Hey, what are you being for Halloween? Bess and I have been invited to a variety of Halloween parties and apparently Halloween falling in the middle of the week means that everyone feels entitled to tell you that you must wear a costume for, like, five days. Horrendous. Or even worse. So, we need your help. What should we dress up as this week.
We've got some conceptual ideas but we need your suggestions about how we should make these happen. Please let us know what you think the best ways to dress as the following.
• Credit Crunch.
• Oil roaring to record levels.
• Write downs.
• Ben Bernanke.
• Ben Bernake's helicopter.
• Slutty Nasdaq.
• Slutty China.
• Slutty Warren Buffett.
• Slutty and Pregnant Becky Quick.
• Maria Bartiromo.
• Opec.
• Free furniture.
• Cheap chocolate.
• Proxy access.
Posted by captain crunch , Oct 26, 2007 9:31AM
I think there could be a play with Captain (Credit) Crunch
Posted by I heart 1040s , Oct 26, 2007 9:33AM
Andrew Tong dressed as a man.
Posted by HAM'05 , Oct 26, 2007 9:36AM
not sure if we first heard about it here or on los - but throw optimus sub-prime in there for ideas as well - i need to make this happen
Posted by girl , Oct 26, 2007 9:38AM
How about you the old Suit and Crab Claws number carney
Posted by Ben_H , Oct 26, 2007 9:39AM
Question for the peanut gallery:
I have the dubious honor of, in addition to my "real" responsibilities, running the NY office of the fund I work for. A few people asked (or perhaps "importuned" is a better characterization) if I would object to people coming to work in costume on Halloween. While I usually don't impose much discipline, order, or even organization, I found this request a little much. I mean -- what do you call workers who work in costume? I think the technical term is "clown." Where do clowns work? A circus. Should I let my office become a circus?
Anyway, the question is: am I being unreasonable?
Posted by SDH , Oct 26, 2007 9:42AM
HEY YOU FORGOT BECKY QUICK, WITH BIG BELLY AND ALL. oH YEAH AND WHAT ABOUT CHUCK PRINCE AND STAN O'NEAL? THOSE WOULD BE BIG HITS AT A WALLSTREET HALLOWEEN PARTY
Posted by watchmen , Oct 26, 2007 9:44AM
To Ben _H........Why in hell don't you try to stick to subject at the top of this site....and keep your bullshit confined to Dealbreaker's subject.
Posted by Joe , Oct 26, 2007 9:44AM
I've been trying to get my best friend to be "The Donut" in Medicare Part D for a long time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donut_Hole_%28Medicare%29
But he keeps refusing. He was, however, "runaway inflation" a couple years ago.
Posted by , Oct 26, 2007 9:49AM
as Tim Sykes for costume
Posted by girl , Oct 26, 2007 9:50AM
Ben,
it probably already is a circus, unbeknownst to you.
Posted by D , Oct 26, 2007 9:54AM
Sexual Harassment Panda
or cheap chocolate- an ethnic transvestite hooker
Posted by mrpink , Oct 26, 2007 10:04AM
Pimp N Ho
Posted by Anonymous , Oct 26, 2007 10:08AM
Michael Vick
Posted by , Oct 26, 2007 10:08AM
watchmen, i notice you don't have anything to post on the subject of this topic either. so you just want to post to be a dick? or what?
in fact nobody has had any comment on the subject "Please let us know what you think the best ways to dress as the following."
Posted by , Oct 26, 2007 10:08AM
Haven't even seen a halfway decent answer to Dealbreaker's question... nice work everyone
Posted by just me , Oct 26, 2007 10:09AM
@ Ben H - meet in the middle - let the people who lose money dress as clowns, the money makers get the day off
Posted by anon anon anon , Oct 26, 2007 10:10AM
wear masks of ....any of the CEO's of our financial firms. Scary shit seeing them come into a room especially if you have any cash in your pocket. "HI, I'm Stan O'Neil, let me give you some investment advice."
Posted by , Oct 26, 2007 10:14AM
slutty china - John, we already know you know how they dress. Don't pretend like you don't.
Posted by Could it be more obvious? , Oct 26, 2007 10:14AM
Are you kidding me? No Jeff Epstein?
Posted by LBhO , Oct 26, 2007 10:15AM
Something both guys and girls dress up as is Maxamillia(n)
Posted by Ben_H , Oct 26, 2007 10:16AM
John Devaney -- just wear a captain's hat without owning a boat.
Posted by Nominate me , Oct 26, 2007 10:20AM
I tell a couple of them that it is okay, then openly mock them when they are the only ones that show up in drag.
Between Bartiromo, Bernanke, and Becky Quick, there has to be some sort of face in lap/up investors ass type costume out there somewhere.
Posted by Steve , Oct 26, 2007 10:33AM
Michael Vick anyone? I did the jersey with a little bloody dog.
Posted by allovernow , Oct 26, 2007 10:34AM
Captain Credit Crunch; you could dress up as captain crunch and make a toilet paper roll of rating agency reports.
Posted by bunky , Oct 26, 2007 10:41AM
I had a friend last year go as Facebook. Should ask what he's going as this year and try and put money into it.
Posted by LippyTex , Oct 26, 2007 10:42AM
Go trick or treating as Jeff Epstein' s terrycloth towel.
Posted by watchmen , Oct 26, 2007 10:45AM
Anonymous........If you would take a walk to the mall or stick your head in the toilet......you would save a lot of space for someone with a brain to comment on subject. True I don't have a comment but this is not potpourri time.
Posted by Nominate me , Oct 26, 2007 10:49AM
Lippy Tex, expand on that theme.
Go as Maxamillia's (?) banana hammock.
Posted by , Oct 26, 2007 10:56AM
thanks for reiterating that you are a dick. if you are so concerned with saving space, maybe you should stop being the dealbreaker moderator hey?
Posted by girth b. wonderful , Oct 26, 2007 10:58AM
I'm gonna just be a Big Swinging Dick...ladies get in line.
Posted by Anal_yst , Oct 26, 2007 11:02AM
I think I'm going dressed as a Dick in a Box, which really just means I'm just going as me just wearing a box
Posted by Sparky , Oct 26, 2007 11:12AM
I'm going as a NINJA loan.
Posted by Cheddar , Oct 26, 2007 11:30AM
Jeffrey Epstein's towel...Any takers?
Posted by NasCrack , Oct 26, 2007 12:02PM
Going as Angelo Mozilo's spray on tan would realy get the party started
Posted by Give-up Agreement , Oct 26, 2007 12:06PM
(1) Todd Thomson with a life-size Maria Bartiromo doll attached to my crotch.
(2) Dirty homeless guy with a Merrill, Citi, or BoA ID.
(3) John Fitzgerald Page.
Posted by Powell , Oct 26, 2007 12:13PM
I actually could dress up as Stan O'Neal by dying my hair grey, wearing my normal suit and tie, and walking around with a "Recently Lost Job and $8 Billion Dollars, Will Work For Food" sign...
Posted by Make her open that box , Oct 26, 2007 12:18PM
Best Halloween costume idea? Dick in a box!
Posted by Ian , Oct 26, 2007 1:37PM
I'm going to dress up as MLEC. Superman costume with a giant bottomless trashcan on my back.
Posted by watchmen , Oct 26, 2007 2:15PM
Give-up Agreement.........Hey, I like you first choice.....Happy Halloween
Posted by watchmen , Oct 26, 2007 2:15PM
Give-up Agreement.........Hey, I like your first choice.....Happy Halloween
Posted by Willie Nelson , Oct 26, 2007 3:03PM
HEY CARNEY......HAVE YOU NOTICED EVERY TIME YOU MENTION BARTIROMO IN A PIECE HERE.......SHE DOESN'T SHOW UP TO WORK HER CLOSING BELL. THINK SHE'S PISSED?
Posted by guest , Oct 07, 2008 7:35PM
benandhank.com
now you just need to decide whether to be ben or hank