I'm 44 years old. A little old for "going as for Hallowe'en". But if work does a costume thing Friday, I'll do my Indiana Jones outfit: brown leather jacket, Fedora, tan button pocket shirt, brown dockers, hiking boots, bullwhip (don't ask, don't tell) and my WWII-style air-soft "revolver".

Hell, I'm 38. You're never too old to dress for Hallowe'en.

Dilbert

Captain Jack Sparrow. Haven't been a pirate in years.

@abgemacht - I did Dilbert years ago. The owner of the company I worked for had a Halloween birthday so there was a big party every year and everyone dressed up. Find an old striped tie and then put floral wire inside of it so you can bend it and get it to stand up like Dilbert's tie. It went over amongst the office crowd really well.

draugnar, if you go as dr. jones you must take a picture to share

@ Draug
Yeah I put a coat hangar in a tie; that seemed to work well.

It depends on the company. I don't know if they do Halloween. Last Halloween I put on my tux, slicked the hair back a bit, bought a shoulder harness for my airsoft "automatic" and went as 007, albeit a heavier set, graying Bond, but still.

The nice thing about the floral wire is it is way thinner (so doesn't stand out) and bends really easy.

The floral wire was strong enough to keep it in place?

In October 08 I wore a suit and went as a homeless investment banker, with a sign: "will make derivatives for cash, banker chicks"

Didn't do Halloween last year though

haha ava

I'm going as a father to a three year old who doesn't have the inclination to dress up ;)

Officer Bubbles.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGMTm3QRwEc&feature=related

Are the real parents going to care that you're using their kid in your costume?

I think I'll be Obama. I have a mask after all and the physique for it.

The only giveaway would my pale hands.

If I just keep them in my pockets no one will know.

I wish I could do that, but it would never go down well here (I live in Obamaland, Chicago)...only in Republican Texas would you get away with that!

Are things really so uptight there in the States?

I'm going as the Scarecrow. My oldest daughter just watched one of my personal favourite films "The Wizard Oz" for the first time and she loved it and so she's going to be Dorothy and I'm the Scarecrow and our little dog will be Toto. He's blond though so turning him grey should be a lot of fun! Any suggestions?

the BP oil spill.

Black sweatsuit and skull cap with stuffed animals, that have been painted black, glued to them.

That is really effing awesome, trip.

I know. I can't wait to see people's faces drop when I explain what I am.

@abgemacht - Yeah, I spread it throughout the tie like a fan so I could do more than just bend it, I could shape it too.

@Ebay - scare the crap out of the dog, not so bad it kills him or turns him white, but makes him prematurely grey...

I am going to be a Chilean Miner.

i'm going trick or treating a few days after halloween as a procrastinator.

I'm nerding out with my gf... I'm going as the 11th Doctor, and she's going as Amy Pond.

I'm just pro-anything that gets her into a tiny skirt, tbh.

This year I'm going as Arthur Dent from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

That is nerdy, Jack. What's your over/under on the number of people who recognize the reference.

I'm hoping if I wave the sonic around a bunch, it'll help.

Either way, we both know its going to be rare as hell.

@trip: I love it. But that's because I'm white too.
(http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/10/30/113-halloween/)

As for me: A chessboard. My wife is wearing her wedding dress and a crown (the white queen).

I shall go as Guy Sitting On The Couch Eating The Candy The Trick-Or-Treaters Are Supposed To Get And Watching Football.

A classic!

OK, so what's the best costume you ever did? Mine was a giant, 8 foot tall anthropomorphic joint. It was very popular.

Best costume ever (I've worn it twice): All black clothes, with yellow index cards attached from shirt top to pants cuff like a highway median strip. A dinner fork hung from a shoelace around my neck. "A Fork in the Road."

Observation A: I'm way cheap.
Observation B: I won seventh place (I kid you not) for Best Costume in one instance.
Observation C: I tried to wear this to a Marine embassy guard Halloween party in St. Petersburg, Russia, and the fork was confiscated at the gate as a potentially dangerous item. For the rest of the evening I was dressed as "pats of butter." This, apparently, does not impress the ladies.

Not mine, but my brother went when he was 6 or 7 as an jawa. My mom made and dad dyed a full body cloak in brown. Then he put cheesecloth (also died dark brown or black, forget which) in front of his face to hide it. Finally, he attached two yellow mini christmas tree lights right where the jawa's eyes would be and ran wire around to a battery pack under the cloak behind his back.

Draugnar, that sounds awesome. I respect parents who would risk electrocuting a 6-year-old for the sake of a great Halloween costume.

LOL! My dad was an electro-mechanical engineer at the time. He retired as an NDT engineer, so eltrcical, mechanical, ultrasonic, eddy current, all of them were in his range of expertise. I guarantee it was water resistant and safe. If I recall, he used a water prrof flashlight case for the battery holder and used the sockets with wiring from a indoor/outdoor mini-light set for the components. And I seriously doubt that a couple of C or D cells is going to electrocute anyone, even a 6 or 7 year old. Even in series, 4 of them are only 6 volts and D cells are typically 12 AmpHours.

My background is in the humanities, so out of that I got "waterproof abracadabra volts bibbity bobbity our amps go to eleven." It sounds like a terrific costume, though. Now I wanna be an oil-slick Jawa for Halloween.