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   Doctor Toon said, 27 days ago

   I’ve got both a Spider-Man and Wolverine costumes from years back.
   Haven’t decided if I want to go with one of those or something new this year.

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   SuperRobot234 said, 27 days ago

   I once went as a ghost using an old bedsheet. While I didn’t think it was that scary, it was enough to scare a few little kids!

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   ♠Lonewolf♠ said, 27 days ago

   I had fun as a child as a trick or treater on Halloween. Thankfully, we get the kids at our house on Halloween. I guess some parents other than myself still remember happy childhood days!

   Oh yeah, the cost of costumes. Good thing we design our own!

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   Macushlalondra said, 26 days ago

   I don’t blame Adam’s mom. Has anyone seen the cost of bed sheets these days? It might cost nearly that $70 they want for the Spiderman costume.

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   bald 716 said, 26 days ago

   when i was about 11 a neighbor kid and i went out on hallowween, we hit up a lot of stores and several taverns, the drunks at the bar put their bar change in our bags, we made out pretty good back that night. one pizza place even gave us each a slice of pizza.

   we both were made up to look like hobo’s

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   TrapperJohn said, 26 days ago

   Where in the world is she looking? I just checked WalMart’s web, and their costumes are going for $10-$20.

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   cleokaya said, 26 days ago

   Doc - I think that you should go as Nuclear Coffee Man. A giant coffee cup with radioactive steam wafting out of it.

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   Doctor Toon said, 26 days ago

   cleo naked corpsakaya - I wouldn’t want to SCARE people

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   cleokaya said, 26 days ago

   Doctor StrangeToon - LOL

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    Joe Allen Doty said, 26 days ago

    The last time I went to a Hallowe’en costume party, I just wore my Western duds. My boots matched the leather vest with fringes. That was in 1986.

    The costume party I went to before that was at German version of Mardi Gras. It was called a “Fasching Party.” This was in the early 1970s and I still had my US Army fatigue uniform. Karen, the executive secretary of the place where I worked decided to have the party for some of the employees at her house. Well, she was my aunt by marriage and so it was at Mom’s brother’s house.

    So, I went as G.I. Joe. The reason that Karen wanted that kind of party was that one of the employees was from Germany and she was inspired to give it. The woman had become a US Citizen. I don’t remember the costumes of the other people; but, the German lady’s teenage daughter came as G.I. Jane. That was an interesting coincidence.

    Hallowe’en is the celebration of a pagan holiday adapted by the Roman Catholic Church to sort of “Christianize” it. It really serves no purpose and I am glad that the USA has not made it a federal holiday.

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    Susan001 said, 26 days ago

    I remember seeing ads for Halloween costumes in the Montgomery Ward catalogue when I was a kid. There was Superman and the Lone Ranger–and they didn’t cost $70!
    Sometimes, kids wore them to school on Halloween Day, and they’d have a party in the afternoon.

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    fritzoid said, 26 days ago

    The last time I went to a Hallo’w’e’e’n costume party I just wore my business duds. My tie matched the pattern lining the inside of my jacket. This was in April of 2004. Most H’a’lloww’e’n’ parties are held at the end of October, but I didn’t want to lend legitimacy to a useless pagan holiday, so I did it early. Or late, depending on how you look at it.

    The party was being held in my place of business, and was thrown by the woman I was working for who was actually my mother’s sister’s brother-in-law, who came dressed as my father. This was a real coincidence, because this woman was in fact my father.

    When I got to the party, I don’t remember what anybody else was wearing, except that they were all wearing business suits, just like me. This was a real coincidence as well, because it was a business day in a business. This was in 1838.

    There weren’t any refreshments at this H’a’l’l’o’w’ee’n party, because the holiday is pagan and serves no purpose and we didn’t want to do anything which might give the federal government the idea to recognize it.

    We played some fun party games, though, like “Sign the Contracts” and “Add Up All the Numbers in the Ledger.” This was in 2762.

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    dante.deangelo said, 26 days ago

    I laughed out loud at the comic today. But I’m scratching my chin on your comment fritzoid.

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    fritzoid said, 26 days ago

    It’s surreal.

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    Ushindi said, 26 days ago

    Excellent, fritzoid, most excellent - ROFLMAO…..You did JAD almost as well as JAD does, and he’s had a lot more practice! Without a doubt, you deserve a 10 out of 10 AND the gold medal for JADism.

    Truly, a classic in the annals of commenting.

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    big G 3469 said, 26 days ago

    Many years ago I created my own costume based on the most infamous band in the Pac 10 (back then it was the Pac 8 ) conference the Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band using a Red sweater a white dress shirt black pants a wig & a bucket hat! Many years later I went to a halloween party dress as the same thing (even thoughI was older & BIGGER & the original costume would had fit me a little tight since I was 13 years old at the time when I had the original coustume but hey it still works improvising & using a vest instead of the sweater & wearing a wackier wig & a crazy looking hat too)!

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    Furienna said, 26 days ago

    JAD: Halloween (or at least the Saturday closest to October 31rst) actually is a public holiday here in Sweden. But except from a while around ten years ago, when there was a short fad, we don’t usually dress up like Americans do. We have a custom though, that we light candles on the graves of our deceased loved ones. But for some reason, we’ve never followed that tradition in my family. And if you go to a church, the priest will read out the names of everybody in the parish, who have passed away during the last year.