"It's very challenging legally because dressing up in a costume and walking around Times Square is, we believe, a First Amendment-protected activity, " said Quinn, a candidate to be New York's next mayor.
And while the races are competitive, cyclocross is also beloved for its laid-back atmosphere and sense of humor. (Taking yourself too seriously is for road racers.) Joan Hanscom, the organizer of the Louisville event, recalled a recent cyclocross race in which a fan in a unicorn costume dangled cookies from a fishing line on the course for passing riders to grab.
Still, the tongue-in-cheek ad on the Pepsi website featuring a businessman trying to chose between a woman in a pizza costume and another in a burger outfit, with the message being that you can have it all if you drink Pepsi Special, hints that even Pepsi is aware of the nonsense of its claims.
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Sally Orange owns the record for fastest marathon run in a fruit costume (an orange, of course), when she completed the London marathon in 4 hours, 32 minutes and 28 seconds.
Mr. Wallace has descended from planes in various guises, dressed in a chicken costume and a toga, for instance.
If I were a pure contrarian this kind of stuff would just send me screaming down the street in a bull costume.
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"Bob the Carrot, " finished the London marathon in 3 hours, 34 minutes and 55 seconds while wearing a carrot suit, flying by the guy in the rutabaga outift, and becoming the record holder for the fastest marathon run in a vegetable costume.
He showed me a photograph of himself in costume: a cocked hat, a mustard-colored scarf of flax.
At Christie's, Boris Kustodiev's iconic 1923 painting "The Coachman" depicts a jolly Russian in a voluminous, bright-blue winter costume, arms out in a welcoming gesture.
There, I discovered status updates about his getting ready to go out drinking, as well as a link to his Flickr account where he had taken photos of himself in a soccer hooligan costume.
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But you may have to wait until the DVD releases to see an extra when Griffith and Schmid drop it like it's hot to Sir Mix-A-Lot's "Baby Got Back" in period costume during a ballroom scene.
Shopping for a killer costume pales in comparison to readying for a killer storm.
Elizabeth Galindo Roberts, a film costume designer in her 50s, moved to a new home in Carmichael, Calif.
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No prizes for guessing who, in that scenario, Mr Davies had in a T-Rex costume.
In that search, the ability to look great in the costume was a must.
Dressing in period costume is a key part of the annual Jane Austen Festival in Bath, where the writer lived from 1801 to 1806.
One employee who took time off for what he called a family illness was found in a time-stamped Facebook photo at a costume party, all decked out.
And this morning, when I received a video in my inbox of Stephen Colbert, testifying before a House Judiciary subcommittee on immigration in full conservative blowhard costume, the uneasiness settled right back in.
He was married in the traditional costume of a camel-rider (although his bride preferred white).
This month they were screened for some 300 people in focus groups--and for Busch's father, Chief Executive August Busch III, who will appear (sans monkey costume) in a spot.
One day Roland Emmerich will take a breather and give us a modest, thinly peopled costume drama in which, at the climax, somebody drops a teacup, but that day has not yet dawned.
As a regime it could help you forget most things - you venture into the icy night in swimming costume, psyche yourself up for a few minutes in a shallow outdoor hot-water pool on the dockside, run the 100m or so to the sea and then plunge in, screaming.
At his home station in Vicenza, Italy, he dresses in the costume to volunteer at a children's hospital.
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Now populated by a permanent workforce dressed in period costume, Skansen is part social experiment, part living museum.
Then she threw off her coat and displayed herself in a red-and-yellow costume.
In reality, a drawer full of costume jewelry, broken chains, errant earring backs and muddled memories may turn out to be next month's heating bill.
They promised to not smoke in costume, not use a camera, cellphone or iPad during the parade and to "use the little boy's or little girl's room" prior to getting into costume.
British explorer Lewis Gordon Pugh has swum across some of the most challenging stretches of icy water in the world, wearing only a swimming costume, hat and goggles.
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