Candy Dish Blog

We had so many clever entries for our Halloween costume contest that it took our celebrity judges a little longer than expected to pick their winners, but I’m happy to report that we’ve come up with some great choices.

Are you dressing as Swine Flu this Halloween?

For anyone still trying to figure out what to dress as for Halloween, let me summarize the most popular costume choices for you:

1. Jon, Kate or any of their eight

2. Balloon boy, or the balloon itself

3. Swine flu, or swine flew or swine flue

4. The Nobel Prize, or some variation on a political protest

And now for our winners:

Kyle, our celebrity blogger from The Onion AV Club, chose Alison S.who will be going out this year dressed as “Joan from Mad Men…but all bloodied and holding a severed foot.” In Kyle’s words her idea is “simple, current (that episode was awesome), and bloody, to keep with the Halloween theme.”

Rachel, who regularly blogs at averagejanecrafter.blogspot.com and blog.craftzine.com, likes Rob C’s costume idea: the money you could be saving with Geico.  He’s managed to make a ”giant stack of money with 15″ googlie eyes” and even recruited a friend to answer “It’s the money you could be saving with Geico” every time someone asks about Rob’s costume.  Rachel liked Rob’s idea for its “crafty hilarity”.

Gizmodo blogger Mark chose Brian’s entry: a dejected Chicagoan saddened by the loss of the 2016 Olympics.  Since Mark, unlike Brian, actually does live in Chicago and likely will be there on Halloween this probably hit close to home for him.

Lois, who was set to judge the contest from Grub Hub, was unavailable at the last minute … but her colleague Jenni Spinner stepped in for her.  Jenni is a Packer fan and liked Charlie’s joke about Brett Favre’s recent indecisiveness. 

Finally, the Candy Dish blog writers were able to pick a fifth prize winner to encourage people to help us promote the contest.  The luckier publicist is Ariel(who also had a rockin’ costume idea, by the way).  Thanks to everyone who helped promote the contest.

Congratulations to all our winners who should, if the USPS complies, be receiving their candy by Halloween. If there’s one thing we love more than candy, it’s giving candy away … so be sure to watch this space for future contests!

Chanchoche by jpcolasso