riddle me this...

so about 10 years ago 'batman forever' came out which introduced jim carrey as the riddler dressed like this:

then, when i was in high school, i remember joe thoits dressing as the riddler one year for halloween. i always thought it was a great costume. this year i decided to at least pursue the idea and see if i could somehow pull it off. i did some web based research and found the riddler costume for about $250 which was a little more than i wanted to spend on a halloween costume. so i did a google search for full body spandex suits, which admittedly could have brought some scandalous results, but not nearly as many as anticipated. anyways, after searching through some junk, the chinese and ebay provided me with more or less what i was looking for, and for only $7.
granted, shipping was four times that amount, but i still felt it was a deal worth taking. so only 4 days later i received it in the mail. its pretty amazing. it is full body, as advertised. it was made for a woman that was between 5'10 and 6'2 so it stretched a bit and i had to cut off the fingers because they were too skinny for my hands. and no, this isnt on backwards. it has a zipper in the back that zips all the way up from the lower back to the top of the head. you can see through it, not well, but i suppose well enough if you were wanting to rob a liquor store or something.
anyways, it didnt have any question marks on it, so i went over to my friend becki's house and she suggested that the best thing to do would be just to paint them on. so we made a few stencils and bought some sharpies and began coloring. it actually took us 4 hours. by the end im pretty sure i had a contact high from inhaling sharpie scent for so long. my head hurt the whole rest of the night. but the question marks turned out surprisingly well.
add in some pink hair spray and some little mermaid glasses that i found at a cvc pharmacy and i think the costume turned out looking pretty good.

there were some obvious problems that needed to be dealt with whenever a guy puts on a full body spandex suit. not sure if i completely solved the problem, but i figured it was only for a night and not a permanent or daily outfit. here are some photos from the evening:

this is mindy, who painted on the majority of hte question marks, myself, zach, and becki, a real life troll doll.

here we are at a party in costa mesa. this is britney, one of zach's many ex-lovers. she is now dating another guy, only to try and make zach jealous though.
and here is dave (justin timberlake), zach (an urban cowboy), me, and our friend sean who was a creepy nudist guy. i thought my full body suit was bad, his was flesh colored. every time i saw him throughout the night i always did a double take. i would catch him out of the corner of my eye and think i saw a naked body running around. thankfully, it was just a fellow friend cruising around in a spandex suit. its nice to have added support from friends when wearing spandex.