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Phantom Blooper
10-20-07, 09:18 PM
One Night Stand:
Take a box, paint drawers on the front. Cut a round hole large enough to slip box over your head. Staple magazines and an alarm clock on top of the box, and cover your head with a lamp shade.

Chalk Outline:
Wear all black and line edge of body with masking tape.

Phantom of the Grand Ole Opry:
Wear black clothes, a black cape, and a Phantom of the Opera mask. Then add a cowboy hat, boots, and a toy gun and holster.

Deviled Egg:
Dress in all white and paint or attach a yellow circle to your stomach. Then wear devil horns and carry a pitchfork.

Gold Digger:
Put on a gold dress. Sprinkle gold glitter in your lip gloss. Paint your nails gold. Paint a toy shovel gold, and carry it with a bag of gold rocks.

Buccaneer:
Attach a dollar to each ear.

Leaf Blower:
Wear a baseball cap with a leaf dangling down in front of your face. When someone asks what you are, blow on the leaf!

Harry Potter:
Put on excessive fake hair of some sort, maybe a wig and or beard/mustache and a belt. Stick an empty bag of potting soil in the belt and attach a small lightweight plastic pot.

Static Cling:
Wear anything a solid color is good all white or all black. With safety pins pin anything to yourself i.e. socks, underwear, bounce sheets, etc. You can also spray your hair straight up in the air.

Gum Under the Chair:
Put on all pink, use elastic/ribbon to attach a small doll or Barbie chair to your head.

Q-Tip:
Have someone wear a white hooded sweatshirt, with the hood up and tied, to make constructing the costume easier. Glue a large amount of Fiberfill onto the hood so it looks like the tip of a cotton swab or Q-tip. (for a Dirty Q-Tip Spot it generously with yellow paint. Let it dry.) Put on the white sweatpants, shoes, and sweat jacket. Put up the hood and tie. As a finishing touch, paint your face white.

Coat of Arms:
Cut the arms off several long-sleeved shirts, and sew them to the back of an inexpensive sports jacket. Stuff each sleeve with batting. Partially inflate the latex gloves, and tie off each one as you would a balloon. Safety-pin a balloon hand to the inside of each cuff.

Blessing in Disguise:
Wear dark glasses and a sign that says "bless you"

Forest of Trees:
Wear a poster board with a wad of gum (gum tree), piece of fur (fur tree), a hand (palm tree), etc.

E-male:
Male: Cut two E shapes out of the paper or fabric. Glue/pin to the front and back of your shirt.

The Last Straw:
Wear dark clothing with a single white straw sticking up from your shirt pocket.

Fork in the Road:
Dark clothing with two strips of duct or reflective tape going up your legs and chest on each side. In the middle, tape a white plastic fork.

Freudian Slip:
Wear a full under slip and pin a paper sign to it that says "Freud".

Rock Star:
Find a smooth rock suitable for carrying, and paint a big gold star on it. If you like, wear a punk rocker wig as an added touch.

Undy Taker:
Wear dark clothing and pins a half dozen ladies' frilly panties in bright colors all over the back.

Bar Fly:
Wear a black, short, sexy little dress with some inexpensive gauze wings from the novelty store. Carry a martini glass.

Dust Bunny:
Dress up in a bunny costume (sweats with rabbit ears and bunny tail work fine as well) Wrap some 'spider web' stuff all around and cover yourself with corn-starch. Leave your mark by hugging everyone in the party.

Black-Eyed P:
Take a white sweat shirt and tack on the letter P from sparkly felt, with some black makeup 'blacken' one eye.

Chick Magnet:
Wear all black and attach small baby chicks (can be made of pom poms and felt) all over.

Ding Bat:
Dress as a bat (can use an old black umbrella, ripped in half on black clothing) and carry a bell.

A Copy Cat:
Wear a pair of kitty ears and a tail, and draw on eyeliner whiskers and a little triangle nose. Cover yourself with little paper "Xerox" signs.

Pumpkin Pi:
Buy a bright orange jack-o-lantern shirt (with the face on the front). Cut out a felt pi symbol (you know, the one you use for the
circumference of a circle) and pin it to the back of your shirt.

Mail Man:
Mail: Wear dark clothing and pin envelopes to all over the back.