Hey, thanks all who joined us for some super fun Halloween action at the ol’ Belmont Inn!
Had at least 20 costumes, and many of them were just awesome! Where to begin…? Lessee, dug Desperately Avoiding Last Place’s gal who went as the Black-Eyed Peas. She put the letter P all over her black-clad self–I thought she was gonna say she was a “P Fairy” honestly, but hey, a mediocre hiphop group works too. Never can have too many of those.
Enjoyed Ryan from YMBP as Sleazy Dwarf, the eighth dwarf they successfully kept out of the limelight, and also YMBP’s adorable Beer Wench. The No-Mouth monkeys chimed in with a great Frida Kahlo (replete with uni-brow), as well as a Cat Lady (replete with fuzzy kitties dangling from every direction). McCain’s Heart Attack brought it with the Morton Salt Girl (A for creativity on that one, though they didn’t win that category because they didn’t enter the actual costume contest), and Bobbing for Beige Food represented with one sexy rendition of Sarah Palin. And the Boners in Sweatpants brought the house down, winning “Funniest” with a literal interpretation of their name (I’ll spare you the description, or you can look at the photo below).
But the big costume winners were Burlap Exorcist, a BRAND NEW team who came fully decked out in two costumes. Amanda was Regan from the Exorcist (replete with green vomit on her white dress), and Sean (I think. Sorry Sean if I’m misremembering!) as an awesome desert guy with a camel. He’d concocted an entire burlap sort of desert robe and made a puppet camel AND a sort of pull-over felt bearded desert face. It was AWESOME, and deservedly, this team took home Scariest, Most Creative, AND Best in show. Unfortunately, they still came in last place… BUT they won our hearts. And really that’s all that matters at Pub Quiz in the end. That, and cold, hard cash.
HUGE thanks tonight to Executive Assistant Renee, who further solidified her honorary title as Best Assistant Ever by concocting a bitchin’ spreadsheet in front of my VERY eyes that allowed us to score all the costume votes (and there were many) in a matter of minutes, and compute the winner slam bam, thank you maam. It was amazing to behold, as I am a computer illiterate capable of emailing and moving the mouse around, and that’s about it. Renee is my crutch at these things, folks, you must know that, and there are many nights where I just rub my temples and tell myself I just couldn’t do it without her… or at least not without my blood pressure raising beyond legal limits.
thanks also to the Belmont Inn for giving the top three vote-getting teams a free pitcher of beer. That was an awfully sweet gesture from an awfully sweet bar… though they did eat all my candy. But that’s okay! Candy is good, how can you resist?
Safe travels tomorrow everyone. Drink well. Costume good. Get laid.
JWS… Photos below!
Our big winners from Burlap Exorcist. Congrats!
One of the Boners in Sweatpants lives up to his name.
YMBP’s adorable Beer Wench from (insert northern European country here.)
YMBP’s adorable Sleazy Dwarf, from Fantasyland.
Frida Kahlo from the No-Mouth Monkeys.
McCain’s Heart Attack’s Zombie Pimp doin’ da Zombie Pimp strut.
If Sarah Palin really looked like this… I still wouldn’t vote for her.