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We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.
-- HST
Last-Minute Halloween Costume Ideas
1999-10-27 13:52:32
Creatively-challenged? Pressed for time in the busy holiday season? Too whacked out on NO2 to think of a costume for Saturday's party? Don't despair! Just pick one of the ROYALTY-FREE costume ideas off of this week's Mr. Bad's List!
- an evil, bong-wielding, levitating Telebubby
- Lockergnome
- Dylan Klebold
- a pencil
- Eric Harris
- Richard Stallman
- Elizabeth "Liddy" Dole
- Former U.S. poet laureate Robert Haas
- Aphex Twin
- a pretzel
- Fat Elvis
- Tux
- a potato
- Krug
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
- a pencil shaped like a pretzel
- the Bondage Fairies
- Dwight Andreas
- the Slashdot effect
- Morrissey
- "Dandy" Don Marti
- HTML::Mason
- Charlie Brown dressed like a potato
- Fat Jake LaMotta
- a mimosa
- Carrot Top
- L. Fitzgerald Sjoberg
- John Stuart Mill
- a lighthouse
- the Bay Area BBS scene circa 1992
- Dixie Carter
- Evil Spock
- a ghost
- Electrowoman and Dynagirl
- object database technology
- Fat Boy Slim
- a Flavr-Savr tomato
- Mozilla
- a fuckhead Internet startup business guy
- the Fat Boys
- the obsolete GIF graphics format
- Marlene Dietrich
- a troll
- Dieter from "Schprockets"
- dselect
- the Crunchberry Monster thing
- Paul Klee
- Fat-free Jello Tapioca
- the angel Moroni
- SMIL "Boston"
- Jar Jar Binks with a spear through his head
- Del tha Funky Homosapien
- Cherry Poptart
- a cataract
- Bill Bixby
- Forth
- General Ursus
- Horace Greeley
- lowercase "n"
- Edward Scissorhands
- a "Six Million Dollar Man" lunchbox
- Java platform mascot "Duke"
- My Pretty Pony
- a Beowulf cluster computer
- Art Agnos
- Kibo
- Howard Hughes (the good years)
- Dan Rather
- a witch
- Bombay Sapphire
- William H. Macy
- the healing power of laughter
- Howard Hughes (the bad years)
- Paul Allen
- a WinAmp skin
- the Unknown Comic
- oppressive software patents
- Heather, Josh, and Mike
- The TI 99/4 personal computer
- Ed Anger
- circus peanuts
- Opus
- a Subaru
- NSA's top-secret Echelon project
- Gerry Halliwell
- Crash Bandicoot
- Neil Young
- "Rowdy" Roddy Piper
- Solex
- Waylon and Willie and the boys
- Craig's List
- the Best Buys price tag
- the pets.com dog sock puppet
- Jon Katz
- Louie Prima
- Mark Pauline
- Morley Shafer
- Jed Sanders, America's Favorite
- Razor and Blade
- T. Herman Zweibel
- Cole Porter
- Alan Keyes
- an infuriated mandrill
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