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I need help
Fill yer boots...

Halloween party tonight. No idea what to wear. My brilliant scheme to cover myself in loads of empty Quorn packets and say I'm the vegetarian Lady Gaga has been undone by my total failure to collect empty Quorn packets since I had the idea this morning.

Ideas please
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:00, 149 replies, latest was 15 years ago)
I think you shoul

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:01, Reply)
Have you been struck off work yet again with the old Oh Woe Is Mes? Gutted, you pathetic manchild,

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:34, Reply)
You've left it a bit late
use a bedsheet as a toga and go as Julias Ceasar
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:05, Reply)
Too cold

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:16, Reply)
That's the beauty of the toga, you can wear a t-shirt and trousers underneath

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:17, Reply)
"the beauty of the toga"
this sounds like a film
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:21, Reply)
It sounds a bit gay

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:25, Reply)
i thought it sounded a bit porno
what does that say about each of us. hmmm.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:27, Reply)
Psychologists may say it means i'm a closet bender
but how can a 33 y/o single man who lives on his own and takes his mother to the opera be gay...
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:33, Reply)
it's ok, it's not as if you are devoted to your pets or anything

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:41, Reply)
err...yes...
I certainly didnt rush back from work yesterday to ensure my chicken was safely locked up in her coop...or rush back from my friends house to spend some time with my cat before going to bed...
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:43, Reply)
can i repeat my henpecked, pussywhipped joke?

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:05, Reply)
That's not a bad point
We've got a knackered old sleeping bag that needs chucking and I haven't shaved for three days, maybe I'll go as a homeless
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:28, Reply)
You may even earn some money on the way to the party
"gisus 50p fer cup'o'tea yer fuckin'fuck"
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:30, Reply)
I might even be able to eliminate my alcohol costs by scrounging half-empty tinnies on the way

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:35, Reply)
borrow my ralph lauren wrap
convinced them of my homelessness the other night
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:32, Reply)
late?
I usually just root through costumes and make something a couple of hours before
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:19, Reply)
And that's why everyone calls you "Mr. Shitty Rushed-Costume" behind your back

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:21, Reply)
Apart from the fact she's female...

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:21, Reply)
well the costume
was a strap on and a top hat
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:22, Reply)
and a moustache

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:10, Reply)
you leave him alone
you vile bully
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:22, Reply)
You tell her Swipe!

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:24, Reply)
nobody picks on my internet-husband

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:27, Reply)
Sweet

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:27, Reply)
you are too, darling

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:32, Reply)
It's all part of the insult
people can be so cruel
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:23, Reply)
*weeps*

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:10, Reply)
one of the regrets of my life
is that I have not yet attended a proper toga party
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:22, Reply)
I have been to 2
They weren't as "Animal House" as I thought they would be
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:27, Reply)
Ok now that I've ignored Baldmonkey again I can answer.
You could just zombie up with make up. If you want to go as Lady GaGa just get hold of some of that Crime Scene tape and leave little to the imagination.

I've nearly finished my costume and it's fucking ridiculous. It's a recreation of this: partywiththis.com/images/P/FlamingoRider%5B1%5D.jpg

only with a pink monster instead of a flamingo.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:06, Reply)
So it's got beyond the stage of just looking like a massive vag now?

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:07, Reply)
only just. I stuffed it last night (fnar fnar)
and sewed the neck and head on so it's not just a pink furry teardrop with a hole in the middle now.

It kind of looks like a bright pink Cookie Monster.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:17, Reply)
COOKIE MONSTER!
Aww, I really wants some cookies now.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:18, Reply)
The Crime Scene tape is a good idea
Except no-one wants me to leave little to the imagination

NO-ONE
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:29, Reply)
Go as Limahl from Kajagoogoo.

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:06, Reply)
Nah, he's too shy shy

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:07, Reply)
Hush hush

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:10, Reply)
eye to eye

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:12, Reply)
This qotw response
may provide an esoteric but effective solution to your quandary.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:06, Reply)
I'm fucked as well. Might do what I did a couple years back and just buy a fireman's outfit from Early Learning Centre and squeeze into it.

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:07, Reply)
this is disturbing

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:17, Reply)
It made my Paedometer start pinging

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:26, Reply)
Part of me thinks that your job may actually include such a thing
That part is also sad that it probably doesn't really.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:28, Reply)
I switch it off for bashes
It can get quite deafening.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:31, Reply)
And you just have to leave your rapeometer at home
It would just explode.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:33, Reply)
Go as
Ghost Rider. It's what all the cool kids are doing.

www.superherotimes.com/news/images/ghost-rider-ny.jpg
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:07, Reply)
Are you asking him to set fire to his head.
That would sort out his 'shit hair' issue, I suppose.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:28, Reply)
Just go to a shop
and buy something made already. You can go as a sexy witch. Or a pumpking.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:09, Reply)
King of the pumpkins?

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:10, Reply)
Queen of the pumpkings, maybe
Those costumes are only for girls.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:12, Reply)
I was playing on the fact that you said 'pumpkings'
Rather than pumpkins. It appears not to have really worked.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:15, Reply)
Oh, sorry
I hadn't realized. It seems wrong not to add a "g" after an "in"
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:30, Reply)
English is a ridiculous language
Just roll with it.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:32, Reply)
I was going to go as Mystique this year
or failing that, Silk Spectre. I have not been invited to any parties :(
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:09, Reply)
Is Silk Spectre the well slutty one?

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:11, Reply)
More so in the film than in the graphic novel, but yes.

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:11, Reply)
Win!
She was the best thing about the film.

The worst being that it was shit and too long and made no sense with all the giant clocks made of ice and the giant man made of magic.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:16, Reply)
It made sense if you've read the graphic novel...
I thought it was an excellent adaptation, myself.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:18, Reply)
I rather liked it as well
felt too long though, but I think I saw the uncut version first time round
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:18, Reply)
This is the trouble with adapting any kind of book as a film
you will always end up with a film that's too long for comfortable viewing if it's faithful to the book, or you end up with a film that people whine saying it's not got this or that bit in it as you have to make some cuts.

Best thing to do is adapt a badly written book but with a good concept that no-ones read.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:37, Reply)
I really enjoyed it
can understand why they changed the end too.

only trouble with it was that ozymandius was a bit of a wet gayboy in the film, whereas he was super hardcore in the book. and the smartest person in the world, which was only alluded to in the film because he said it.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:33, Reply)
Yeah, he was annoyingly limp
have you spotted the bit where Night Owl and Rorschach are hacking in to his computer and there's a folder that says 'boys'?
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:40, Reply)
Oh, yes, I remember
You can still come to my home tomorrow just to watch tv, drink and relax. It'll be only the two of us, though. I know it's not very apealing, but I have party today and I'm off to Birmingham on Sunday.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:19, Reply)
Haha, or you could come to mine on Sunday
as I live in Birmingham...
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:20, Reply)
come to my party!

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:17, Reply)
If it's this weekend
I doubt I would have time to cobble a costume together by then! I lent my sewing machine to someone :(
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:18, Reply)
Ghost

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:24, Reply)
OR
Stay at home, and tell people you were there as a ghost, and they'll think your costume was amazing.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:26, Reply)
it's moments like this
that remind me why i haven't slapped you with the IGNORE fish.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:28, Reply)
So you can steal my awesome ideas?
And sell them as your own?
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:32, Reply)
pretty much
although i am never going to implement any idea that involves "staying at home". i hate staying at home!
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:42, Reply)
One of these days
I'm going to make my working Transformer costume.

One day...
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:24, Reply)
Put on one of your dancing suits, get a tray and go as Jeeves.

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:10, Reply)
This could work
or just wear lots of black, buy a balaclava, and go as a ninja.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:11, Reply)
Or an IRA operative

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:12, Reply)
the word is "terrorist"

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:14, Reply)
Or "freedom fighter" if you're a Republican presidential candidate looking for a way to wage war against a religion you don't like but can't get away with admitting it.

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:18, Reply)
an effective ninja mask can easily be made out of a t shirt
without cutting it up
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:14, Reply)
I too have this skill.
I can also do the tshirt folding in 2 seconds thing.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:18, Reply)
Me too!
There's totally a crime-fighting trio opportunity here.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:19, Reply)
It's quite the skill
Although every time I do it, I die a little inside.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:19, Reply)
haven't done it for a while
but I can do that too :-)
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:40, Reply)
Spill food down your shirt, don't shower and go dressed as a WoW player

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:10, Reply)
haha

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:18, Reply)
This wins so far

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:22, Reply)
Put flour round the bottom of your nose
Carry a KFC and a 4 pack of beer, automatic Gazza!
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:10, Reply)
I thought you were going to say Monty

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:11, Reply)
I don't eat KFC, how dare you?

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:34, Reply)
Why the fuck not?

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:40, Reply)
His body is a temple

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:54, Reply)
Or put some flour in your hair and around your nose and go as Monty.
Just sneer a lot and you're done.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:12, Reply)
Get an empty box
from a supermarket that used to contain coca-cola cans.

Cut hole in it.

"I've come as a Cokehead"

Job done.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:11, Reply)
Sheet over the head
cut two eyeholes, and you have a ghost

/obvious
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:17, Reply)
POTD

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:33, Reply)
I do awesome zombie makeup
with latex and a little facepaint. Zombies are all the rage at the moment
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:18, Reply)
There's a zombie crawl in Birmingham this weekend
I want to go, but I don't have anything/makeup to fancy dress in.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:19, Reply)
If only it was the time of year when shops stocked such costumes and makeup

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:20, Reply)
i live near
the non-stop party shop on high st ken. it is really cool for themed parties/costumes but jesus the Q on halloween is horrendous, it goes the whole way down the street.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:22, Reply)
I'm amazed that many people
have confused the door to your bedroom with a fancy dress party shop.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:23, Reply)
They just stop off at the fancy dress shop on the way
To pick up their bread costumes. Her favourite is the part baked crusty roll.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:29, Reply)
this is a compliment
in a warped kind of way. well done.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:30, Reply)
Shush, you
I know what I meant.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:30, Reply)
There's one in Norwich too
You can come to the party I'm going to if you can make it here by 7pm

Good luck with that
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:23, Reply)

anyway, good zombie make up goes
liquid latex with a touch of white/grey paint (not much). Put on fairly roughly and wait until it is ALMOST dry.
Rub bits of it to make it look like peely skin. Wait for it to dry
Add a little red and white facepaint/make up in the gaps

Wear with ripped clothes acquired from charity shops = win
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:45, Reply)
I shall see what bits and pieces I can acquire
between now and tomorrow night.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:46, Reply)
you can get liquid latex from model shops
also The Range for some reason
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:48, Reply)
Get a bin and a stuffed cat. Go as CatBinLady
With a cardigan, big glasses and wig. And absolutely no moral judgement whatsoever.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:25, Reply)
I like this

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:31, Reply)
just turn up wearing nothing but your boxers
and say you've come as a premature ejaculation.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:28, Reply)
Awesome idea
Except for the aforementioned "too cold" and "no-one wants to see that much of my body, NO-ONE" factors
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:31, Reply)
I'm sure lots of other homosexual men would love to see your body.

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:32, Reply)
The gay stereotype you're ignoring
is that most gay men have excellent taste
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:52, Reply)
So why does Gok Wan dress like a twat?

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:55, Reply)
how to look good naked:
look comparatively worse in clothes
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:04, Reply)
Not the two French woofters I bought my flat from.

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:10, Reply)
bum.
Oh well.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:55, Reply)
I'm going to a party in November as Tom Cruise in Risky Business

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:58, Reply)
I have turned up to a number of parties dressed as Goose from Top Gun
the evidence is in my profile.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:02, Reply)
How gay.

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:09, Reply)
no, monty, I've said before
it's not actually gay unless I've got another man's cock in my mouth.

and I've destroyed all the pictures of that.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:17, Reply)
Go as a predatory homosexual ballroom dancer...

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:31, Reply)
This is my favourite suggestion by far

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:33, Reply)
Why thank you

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:34, Reply)
Go as Barrymore.
Dress in a suit and bow tie. Leave an upside down sex doll with its shorts on backwards wherever you go and deny any connection with it...
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:33, Reply)
Just carry a chairleg.
The party's not in Archway is it?

/HarryStanley-lolz
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:42, Reply)
If you have a friend who needs an idea,you could go as Moaty and Gazza
One of you takes a gun and dirty sports clothes, the other a dressing gown, chicken and lager.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:37, Reply)
I have to go to a Halloween party tomorrow.
I'm going as a 70s roadie.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:40, Reply)
Don't put yourself out

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:41, Reply)
My only concession to the theme of the event
is that I am wearing this shirt:
www.quality-report.de/tag/t-shirt/

Kind of Halloween-ish, innit?
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:50, Reply)
That is a cool t-shirt

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:51, Reply)
Great band too.
Started the US 60s garage/psych revival in the 80s almost singlehandedly.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:52, Reply)
What's happened to the "Monty Boyce Wheels of Steel Mobile Disco"?
a while back it seemed you were DJing every weekend
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:45, Reply)
I flounced due to an inability on my part to deal with the total cunt punters.

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:51, Reply)
Or in other words...
...those who don't like Gong.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:53, Reply)
Even I wouldn't play Gong in a club.
EDIT I've just remembered, I have. I am a liar.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:57, Reply)
Ever tried dropping in a bit of Hawkwind?
Surely you could get the buggers dancing to a bit of Hurry on Sundown or Silver Machine?
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:04, Reply)
Many times.
I have a 12" of 'Motorhead' which is always in the box. The 'Kings of Speed' 45 is a regular too.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:05, Reply)
Ah, good choices.
The Hawkwind version of 'Motorhead,' I presume? I do think it works a lot better than Motorhead's own reworking of that one.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:09, Reply)
Yes.
And Hawkwind have themselves done two versions, one's better than the other.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:11, Reply)
Ooh, now that I didn't know.
I may have to see if any kind soul has bunged the second version on youtube.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:13, Reply)
Which is the favoured version?
And what album was it on?
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:16, Reply)
One has Lemmy singing, the other Dave Brock.

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:16, Reply)
Oh, hang on,
I do have a second version with Brock on vocals, which I think was recorded live (it sounds a lot more rough and there's no sax or violin) - is that the one you meant, or is there a second studio cut?
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:20, Reply)
I cannot remember. I may have to double check
I recall (perhaps wrongly) that the version on my Motorhead 4-LP compilation (which has a Hawkwind version) is different from my 12".
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:31, Reply)

70s roadie roadie in his 70s.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:46, Reply)

roadie groupie.
Arrive dressed like Pamela des Barres with a mudshark* wedged in your arsehole.
*Edit - Bring a red snapper too as it is a bit vague what sort of fish was used.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:53, Reply)

I need help
Fill yer boots...

Halloween party tonight. No idea what to wear. My brilliant scheme to cover myself in loads of empty Quorn packets and say I'm the vegetarian Lady Gaga has been undone by my total failure to collect empty Quorn packets since I had the idea this morning.

Ideas please

(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:57, Reply)
I'm trying to find the picture of b3ta legend Chobb
dressed as gary glitter, but failing. It is a work of fancy dress genius.
(, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 11:57, Reply)

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