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[Berserker]

I would love to but the simple fact is I aint got the body

Anyone else ever gone as the cimmerian warrior?

[grim cimmerian]

Halloween and October tend to be very cold here in the Rockies so a bare skinned barbarian wouldn't fare well as a trick or treater or even just running from the car to the adult party. I did dress as a gimli like dwarf for a halloween party last year, I wore a mask, a moutain lion skin, belt and sandals. I had a big axe and a warhammer. I froze my ass. it was cold. people remarked that I was Conan, a barbarian, a caveman and about half guessed that I was going for a dwarf. I have attempted the incredible hulk for halloween as well (another near nude costume idea) and was miserable that year too. I wouldn't say that I have a Conanesque (in my mind) physique either, but you just have to go for it man! Have fun with your Conan costume idea anyways.

[matsellah]

Do private parties with just the wife count?

[Kortoso]

Long ago, I went to a party as Retsyn of the Certs.

[Valin]

No. I don't dress up in a costume for Halloween.

[PainBrush]

WHAT ?!? & Celebrate a pagan holiday ?!? I bet you'd all celebrate the Yule too ?? hahaha

[budgie]

WHAT ?!? & Celebrate a pagan holiday ?!? I bet you'd all celebrate the Yule too ?? hahaha

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Actually I do.. thats celebrating pagan "holidays" (thats a terrible word to use) not dressing up for fancy dress.. your Christian god doesnt work for me but each to thier own.. believe in what you believe..

saying that though I did go to a Star Trek convention in a TNG uniform once.. yep, Im also a sad scifi geek too

Budgie

[PainBrush]

Way back in the eighties this girl I was trying to get to know from high-school talked me into dressing up & meeting her at a halloween party . Of course I wore the furry inner lining of my Brooks biker-leather jacket as a fur-vest , a horned helmet , my knee-high black suede cherokee moccasins , an atrocious loin-cloth that kept almost coming loose from my belt which also had to hold up my sword-scabbard & wine-skin full of beer . Walking on the way to the party (I was drinking & so not driving) I was stopped by a Hamtramck police squad-car & nearly arrested for the very real & very sharp broadsword & battle-axe I was swaggering around with . I got the cops laughing & lightened up by matter-of-factly telling them " they ain't 'concealed' weapons ! " -They let me go but made me empty my wineskin (I was under-age to be drinking) -they said they were letting me go without a hassle only because I had enough sense to not be driving . Hamtramck being a small town they knew me & warned me with a laugh , but if anybody got stabbed or beheaded that night I was gonna get a royal a**kicking !!

[Freebooter]

Hey y'all,
I have some repro Roman sandals, a knee length linen tunic, a big belt and a Viking sword, helmet and spear (all from MRL). Last year for halloween I dressed up in it and sat there outside my front door giving out candy (cooler of barbarian lager artfully hidden of course). Now I am 6'1" and weigh about 330lbs and here I was sitting out there having fun, showing kids and families my weapons, Viking/barbarian stuff, etc.., which some loved mind you, and my wife walks out. I grinned as I eyed her from my "specticaled" helm, thinking I was looking every inch the warrior, and said, "Hey baby!" She laughed and said, "My, this halloween. You are supposed to be scary to these kids! But then again I reckon you are scary looking in your own way. You look like a fat homosexual barbarian in a dress or in drag!" She went inside and I cracked another beer and thought about it all and realized I did not give two hoots in h--l!
Take care y'all,
Freebooter
Millbrook, Al.
Author of "MORE GHOSTS AND EERIE TALES OF ALABAMA; True Tales of the Supernatural and the Unexplained!"

[matsellah]

She laughed and said, "My, this halloween. You are supposed to be scary to these kids! But then again I reckon you are scary looking in your own way. You look like a fat homosexual barbarian in a dress or in drag!"

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She's seen one before?

[Freebooter]

She's seen one before?

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I don't know if she has seen one exactly like that before, but with the prevalence of it in today's world, and all the nonsense you see on TV and movies, I am sure she has a good idea of it.
Freebooter

[PainBrush]

Hey y'all,
I have some repro Roman sandals, a knee length linen tunic, a big belt and a Viking sword, helmet and spear (all from MRL). Last year for halloween I dressed up in it and sat there outside my front door giving out candy (cooler of barbarian lager artfully hidden of course). Now I am 6'1" and weigh about 330lbs and here I was sitting out there having fun, showing kids and families my weapons, Viking/barbarian stuff, etc.., which some loved mind you, and my wife walks out. I grinned as I eyed her from my "specticaled" helm, thinking I was looking every inch the warrior, and said, "Hey baby!" She laughed and said, "My, this halloween. You are supposed to be scary to these kids! But then again I reckon you are scary looking in your own way. You look like a fat homosexual barbarian in a dress or in drag!" She went inside and I cracked another beer and thought about it all and realized I did not give two hoots in h--l!

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That's hilarious stuff , good thing you didn't down too many beers & go up & down your street yourself trick-or-treating people at sword-point . haha

[PainBrush]

Haha , I just remembed something funny from when I was a kid . I was probably 11 or 12 , my brother 10 & our next-door neighbors (two brothers same ages as us) - we were the terrors of the neighborhood & as fearless & invincible as only a spaz teenage kid could be . To be in our 'gang' you had to climb on every single garage peak down the alley & moon the houses they belonged to while all the kids yelled at the top of their lungs(I think we were nuts!) Like a bunch of young vikings demanding & expecting to get our danegeld , we held the block for ransom/extortion for like a week & a half after Halloween . We kept right on trick-or-treating well into November without even bothering to dress back up in our Halloween costumes (I was Gene Simmons of course) . Just banging on peoples doors yelling 'trick-or-treat?" , as I said we were the terrors of the neighborhood so they new we 'meant' it . Hahaha , you had to be there , the wide-eyed looks of astonishment & 'okay hang on a minute ..be right back" - then , a lot of candy or pocket-change hahaha . They didn't want any part of our arsenal of mischief , super-gluing car-door locks , stuffing potatoes in car exhaust pipes for a bang , putting a few spoonfuls of motor-oil across car windshield wipers , egging houses or t.p.ing their trees , knocking down every full garbage can down the alley , shaving pet dogs or giving them 'mohawks' ,-or duct-taping them like doggy-mummies , ringing doorbells & hiding & giggling when we lit a bag of poo on fire on their porches , that one 'never' did work , not once ! Not one single stomp . Never stopped us from trying at least a dozen times thru the years . or my personal favorite , about 8 of us neighborhood kids picked up & carried/dragged from the street-curb onto the guys front-lawn his little car , I think they were called m.g. midgets ? Then we anonimously called the cops on the guy & said he drove it there drunk after swerving down the street & almost running us over , - We would''ve probably kept right on trick-or-treating right up until Xmas if it wasn't for the parents noticing our pile of halloween candy 'never' got any smaller & actually was growing !! hahaha . Little bro. spilled the beans & we got grounded 'for life" yet once again hahaha . - Sorry , I got way off topic...

[grim cimmerian]

When I was young the goal was to maximize candy intake at halloween. we would rush out to trick or treat as soon as school let out. most would say, "it isn't even dark yet," or "aren't you early?" we would just tell them that my mother would never let us out after dark, bad guys and all in the world. they always bought it and gave us even more candy. we merrily kept at it until at least 2:00 AM if some idiot left a light on I was a knockin. That gave us around 12 hours of trick or treat. my favorite places to go were the rich neighborhoods (more generous), the malls (most candy in short time), and the people who weren't home but left a bowl out anyways (please just take one, yeah right!) We filled up pillow cases as they were more durable and held more quantity. My personal record is two and one fourth pillow cases full of candy (leaving enough room to still grip the top closed). enough to still have a mountain of candy left at the next halloween! my dad often gave out our old candy that had been picked through for the best treats all year to the trick or treaters that came to the door the following year. Nothing like dumping out your sacks of candy on the floor with your brother and dividing up your plunder. Made me feel very Conan/pirate/viking like.