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I have no idea how I acquire this reputation...	[Jan. 19th, 2007\|12:37 pm] Douglas Spencer
I'm going to a party tomorrow. I've just received extremely clear instructions about how I shouldn't turn up wearing just yellow body paint. Apparently there's a chance it might be thought disturbing. What should I dress as instead? The instructions say "a character from fiction", so there's some considerable scope there.
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purple_peril
2007-01-19 12:48 pm (UTC)

Green body paint could work. Then you'd be an alien from UFO.
Or how about going as an Oompaloompa?

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arborophile
2007-01-19 01:09 pm (UTC)

but isnt he too tall for an Oompaloompa? :)

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purple_peril
2007-01-19 01:14 pm (UTC)

He could go as an Oompaloompa's dad.

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dougs
2007-01-19 01:25 pm (UTC)

I could put "He could go as an Ooompaloompa's dad" on my LJ profile page under the "what some people have said about me" section.

I'd have to colour my hair too.

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stevegreen
2007-01-19 02:16 pm (UTC)

Star Trek and Lost in Space both got there first.

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stevegreen
2007-01-19 02:18 pm (UTC)

But you could always go as the Green Man.

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quercus
2007-01-19 02:28 pm (UTC)

One big leaf, just for travelling to the party.

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stevegreen
2007-01-19 02:41 pm (UTC)

Good job we're past autumn.

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loneraven
2007-01-19 01:00 pm (UTC)

*laughs* Just a chance, yes. :)

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dougs
2007-01-19 01:25 pm (UTC)

Other colours are fine, it's just yellow that's the problem. Yes?

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timill
2007-01-19 01:26 pm (UTC)

Moonwatcher? No body paint there...

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dougs
2007-01-19 01:31 pm (UTC)

I'm not sure I'm quite hairy enough. I've got a stick...

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sarah_mum
2007-01-19 01:47 pm (UTC)

The words 'shark infested custard' have leapt unbidden into my head.

What would you have been in said bodypaint?

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dougs
2007-01-19 02:38 pm (UTC)

Try to guess. I would have needed to take a yellow trombone with me.

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sarah_mum
2007-01-19 02:51 pm (UTC)

I never knew you were a marine. :-)

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stevegreen
2007-01-19 02:17 pm (UTC)

The instructions say "a character from fiction"

How about God?

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dougs
2007-01-19 02:39 pm (UTC)

Birthday girl is a Hindu. I might be outnumbered.

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the_magician
2007-01-19 03:34 pm (UTC)

Saddam with weapons of mass destruction (very fictional!)

An honest politician (wait, that's fantasy!)

Captain Ahab ... "Aye, there be that Moby Leg, the whale that bit off my ... oh wait, I mean ... " :-)

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darth_tigger
2007-01-19 02:20 pm (UTC)

Actually I've always wondered if you were fictional yourself, so you could just go as

dougs.

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dougs
2007-01-19 04:16 pm (UTC)

I refer you to my earlier comment to

timill -- not quite hairy enough.

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surliminal
2007-01-19 04:08 pm (UTC)

Blue body paint.
= captain's crumpet.
Anyone I know's party?!

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dougs
2007-01-19 04:18 pm (UTC)

Not someone you know, I think. An Oxford PPEist who has been an excellent slash writer since the age of about 15, and who was active in the M*A*S*H-slash forums when I first joined them four or five years ago.

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johncoxon
2007-01-19 04:48 pm (UTC)

I'd love to see you dressed up as Radar. It'd be hilarious!

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dougs
2007-01-19 05:03 pm (UTC)

I'd need the right kind of glasses. In fact, I'd have liked those glasses when I dressed up as Ponder Stibbons at New Year's Eve, but I made some out of cardboard.

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not_vacillating
2007-01-19 09:38 pm (UTC)

If I declared myself fictional for the day, you could go as me, thereby slightly reducing my irritation at not being able to get there.

All you need is a black skirt and a hat.

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dougs
2007-01-19 09:53 pm (UTC)

So if you were there, you'd only be wearing a skirt and a hat?

Now I'm really disappointed that you're missing it.

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not_vacillating
2007-01-19 10:53 pm (UTC)

I would certainly consider it. Especially if I could decide which fictional character would wear that.

And believe me, I'm very disappointed too.

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