We have a mini contest for the last days of October. If you are dressing up for Halloween, why not dress in your best skeptical attire, (be it your favorite scientist, podcaster, actor, writer etc)? We want you to post a picture in the comments to show off your bad self. Elyse and I will post all the entries on November 2 and the winner will get a big bag of delicious candy. You, the reader, will decide the winner.
Mmmm, big bag o’candy!
Cool, I’ll go and start it off with a first time post and my costume I JUST finished. This year I’ll be going as everyones favorite optical illusion Paraedolia!
http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p260/shayes666/Paraetoastidolia.jpg
That is fanTAStic, Shayes666!
I don’t know how you did it, but I’m really jealous.
I already dress as my favorite scientist daily.
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@Im a Hedge: LOL. Me too! Years ago I was in the pub with a colleague who’d gone straight from the lab to the pub and was complimented on his ‘mad scientist’ costume all night long.
My only consession to Halloween is that I’ll drink even more Wychwood’s Hobgoblin http://www.hobgoblinbeer.com/ on friday than I otherwise would have
@Shayes666:
That’s excellent. You should use one of those photos as your avatar.
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I wish I could say I was dressing up as a skeptic, but sadly… that didn’t even occur to me. I’m going out as David Lynch.
I tend to agree with Sam (or was it HPB?) that Halloween is all about the spooky. So while a scientist would be clever, unless it’s a ZOMBIE scientist, I think it’s not in the spirit of the season!
That said, I’m “Neo” this Halloween.
I had no say in the matter. Wife’s choice.
I’m going trick-or-treating with my kids. They’re clone-troopers and I’m a Jedi. I’ve also got a big pile of candy to give out. I’ve stocked up on regular-size Butterfinger, Reese’s, M&Ms, plus some king-size Snickers. None of that cheesy “fun size” stuff. Whoever decided that size is “fun” must’ve had some serious size issues.
No, no… trust me. It’s “Fun Size”. It will be fun, you’ll see.
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Yeah, the last time I got a fun size candy bar all I could think while eating it was, “Wow, I am having so much god damned fun right now I can hardly stand it.”
Though actually, all of that thought after the word “wow” was thought after eating the candy bar since it didn’t last very long.
I dress as a technical writer. Every day. :-( Not fun, but it pays the mortgage.
I’ll be on our porch tomorrow night handing out bags of pretzels and Goldfish crackers to the kiddies. We skipped the candy this year due to Chinese quality control issues. Many people in my area are doing the same.
I’m going to see Zack and Miri Make a Porno.
I will be handing out candy while dressed as an accountant after a long day at the office. I will also be drinking hot spiced apple cider spiked with rum, made from scratch, and watching the wolf man, frankenstein, dracula and the creature from the black lagoon. and any other old creature feature I can get my greedy giant hands on .
@Gabrielbrawley:
Scary. I get chills just thinking about it.
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@writerdd: Good choice.
Since the weather is really nice here, I’m going to the house of one of my snobby film group friends with about 20 other people and he’s projecting two films in his backyard – ‘Evil Dead 2’ and ‘The Thing’ (the better remake from 1982).
@Im a Hedge: Hey, the halloween is all about the scary.
@TheSkepticalMale
Projecting a classic monster flick is an awesome idea… I can’t wait to take credit for that.
@Rebecca:
Wow, now I feel so much better about my “fun size” penis.
Writing poetry. See.
In my October
The leaves of king crimson
and golden
skrich scratch screech
against the trunks.
Shivers down
the spines of little ghosties and ghoulies
chasing the wolfman and monster Frankenstein
down windy sidewalks
while Lon Chaney Jr.
a good man who says his prayers at night
looks worried about full moons and wolfsbane blooms
in a garret window of a house drawn by
Charles Adams
Family is in the drawing room dancing
the monster mash with
Vampirella and Alucard while a teenage werewolf
drinks punch
mutant ninja turtles cry out for
candy threatening tricks
party ends monsters fairy princeses sleep
piles of candy dancing in their dreams
mummy tells dad she has a new costume
he cleans up crepe paper and tissue winged bats
mummy slips off to the bedroom to change
butterflies tickle dad’s spine
thinking of new
costumes
One of the McPoyles from ‘its always sunny’
look for me if you’re going to be in Athens at the (Ohio University) bazillion person block party
@Sam Ogden: I’m not sure how to tell you this, but you know how sometimes bald guys are called “Curly?”
@David Plumb: Holy god that’s awesome. Pics, please!
@Rebecca:
Damn it!
Some of your favorite ATL bloggees are going to a party dressed as logical fallacies. Masala_Skeptic, krelnik, MetalOperaHulk, and myself, anyway. Cleon is coming, but not in costume since DHL didn’t deliver his red herring head.
@QuestionAuthority:
Yes, I too know the technical writing costume. You strap on some authentic carpal tunnel and get those special pants that gradually bond to your chair. :(
@Gabrielbrawley: That settles it then … I will dress like a lawyer.
I went as the Large Hadron Collider for a Halloween party last Saturday, and I shamelessly swiped a lot of the details from NotReallyAlice’s joke on a previous Skepchick post: http://skepchick.org/blog/?p=2914
Here’s the pictures of my getup:
http://planettom.livejournal.com/235156.html
Note the black hole forming on the back of the costume.
It turns out I’m actually going for a CAT scan for a kidney stone today. I think I should win for the scary category.
I used to wear the tech writer costume regularly, but now I only don it for special occasions.
I’ll definitely send some of my pics to you tomorrow. :D
Check out my costume!
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I went as the Elf Who Murdered Santa. Yes, I was the destroyer of children’s dreams everywhere.
I hope that link works. I’m a complete computard.
Our Logical Fallacy costumes are here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cluckingbell/sets/72157608621824047/