Nac mac feagle to the child! The creatures are also in Carpe Jugulum, if he wants to follow their adventures further.
I have made 3 of the DNA scarves, and they are very nice. Only my own kids have ever noticed that they are the DNA spiral, which I figure says something about the level of education around here, rather than about my kids' ability to appreciate the eccentric things their mother is likely to do.
One of the wee free men? Oh how excellent 
Red hair and beard and all? Good Lord - he's right about the whiskey bottle, you know - but I can understand why you wouldn't want him to have one
So has he chosen which of the many nac mac feegle battle cries he'll adopt as his own?
What a great constume idea, though. Crivens!
my son's could commiserate with your child. one year, liam was a cossack (nobody got it) and 2 years ago sean was a cobra. everybody thought he was a green elephant. sigh. even with the fangs drawn on his chin. man-eating elephants? go figger. this year will be interesting. liam is going to be a ring wraith (i'm waiting for dementor or grim reaper comments) except i've found him the most delicious sword that is gunmetal grey with a red "stone" in the pommel that i'm going to some how rig to his hip (so the cloak still flows) and ig ot him skeleton gloves, and i'm putting silver tips on his dress shoes. hope that works, lol.
I was Lydia Bennett this year, in my full Regency fig. None of my students had heard of her or read Pride and Prejudice. A few of the teachers and some of the students I don't teach had, and were amused at the breaches of Regency decorum I'd included in my costume to make the point that I was a fallen woman.
The obscure costumes are always more fun.
The choices for Halloween costumes are clear. You can pick a figure that everyone will easily recognize, or you can pick a figure that everyone will assume is a bad rendition of something that everyone will easily recognize.
Carl
My eldest daughter designed her own costume this year, with no relevance to anything out of her own head. She wore a bright canary yellow satin dress, trimmed with swansdown, with swansdown accessories; I had to make it. Tiffany would have been easier.
My son went as his character from an online medieval game in which you design your own user--nobody knew who he was, either.
Thank God I can put the sewing machine away until next year.
Liz
I am slow to read and comment, but that DNA is so cute. I think it's going to be a while before my knitting skills are up to the challenge.
Here's what I've learned by the way: mittens are so so so much easier in the round than in the flat. I frogged the whole thing and started over in the round and hurray. Will blog about it once I make a little more progress.
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