Last-Minute Costumes from the Great Pun-kin

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Did you wait until the last minute to come up with a Halloween costume? NO CANDY CORN FOR YOU! Just kidding. Have all you want, and while you're at it, here are some superquick, supercorny — but also superfun — costume ideas that are sure to tickle your fellow partygoers:

• Don a simple dress (preferably retro '70s), hold a cheap bouquet of flowers and wear a dime-store princess tiara, à la Sissy Spacek in Carrie. Cover yourself with fake blood (or, real blood ... no judging here) and then grab anything wooden from your house: a small cutting board, a wooden spoon, a small log or bunch of twigs, or best if you can find it, an issue of Wood magazine. (Yes, it really exists.) When someone asks you who you are, hold your chosen object over your head and—blammo!—you’re Carrie Underwood.

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• If you’re going to the party with someone, have them find a Play-Doh image online and print it out onto an iron-on sheet. Transfer it to a plain white T-shirt and then accessorize yourself with a ton of Ace bandages, Band-Aids, whatever. Now Carrie Underwood is at the party with her friend Clay Aiken!

• Got a baby? Don’t spend a lot on a costume that he/she will only be in for a few hours. Simply take a Onesie and write “Thyme” or “Marjoram” or “Dill” across it, and your little one instantly transforms into Baby Spice. (And her next poop is sure to sell out in just 38 seconds.) Of course, if you go with “Rosemary” as your spice, the costume doubles as Rosemary’s Baby.

Anyone else obsessed with these types of punny costumes? I got hooked years ago when someone came to one of my parties dressed in a white sheet, carrying a bottle of merlot and a box of frozen White Castle. Yup. He was cleverly disguised as former secretary of defense Caspar Weinberger.

What last-minute, punny getups can you come up with? Let us hear 'em! Maybe you'll help save someone from the shame of going to a party as, well, themselves.

Comments

Wear a slip and tape the word "Freudian" to you. Now you're a Freudian slip.

I heart punny costumes. My favorite: Cover a white t-shirt with PC buttons and stickers, and add a red splotch near your heart. You're a bleeding heart liberal.

I also had a friend who just wrapped herself in blue streamers and went as "Tangled Up in Blue."

LOVE the puns! We had a costume party once, themed "Under the Sea." I wore a novelty shark hat, but my friend made a big letter C out of Styrofoam, and attached it to a baseball hat he wore. Voila, "under the C."

even though i am an adult now, i still enjoy wearing costumes for the Halloween, it makes me feel like a kid again...lol