Ill be doing my "Steve McQueen" look.


Or maybe even an Harry Guardino, Bobby Darin or even Bob Newhart:

No need to dress up. I'm scary enough in real life. My job will be to hand out candy to all the young ones escorted by their parents and then when the tide shifts to teen agers, the door will be closed and the lights turned off. No kids ever enter the house...the candy gets handed out on the porch.

Nope! Don't think so! A kid was just shot by police when carrying an airsoft glock. I think I'll go as Wheezer. I sound like him anyway.

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You'll need a big gnarly butcher knife to round out your ensemble...

Does a toothless old fat man with bad breath carrying a banjo count as dressing up?

I find my foil hat along with the fried eggs in zip lock bags means I have no more than one or two kids come by. It's not worth doing anything different than any other night.

Ive got one as well as a German Bayonet.

Can that Gentleman also play: Dueling Banjos?

Didn't McQueen end up as a grease spot on a German bunker at the end of that movie? Bad Karma for Halloween.

Yeah, I'm thinkin' of goin' as a gimpy Injun.

Quit dressing up for Halloween way back when.

I hardly dress up for work, why would I for a special occasion??

I don't think we will this year. We have costumes and have planned to decorate the house but there is a 90% chance of rain and we have been a little sick for a couple of days. We'll be here and ready to pass out the candy if any trick-or-treaters come by. I expect we'll be eating left over candy for a couple of weeks though.

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We like to dress up every year. We have a lot of fun with the kids and ALL the kids like to hit this house at least a couple of times. Ours is an older established neighborhood and we are all pretty well acquainted with each other.

We had quit dressing up when out kids got too big to go out any more but when the grandkids came along it got started all over again. It really is a lot of fun if you can get into it.

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I am going as an "OLD MAN" wearing an "NRA CAP".

everyone thinks I'm "ol' man time", the problem is they all ask me to take my costume off the day after

Hmmm. Never thought much about it. But, since you brought it up, I could just walk around in the buff, put a raisin in my navel, and go as a cookie.

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skip the rasin, if you're any where as old & shriveled as I am, you can go as a prune

The one time I dressed up (as an adult) for a Halloween party, I threw together a costume at the last minute. I grabbed some dungarees, a generic work shirt, engineer boots, a tool belt, and a Bell System hard hat.

I thought I was going as a lineman for the telephone. Unfortunately for me, The Village People were big at the time. Even more unfortunately for me, I had heard of them, but never, ever, seen them.

Sigh...



To this day, I'm convinced that the Mrs. didn't tell me on purpose, just for a laugh.

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So, you will be...Banjo Claus?

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He did but--im not assaulting that Machine gun Bunker--just trench fighting.

We here are also supposed to participate in the same rains your getting first. They are supposed to start here from between 1 pm to about 3 pm when the front blasts through.

Im going through a 2nd childhood myself Id go as a Confederate Soldier but--dont have any of that stuff left-but do have some of my Dads WWII gear here.

Same here. Id go as myself but--somebody else already is.

Last time I dressed up for Halloween I wore a short-sleeved white dress shirt, open at the neck, black slacks, and black shoes and socks.

I told everybody I was a motor pool sergeant in the Salvation Army.

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I went last year with some buddies and one was a Jehovahs witness. He is not supposed to participate in Halloween I guess, but he managed to sneak out and say he was going to church. So he had on his church clothing. He was going around sayin "Hi I am a Jehovah's witness and I was wondering if I could have a moment of your time". People were telling him "good one", but I kept saying the joke is on him. This year my friends wants to go to the clubs and bars but if I dress up I have a thor helmet and hammer I will use. It is nothing fancy, but I dont have a good imagination or the time to think of something to make.

I'm going as a bitter old man clinging to my guns and my religion.

Now where's my Gadsden flag?...

Probably not this year. Besides its looking like we're gonna get rained out anyway.

But back in 2011, me and my sons got a wide hair and went all out. This is my favorite family photo.

We won't be wearing costumes for Halloween, but Mrs. Chad does like to tie an orange handkerchief around our dog Belle's neck. Belle likes to see how fast she can get it off! Belle loves to greet all the kids and I'm sure it's her favorite annual event.

We'll have the porch lights on and the yard has already been de-mined. I'll do a final sweep late this afternoon. Wouldn't want Cinderella or Spiderman to step in something.

We generally have a good turnout and know most of the neighborhood kids by name. We've been here over twenty years and have watched most of them grow up. We have a couple boxes of full size candy bars for the kids we really like and a big bowl of little ones for the others. Some of the little nippers are really cute and it's fun to see them all decked out and on a sugar high! I hope the rain we're currently having eases up and doesn't put the kibosh on things.

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I am supposed to go to a halloween party with some friends and if i end up going i'll go as an evil clown. Most likely i'll be home since i have no desire to be out in rainy weather and then go to work on friday.

All clowns are evil.

I am considering going as "Adam" the first man. (I have a Fig Tree in the yard.)

On October 31, 1975 I was doing a regular walk-through of a bar in my patrol district, in uniform and on-duty. Walked in right in the middle of the costume contest and was awarded first prize ("that cop suit looks SO REAL!) of $20.00. Didn't want the public to see a uniformed cop taking money from a bar owner so I told him to set up a round with it. That round came to $34.00.

There went my lunch money for the week.

Come on Ray...That offer was bound to get you in trouble....One way or another........Village People look alike...It only cost you 14.00.....Well maybe a kiss on the check........The devil made me post this !!!

Jason on vacation. Hockey mask and a Hawaiian shirt.

Im having to hold my tongue o this one because of the mentioning of Clowns.

BOO!

Or Magnum (Thomas Sullivan Magnum) P.I. hits a new low?

Dont get me started on this but--back over 20 years ago, I knew a few friendlies who were foreign exchange students with certain beliefs in what to eat and not to eat (NOT making fun of him either) who were college students in the town I was living in at the time. I was in the midst of cooking eggs and Bacon for breakfast and the smells were wonderful. I heard a knock at the front door and went to see who it was? Lo and behold--three of the 4 I knew came over to borrow something and as each entered the house-they marveled at the wonderful aromas that were sneaking up their noses. One asked what I was cooking, and I said breakfast of meat and eggs. Well, in those days I made lots of bacon for future meals that same day (nothing like lots of bacon) and had used my last three eggs--or I would have offered them eggs.

Anyway, I knew then that their religion prohibited them from enjoying the meat--but didnt say anything. They all asked if they could try a piece as it smelled so darn good, and I was taken aback--and didnt KNOW what to say so I said: Help yourself--just leave me enough to go with the eggs. I cooked a whole package and I like my bacon fried to a crisp--but not burnt.

Well they each took three pieces and devoured them saying they loved it. I didnt have the heart to tell them they enjoyed some of my favorite brand of bacon--Roeglein (SP?). Also, this was totally unexpected and unplanned so I had no idea they would come over--want to try some of my cooking and actually enjoy it.

Im no Chef--but some of the stuff I can cook, does come out perfect--like Fajitas--but that is another story.

Anyway, I have my Dads WWII gear dug out and ready for action. Trouble is--is I cant fir into his tunic--but I CAN fit into my German Arty Majors tunic. So, ill have a WWII G.I. lid, Arty Majors tunic, G.I. cartridge belt with canteen, a Walther holster on the belt--no weapon will be in it, and the scabbard to my German bayonet attached. Ill look almost as bad as this guy: Uniform wise.

As I recall McQueen charges the bunker and throws in a satchel charge. He takes cover and the Germans throw the bomb back out. Steve makes a rush for the charge and is mortally wounded, so he grabs the charge and rolls into the gun port as the charge explodes taking out The Germans. Your costume sounds like it is what was left inside the bunker. It's perfect!

Well I hope no one rents that Muslim martyr costume that comes with the toy AK-47 and the fake body suicide bomb. While I realize it can be had for a huge discount, this might not be the best time to go about so dressed.

I went simple this year. Bought a blue piece of oak tag to hand around my neck and wrote on it "website down, try back later." I'm going as the affordable care act.

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Well, I didnt get to act like McQueen. I was invited out on the town by two neighbors-so opted to do that instead. Maybe next year???

Also, we didnt get any rain either.