Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween! If anyone has been around the strip lately tons of people are milling about in costumes. Many of the casinos are doing big costume contests also, I hear the Palms has a big prize this year. What is everyone dressing up as this year? One year I was a deck of cards (I made a body suit out of about 10 decks of cards) last year I was a vampire, and this year I am the ghost face from Scream.

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One year I was a deck of cards (I made a body suit out of about 10 decks of cards)

Cute :)

The most original cotume I ever saw was this guy in a 5-star general's costume, with lots and lots of LEDs places on the piping, the stars, the medals, everywhere. He claimed he was dressed as General Electric :D

Unfortunately, I'm stuck handing out candy at home. The best costume so far: the hot air balloon, followed closely by the simple bottle of mustard. What kid thinks up: "I'm going to dress up as a bottle of mustard?". Look for him at the blue jays game in 15 years selling dogs. The older boy in the balloon costume looked embarrassed to be out there.

My daughter, who is 13 is in her last year of trick-or-treating, I hope. She's just out now for the candy.

Do any casinos allow the dealers to wear Halloween costumes? Mohegan Sun does and it is hilarious and somewhat risque. They've been doing it for years and I've only seen one person told to change. It was a fat pit boss in a Speedo. What was he thinking?

I've often wondered about security concerns with all the different costumes. If there was ever an opportunity for a dishonest dealer to grab some chips this would be it-- except for that fat pit boss.

We do. No masks or ridiculously complicated things (seen a suit of armor made of beer boxes/cans, that wouldn't fly no matter how epic it was). Today I seen Sgt Slaughter, some Davy Crockett looking dude, your obligatory kitty cats and fairies, and someone in a 30's style chain gang getup.

Last year we had Good Nurse/Bad Nurse. I think they were trying to out-tramp each other. The one had one of those corsets on that was a might to small for her ampleness, and since she kept going to her bosom to adjust after every round(without clearing hands, mind you) it was my duty to keep eyes peeled on that all night. It made for a very strange night of work, knowing that not only was it possible that I watch this and get paid for it, but it was my duty that I MUST watch it.

Imagine the hottest girl at your local casino, dressed totally Fredericks of Hollywood. And imagine having to stare at her for four hours. It's pretty cool for the first 30 minutes, then things start to get weird. I felt like I should have at least introduced myself lol.

This was the first time I've been in a Halloween costume in ten years. My partner and I went as Sonny and Cher. I got to be Sonny - it was my one condition for going along with it. (All the makeup made me nervous - plus I was afraid I'd be dubbed "Homeliest Cher.")

I kind of dreaded it, but we ended up having a blast. We went to a party and then to a bar, where several people wanted their picture taken with us. Now that I think of it, maybe we should bring that act to Fremont Street and charge people a buck or two for a photo!

I went to the classy cocktail lounge dressed as Arthur Dent. I was served by Captain America and Robin, and had an awesome Rum/Lemon creation with my friends Rambo, the Dread Pirate, Skelebones, Neil Armstrong and Archer.

Good times.

See any vogons?

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Unfortunately, I'm stuck handing out candy at home. The best costume so far: the hot air balloon, followed closely by the simple bottle of mustard. What kid thinks up: "I'm going to dress up as a bottle of mustard?"

Maybe he saw it on Let's Make A Deal ? For some reason, there are a lot of "mustard and ketchup bottle" couples (almost as if the show keeps the costumes on standby in case a couple without costumes shows up).

Meanwhile, for the third year running, I got no visitors (that's what happens when you live at the end of a row of townhouses where the only connection to another street is at the other end). You think that kids would want one-ounce bars of gold.

(Not that I was going to give any out - just, you would think that they would want them...and they probably do.)

The most creative home-made costume I ever saw a kid wear was a three-headed monster. He had two rubber mask type heads on his shoulders, and had made an oversize T-shirt that looked like it hat three neck holes, oversize jacket, etc. Saw that about 10 years ago.

The best costume on an adult was a beer keg. This guy was wrapped in grey flannel with obviously hula hoops underneath to give it that barrel look. And he had a hard had on with a beer tap screwed to it. When you look at it, you kinda say "Ok, whatever." The kicker was, underneath he had a mini keg strapped to his back with hoses going to that tap. He was a WORKING beer keg and tap! Saw that about 20 years ago.