Halloween Costumes 2009: The Geekiest Costume Ideas (PHOTOS, POLL)

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Halloween's just around the corner and it's time to start stressing about what you'll be. Forget "hot librarian" (yawn) or "'80s rockstar" (stale): it's time to go geek.

To help you celebrate your nerdiness, we've put together ideas for geeky Halloween costumes -- with some help from our HuffPostTech readers. Check 'em out: they're cool, they're different, and some are even sexy.

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Darth Waiter

From Tyler-Durden: After the Empire fell, Darth worked a few part time jobs to get by. "I find your lack of gratuity disturbing."

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[Jon Bentley]

Best idea I have seen this year is going as blue man group. Its original and I havent seen it before!

All it needs is something like this http://www.ordercostumes.com/MNKNPBP-blue-man-group-makeup.html and some black clothes and your done!

Cheap, easy and unique! I cant wait for halloween again!

[Tyler-Durden]

i like Halloween for TWO REASONS:

1. it's a day where everyone agrees to be someone other than themselves for a little while; to let loose and have fun with a mask or costume.

2. it's one of the ONLY DAYS where people go out and buy stuff that they intend to give out randomly to total strangers. I don't know how much candy is purchased for halloween, but it's one of the few things we do in a totally generous, no need to thank me, kind of way. "I bought candy; you dressed up and knocked on my door, so here you go." How cool is that? I wish we did more things so selflessly.

People go out to buy candy for the simple enjoyment of giving it out to kids to come around trying to have a good time. I remember my parents being disappointed if they didn't have enough kids come to take all they bought. So I always felt it was MY DUTY to go out there and help people give out all their candy by dressing up and asking for it.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

[Tyler-Durden]

HEY! THAT'S ME!!

wow, i never thought they'd pick mine to put online. i feel kinda famous now. ha, not really. that was a good costume tho. i won $50 for it last year!

i have ALWAYS dressed up for Halloween since i was around 10. i trick-or-treated well into my 20s. when i was little, my broke-ass parents couldn't afford store-bought costumes, so they'd dress me up in my dad's work clothes, and put burnt cork on my face for a scruff, and gave me a stick with a hankerchief sack on the end. i was a hobo. that was my costume every year until i could make my own.

since then, i've done The Blues Brothers, The A-Team, The Addams Family, Speed Racer, Howie from Deal or No Deal, Fred Flintstone, The Verizon "Can you hear me now?" guy, the 1-800-COLLECT guy, Mr. K from MIB, Batman, and plenty others i can't remember right now.

[HekmabaJuzimax]

I like the "Elvis the Stormtrooper" one.

[MiHi]

Is this residual overhype for Comic-Con 2009, or extreme advance overhype for Comic-Con 2010?

In either case, ENOUGH ALREADY!!!

[MJinCanada]

My niece and one of her friends tie-dyed old sheets, sewed them up the sides and went out as amoeba one year. The upside was that they were warmly dressed under the sheets. The downside was that they had to keep explaining what amoeba are.

My older son went out as a mad monk in a voluminous green bathrobe and hood I made for him. The upside was that the two girls dressed as a belly dancer and a hooker frequently joined him in the robe to warm up.

My middle son adores suit jackets, so he's gone out as a Revenue Canada agent (equivalent to your IRS) one year and as an over-slick-looking political candidate during an election campaign. Quite a few people screamed in mock horror over both costumes.

[LMPE]

Once I dressed up as a stick of dynamite (I got the idea from Looney Tunes cartoons). Another time I was a video tape of "Dr. Strangelove".

[klawz]

It looks like the guy with the plug wants to "plug in" to that girl's "socket". Just saying...

[Bitsko]

No need for 15. The Klingon costumes are geeky enough.

[Evan Primakow]

Here's some more ideas for you geeks out there: http://www.chailife.com/2009/09/2009-diy-halloween-costume-roundup/

Enjoy!

[OkieIntellectual]

Isn't dressing up for Halloween something you're supposed to outgrow around age 14 or so?

[CrazedSurfer]

No way. The university I went to had one of the best Art Schools in the country. Talking about some bizarre costumes.

[oil88]

good self promotion for geeks re youtube outfit! may apply on fb as profile pic as well. haha. save a lot of work when asking for contacts, just simple ask the girls to write a comment on your "wall".

[russjosephs]

Why is there a giant next to a midget? Can't you guys get better graphics? ;)

[hypnotoad72]

If somebody made Lay, Madoff, Petters, or Hecker costumes, would they benefit from the profits and return the money they stole from their investors, customers, and the rest of us?