For the record, GCers, Alan Alda's character on M*A*S*H was named Capt./Maj. Benjamin Franklin Pierce, aka HAWKEYE!! I just had to set the record straight.
Vanda, I can understand why you so upset that your mother dressed you up as Hawkeye. It was because they ran out the "Hot Lips" Houlihan costumes (j/k, jokes, yall, just jokes
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My worst costumes were:
Halloween 1979-Well, the costume wasn't bad at all, just the timing. My mother dressed me up as a clown before school for the Halloween parade--did a great job with the face painting. But I had to go through school all day with it on me, even had a pair of underwear on my head. When I entered my classroom with that getup on, I was bombarded with laughter. It took an hour for the class to stop snickering.
1981 - I was supposed to be a Mexican person, but no one knew that. All I wore was a straw hat and some makeup.
1982 - I didn't have a costume, but a friend of mine created a decent looking mask using a big paper supermarket bag and put it over my head. I was wearing that and street clothes. As DL Hughley would have said, I was supposed to be a "broke negro"
1985 - I was supposed to be this little heard of comic book character called Ibis the Invincible--He wore a turban and a suit and carried an Ibis stick--a wand that he could make things appear, dissappear, etc. The outfit was great, but no one knew who I was b/c no one read the Feb. 1940 issue of Whiz Comics.
1986 - I was supposed to be a ghost, but because the way the sheet was draped around me, people thought I was an Arab sheik.
I stopped with the costuming after that year.