find your "Merry Gods" most intriguing. How may I best worship them? Blood sacrifice? (please say blood sacrifice please say blood sacrifice)
• I meant to say "Marine Gods." I'm a worshipper of Poseidon and the Nereids. Basically, it's a lot of sitting around with your feet in a bucket of saltwater.
• Semper Fi, bug assassins.
• Processed the pumpkin last night. Pumpkin polenta for dinner, pumpkin bread for dessert. Delicious.
• I just got back from the coffee shop, where there was a pair of customers dressed as Sarah Palin and a moose.
• Monkeyfilter: Basically, it's a lot of sitting around with your feet in a bucket of saltwater.
• We took first place at the company do. The MC's were dressed as Sarah Palin and Tina Fey. We sang a three-part arrangement of "Grim, Grinning Ghosts," which went over very well. Pix here. (I'm the fat one.)
• Oh, hush.
• Great costumes.
• Spooktacular!
• Added more pix.
• They were having a wine tasting at the local liquor store, so I went in in costume and said, "Trick or treat for wine!" They were tickled and I had a nice local Riesling.
• That would never work for me. I bet you were in period underwear, weren't you? I'd give you a bottle of wine if you turned up in period underwear.
• Sorry, that was quite uncalled for.
• I hereby ban myself for the month of November.
• Sadly, no. I did make myself a period corset but it turned out crap so I didn't wear it.
• yes, Pleg, go write a novel about repentance and period underwear, you bad boy!!! so TUM were you wearing bloomers?? knickers??? corset??? vintage undie-fetishists want to know!
• Well, we were wearing pocket hoops.
• Hope you're kidding Pleg - dinna leave, laddie!