Should be a no (or better still, SPLATTERED) brainer.
Muffy,
Halloween with no costumes is like worrying whether Superman will survive till the end of the movie: why bother? Of course, I've never met Jerry, but if he's got genuine butcher's gear, all the Zombie Chef's gonna need is to be hosed with some fake blood. If you can smear some black makeup around his eyes and shove in some rotten teeth, so much the better. Those meat hooks of his, hung with body parts on 'em, would be the finishing touch. Take ya 15 minutes from start to finish.
Joe won't need much work. Get him in his cowboy outift, blacken those eyes, grunge up those teeth, then slip a hangman's noose over his head. There's your Z.B.f.H.
As for you - heck you're aleady a member of this forum, so you don't need anybody to tell you how to dress up for Halloween!
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Mark McG. It seemed like a good idea at the time.
Believe me MM I know.......I fight with these guys every year about dressing up. Two years ago I even bought them both costumes but because Joe gave me such a hard time.......ya know what they say, birds of a feather stick together so Jerry wouldn't wear his costume.
All you haunters on this forum .....ya got any suggestions for the Muffster on how I can get these guys to understand how important it is to dress up when we have all these people coming thru the house?
My family dressed up as the Wizard Of Oz. I was the Tin Man my X-Wife was the Wicked Witch Of the West, my three girls was Dorthy, the Lion, and the Scarecrow. We won tickets to a local haunt and a 25.00 gift card.
S.Screams might have hit on a solution, Muf' - try bribery. That or bacon...guys love bacon. As a last resort, right before the Trick-or-Treaters arrive, you could use Terry-Thomas' answer to the problems he faced in Munsters Go Home (1966): "Bash them on the head, with something jagged!"
Not only would that make Jerry and Joe see the light, they'd be all set to go for the party...
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I almost forgot, I have won 2 costume contests. My first was when I was in the fourth grade, my school had a Halloween carnival and costume contest. The theme was Storybook characters. My mom made me a Little Bo Peep costume and my dad turned my bike into a sheep, I came in second place. The second was a contest at work. I dressed up in a long black negligee with a matching robe, my makeup was a slit throat. Sort of a deadly honeymoon type thing. I won first place for that one. I think it was the black negligee that won me that one. I also won two decorating contests when I was working. The first was for Halloween, I attached black streamers to thin dowels to make walls and hung them above the empty cubical next to mine. I decorated the cubicle with spider webs and dressed up a skeleton and put him in the chair at the computer. I rigged a piece of fishing line to the chair so I could make the chair turn around when someone looked into the cubey. I also dressed a dressmakers dummy with a black robe and put a grim reaper mask over a red balloon. There were ghosts made out of thin plastic packing foam sheets, various bats, spiders and black cats. The second was for Christmas. I decorated each cubey to represent different parts of Santa's workshop. There was the lights shop, bakery, ornaments, candy, wrapping paper, etc. The tops of the cubey walls were covered in cotton batting snow and the end of each set of cubies had brick corrigated paper.
I used to go for the win, all the time. Alot of time the simplest things win. I helped my daughters win 1st 400.00, with a stretch limo. with a Honey moon couple in the back seat. The limo was made out of cardboard, and the driver was one daughter and the honeymoon couple, was the other daughter and she actually mooned the groom out the back window(fake dummy). They used stretch fabric in the middle for the stretch. It was cute.
Should be a no (or better still, SPLATTERED) brainer.
Bribes, bacon, & battery.
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