I specifically said my Halloween party was a costume party. This means you wear a costume! What kind of a friend doesn’t show up in a costume when I specifically told everyone to wear one? Your excuse: I was too busy to go costume shopping and I didn’t know what I wanted to be anyway.
I invite you to my party and you can’t even be bothered to dress up. Everyone but you was dressed up! You’re a lazy bitch who is so inconsiderate of the feelings of others. —You Stuck Out Like a Sore Thumb

This article appears in Nov 3-9, 2011.

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  2. I fail to see how this is such an affront to your feelings. So she showed up without a costume? So what? WTF is the big deal? I don’t think it’s inconsiderate. It would be different if she said she was coming and then just didn’t bother to show. THAT would be inconsiderate. If she’s comfortable being at a party and being the only person not in costume, then where’s the harm? It in no way should have any reflection on how considerate/inconsiderate she is. If you were her REAL friend, it shouldn’t matter what she is/is not wearing, anyway. If you REALLY considered this person to be your friend, then you’d just be happy that they showed up at all and would enjoy their company. Get over yourself and stop being so Goddamned superficial.

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  5. God can you imagine the poor souls that get duped into being part of a wedding party for this high maintenance bimbo?

    Hey OP. Go fuck yourself. Your friends aren’t your barbies you nasty bitch.

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  11. TTFn…with a streamer of mustard on top of the ketchup, she could have been a used tampon, with trace of infection ~;)

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  13. Did you ever think maybe they couldn’t afford a fucking 60 dollar costume? I went to a party and didn’t wear a customer and YES i felt awkward and it was a little weird, but I am on a budget and a costume just wasn’t able to fit into it. If you can’t handle the fact that your friend didn’t want to spend money on making/buying something that they will only wear once a year then fuck off.

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  14. When I go to a costume party without a costume, I rip the shirt off my one shoulder and go as Janet Jackson with an equipment malfunction. My man boobs really freak some people out.

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  15. I wouldn’t mind if it was 6 people drinking in an apartment, but if it’s a big party ya I would be disappointed if people didn’t dress up. My poorly designed store bought costume was abandoned this year but I still threw on a ski mask, black clothes, gloves, knife and went as a Halifax swarmer/mugger.

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  16. Some of us don’t wear stupid costumes for any reason. So did you tell this person if they didn’t wear a costume they couldn’t come? I thought not.

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  17. Fuck off OP. Be happy your friend showed up to your stupid costume party anyway.
    Just because you want everyone to spend money on something they will only wear once a year doesn’t mean they will.
    Next time you want to have a costume party make “Have to wear costume” a rule or else they are not invited.
    Glad I don’t know you.

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  18. You fuckheads, what don’t you understand about – It’s a costume party, wear a costume? OP It’s your party and you can tell people what to wear if you want to! No costume! No Party! It seems Nove Scotia is getting more backward by the day…be careful it will be 2010 soon…

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  19. Although I totally don’t think it warrants calling a someone a lazy bitch, I can kind of see why OP would be annoyed that her friend didn’t wear a costume. I think as the host of a party, you have the right to make certain rules or requests of your guests. IMO, her friend’s behaviour is really no different than showing up at a formal affair in jeans and a t-shirt, or showing up at a potluck empty handed. It’s a bit tacky and disrespectful.

    However, in the future, I would suggest OP employ my solution. Anyone who shows up at my party without a costume gets a costume chosen for them out of the tickle trunk. Those who don’t like having their outfits chosen by a bunch of giggling drunks quickly learn to dress appropriately the next time.

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  23. that’s the ticket sucks, just wear something freaky everyday…good to go. for example, me ma thought i looked like a bag lady today^^

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  24. People who show up at a costume party uncostumed are weak, but so is this bitch. How much of a “friend” are you really to this person if you call them a lazy bitch just because they didn’t show up in costume. Get a grip

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  26. Oh my god, you must have a very small, very pathetic life indeed.
    Go watch another episode of Jersey Shore already.

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  27. Plenty of my friends made cheap homemade costumes without much effort or even reused costumes from years past. Nobody complained because at least they took a few minutes of effort. Going to a costume party without a costume is like being a militant straight edger at a party. Either way it’s PARTY POOPING.

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  28. And that’s fine, but some of us don’t do the costume thing. All one has to say is no costume, don’t show up. Believe me it won’t break our hearts.

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  31. i like your arm chair hugo, sorta like a foot stool i once had, before the cops seized all my extra body parts.damn, gotta go grave robbing again soon.

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  33. There’s lots of costume options that don’t cost much.
    How about for a guy costume… a potato.
    Just carve a hole in it.
    Take all your clothes off stick the potato on the end of your dick & go as a ‘dictator’
    For a female, simply put on a pair of boots that go as high up your leg as possible, strip off & go as ‘a pussy, in boots ‘.
    Not only is it cheap, your sure to attract a crowd
    ~;)

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  34. Ah damn! Now I’m all nostalgic and sentimental about Mr. Dressup. I miss that guy. (I met Mr. Coombs once in person when I was like 8. Shook my hand. He may as well have been royalty, I was in that much awe. That was a great day.)

    Also…

    LOL @ Mel. Too right. “OH NOOOOOO!! You’ll leave a ring!!!”

    and Hugo…
    Armed and dangerous? Army of one? A Handy man?

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  36. I dunno Vastie. Single man. Extensive wardrobe. Little boy living in a tree in his backyard. Something kind of eeeeuuuuuuuuggghhhhh about that. >; )
    Friendly Giant was cooler. Loved those concert days in the music room with the Raccoons and the Jazz Cats.

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  37. Is $60 what they’re charging for shitty sweatshop labour costumes these days? That’s ridiculous.

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  40. People that show up at costume parties without any attempt to do anything are lame. This person should have stayed the fuck away. What is wrong with you people?

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  41. I’m with the Friendly Giant all the way! …and a bigger chair for two more to curl up in …

    I was never fond of Mr. Dress-up but my eyes well up every time I think of the MacKinnon cartoon when he died!

    http://bit.ly/s3w44l

    And I met him too, Avast. In a line-up at the Nova Scotia Light and Power mechanical Fantasy Land thing they did at Christmas. Anybody remember that? It was somewhere on Barrington Street and then moved to Scotia Square.

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  42. This person could go as the ‘party suck’ Is suck still a noun meaning party pooper? It’s a great word, one that I could not use stateside–nobody got it.

    Miow, LOVE the tickle trunk!

    Agree with everyone else on the cost being a crappy excuse. Anyone can go as a recycle box (with a newspaper hat) or a ‘cereal killer’ or something else that requires only imagination. Here’s one I saw: orange ears and tail, holding a blue ball at its tummy: it’s firefox!

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  44. No, the power is not back yet. The last word was ‘by 6 p.m. on Friday’. I have been driving by a downed tree near my street all week and STILL no one is working on it. I am at the library…that closes at 5 today. Yes, the states SUCK. Emptied out my fridge and freezer and threw everything out…not in a compost container of course, because we don’t have those (we do have a compost bin, but I didn’t want to put meat in it) for the trash pick up that I pay $600/year for. I am about ready to hitch a ride with the tugboat when it comes back from florida.

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  48. Blashphemy! Tim. Death to those who insult the Giant, blessings be upon him. >; )

    I used to hide behind the couch Painey. I honestly thought that bitch could see me and I found that creepy in the extreme.

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  49. haha, come to think of it, if she had called my name, i woulda pooped me drawers. i had a thing for the giant^^

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  50. He didn’t condescend. He, Rusty & Jerome were like the guys in Goodfellas…

    Okay, I don’t know where the hell that came from. I need sleep.

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  51. C’mon now John, we have a giant who lives with a cock and a guy with a neck so long that the term deep throat was coined. Coincidence? Enquiring minds want to know. LOL.

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  60. Many Happy Returns, Wheelie! My birthday was yesterday and just before midnight, the power came back on. Yippee!
    Gazz, that’s some foxy firefox you got there!

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  64. Well Gazza, it certainly was not one of Clint’s best and the use of post Star Wars I.L.M. special FX just looked cheezy. Supporting cast of Brits and Germans playing Russians is kind of cool in a Trivial Pursuit kind of way. Warren Clarke(Clockwork Orange) as a dissident, Wolf Kahler & Ronald Lacey (Raiders) as Yuri Andropov and a Russian scientist, Nigel Hawthore (Madness of King George III) as another Russian scientist, Freddie Jones (Elephant Man) as a Brit spymaster.

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  65. Hey Ivan (morning all). I saw BOC at the Moon (many moons ago), they’re a phenomenal live band.

    My fav BOC tune, a little dark, but since it’s almost Remembrance Day…

    “My energy’s spent at last
    And my armor is destroyed
    I have used up all my weapons and I’m helpless and bereaved
    Wounds are all I’m made of
    Did I hear you say that this is victory?”

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mWGmzduYnU

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  66. Morning Hugo – I’ll give it a spin when I’m at home. Certain songs from my youth stick out from the A.M. dross that was the soundtrack to my 70’s. I can remember exactly where I was and what I was doing the first time I heard “Reaper”. “Born To Run” is another. Back seat of a car, heading to a party in NorthWest Calgary in a blizzard with 4 Lethbridge Pilsners hooked from the fridge.
    Good times, good times.

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  69. Oh Dear God, you two have turned my innocent, protected childhood into an opium den located in Incest Co., West Virginia. I need to cleanse my mind with a good old- fashioned, family-values oriented series set in the Old West. I hear Deadwood is good. >; )

    jk/ Al Swearengen is my muse.

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  70. Ian, IIRC there was more to the MacLean and Maclean skit(?). They did the theme, dom dom dom dom dom dom puff dom dom dom dom puff and it ened when Rusty asked Friendly what was for dinner and Friendly replied “Fried chicken you little asshole”.

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  72. “Just think that if you dressed up as either or that you may pass as a human for an hour or two, f-a-g-g-o-t.”
    – Posted by Donairious BIG on November 3, 2011 at 8:58 PM

    Illegal hate speech. Ban the user. Delete the post. If you do not then you are as guilty as he.

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