So today Kate, who is sitting-in on a J.R.R Tolkien class, came into my room and told me that she and her fellow "Tolkieners" had come up with the idea that at her party tomorrow night everyone should come dressed as a different Tolkien character. This makes her a geek. We have all been relatively understanding that she is in this class in the first place ("intelligent curiosity" says she) but the dress-up idea crosses some sort of line. Yes, she was kidding, which only makes her a facetious geek, but a geek nonetheless. So I made the joke that if she had a Tolkien-themed party that it would be just as geeky as if I suggested that we tell everyone to dress up like a chemical element. She just stared at me disapprovingly (I'm sure you all know exactly the look I'm referring to). And while both ideas are geeky, the more I thought about it (and maybe this is just my newly-approved Chemistry minor talking here), I kept thinking of ideas for costumes which I have decided (against Kate's better judgment...hey we're all friends here right?) to share with you. I've also taken the liberty of listing the atomic number for those of you that care and/or don't believe these are actual names of elements. I must say, there are some I'm more proud of than others and I'm apologizing in advance for most of them. I seem to have gained momentum towards the end there, maybe because those have more creative names in the first place. So here goes nothing:
Hydrogen (1) - best for the smallest person
Lithium/Arsenic (3/33) - look sick/poisoned
Oxygen (8) - walk around with an oxygen tank
Fluorine (9) - dress up as a tube of toothpaste
Neon (10) - think "day-glo"
Aluminum (13) - all you need is a big roll of foil
Silicon (14) - stuff your bra (yeah I know its not quite the same thing, but everybody thinks it is anyway)
Sulfur (16) - wear yellow and eat as many cans of beans as possible
Calcium (20) - dress up as a bone, or a tooth
Scandium (21) - a con-artist maybe?
Nickel (28) - glue as many nickels as possible to your body
Copper (29) - see above, substituting pennies for nickels
Selenium (34) - dress up as the late songstress Selena
Krypton (36) - Superman costume
Zirconium (40) - dress cheap and say you wanted to be a diamond
Ruthenium (44) - really easy if your name happens to be Ruth
Silver/Gold (47/79) - easy enough
Antimony (51) - dress as a rich ex-wife and say you thought it was "Alimony"
Hafnium (72) - only wear half a costume...
Tantalum (73) - a great reason to be slutty and "tantalizing"
Mercury (80) - wear wings on your hat and sandals
Radon (86) - periodically throw things at people and say you're "particle emitting"
Neptunium (93) - all you need are hula hoops, and lots of 'em
Plutonium (94) - be small and distant
Berkelium (97) - wear a Berkeley sweatshirt and decide you're smarter than everybody else
Californium (98) - bikini
Einsteinium (99) - easiest one of all, just concentrate on getting the hair right
Unununium (111) - I can't really think of anything for this one, but its fun to say...maybe you could go around mumbling unintelligibly, think Milford from "Office Space"
Group Costume Ideas
Europium & Americium (63 & 95) - be patriotic and secretly hate each other
The Noble Gases - go in a group of six and only talk to each other
The Big 7 - take 14 people and tie them together in groups of two (not everybody will get that)
Transition Metals - great for anyone who's "between jobs"
Alkali Metals - every time you touch anything water-based, just explode (ok I'm stopping now)
If anybody out there actually HOLDS a chemical element themed get-together, you must must must take pictures and send them to me. If it goes well, you must also give me full credit. Thanks for humoring me. :)
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