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-- Tjames Madison
Last Minute Halloween Costume Ideas 2002
2002-10-31 11:41:13
Beaujolais! Last-minute Halloween costume ideas from Mr. Bad! A last-minute column for the last-minute shopper!
- a bug
- a house
- Atandt
- a cowboy
- GNUstep
- a can of Sterno
- Oliver North
- a bottle of antifreeze
- Gary North
- Mike Pemulis
- a baseball player
- Flo from "Alice"
- a Saab
- Peter North
- a ballerina princess
- a DAG
- a zenbo
- Docbook XML 4.2
- nettime-l
- Nanook of the North
- emad
- Li Po
- athlete's foot
- Del Taco
- a jellyfish
- Greedo
- a bellhop
- the WELL
- brewer's yeast
- the Dunkirk boatlift
- fair use
- a hurdy-gurdy man
- unistd.h
- a panda bear
- The Bang Bus
- boron
- Carthage
- third normal form
- Professor Moriarty
- Lord Byron
- a non-kitten item (NKI)
- Desqview
- Tom Byron
- foosball
- Nick Tosches
- Kramer (Bongwater)
- a witch
- Kramer (Seinfeld)
- battery acid
- a fan dancer
- Kramer (Kramer vs. Kramer)
- Shagrat
- a reporter
- a chicken
- a NAND gate
- binky
- Queen Sarah Saturday
- a cigarette lighter
- Wrigley Field
- a rainy day
- "The Last Waltz"
- Hosni Mubarak
- ZetaLISP
- a horologist
- a radiator hose
- Baron Earl
- WAP
- a holding pattern
- a runaway train
- an umbrella
- quality time
- the Schmoo
- a bait shop
- pasta puttanesca
- Johnny Bench
- Harcourt Mudd
- an electron shell
- the MBONE
- a can opener
- a ghost
- Carl Steadman
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