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Some Non-Sexay Halloween Costumes*

Posted by Mandolin | October 31st, 2007

As I love zoology and paleontology (okay: animals, extinct and otherwise), I feel the need to brag about/display a couple of costumes I find clever.

1) My friend Ann’s daughter Aidan insisted on dressing as a piranha.

pirhanagirl.jpg

2) And last year, my fiance dressed as opabinia, a five-eyed vacuum-mouthed creature that was found in the Burgess Shale.

opabiniacostume.jpg

That paper pinned to his chest is a drawing of an opabinia, so people can figure out what he is. Here’s a version:

opabinia.gif

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*For the record, I have no objection to sex-ay costumes, though I wish they weren’t de rigeur for girls. I just like weird animal costumes better. Many next year I should get Mike to be a sex-ay opabinia?

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3 Responses to “Some Non-Sexay Halloween Costumes*”

  1. Kevin Writes:
    October 31st, 2007 at 11:45 pm

    Opabinia costume = epic win!

    Maybe I should try to be Anomalocaris sometime.

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  2. Holly Writes:
    November 1st, 2007 at 4:53 am

    I’m confused… what could be sexier than an opabinia?

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  3. Diatryma Writes:
    November 1st, 2007 at 7:11 pm

    Does the piranha have a red belly?

    Oh, the expression on Opabinia’s face. Makes me wish I had kept my ctenophore costume, though that would be easy enough to replicate.

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