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Halloween + Beer.

Better an hour or so past deadline than two hours or so past deadline. It's Saturday, I know, but let's consider this as Friday's Halloween Countdown entry, for organization's sake. It's a short, meandering ditty about Halloween's frequent team-ups with beer. I don't know.

Wow, I can't believe we're up to fifteen Countdown articles already. Time to go start preparing next week's batch of goodies. Be good, you.

Posted by Matt on 09/30/2006. E-mail me!

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Beer?! >:O Matt this is not very halloweeny.

MEH.

Sorry for the criticism.

First post!

Chestnuts roasted by Fierce Almond @ 09/30/2006 12:55 AM

I’ll be good! I like beer!

Chestnuts roasted by gramsci @ 09/30/2006 12:56 AM

Beer can be pretty halloweeny if you give it a chance, Fierce Almond.

Chestnuts roasted by Kris @ 09/30/2006 12:58 AM

Oh yes, and they spelled Oktoberfest with a C.

I will cry tonight over that one.

Why were Elvira and the Cryptkeeper so popular in the late 80s – mid 90s? I mean, yeah, The Cryptkeeper had his shows/movies, but Elvira? Why was she popular?

Oh right, I completely forgot… boobs.

Sorry for not including that in the first post.

Chestnuts roasted by Fierce Almond @ 09/30/2006 12:59 AM

Oh I like beer, but I only like Killian’s and I can’t drink it because I’m 15.

Chestnuts roasted by Fierce Almond @ 09/30/2006 1:00 AM

Matt,

Will there be another Halloween contest this year? And thank you for the orgasmic articles, they make me not need to take the happy pills anymore.

Chestnuts roasted by Cotter @ 09/30/2006 1:01 AM

Yeah, there will be. I’ll come up with one this weekend.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 09/30/2006 1:03 AM

The best part of this article was the song lyrics to Muppet Show episode. Screw Death Becomes Her.

Speaking of the Crypt-Keeper, in the latest Halloween edition of Wizard Magazine is an article on the Rise and Fall of EC Comics. They also have the scriest comic moments and the Halloween Costume winners. Grand Prize winner dressed in an AWESOME Optimus Prime and Megatron homemade costume.

Speaking of Macho and Elizbeth, they’re going to show the SNME Halloween episode from the 80s on WWE later on this month. Both are featured in it.

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 09/30/2006 1:14 AM

You win points for correctly calling Frankenstein’s Monster “Frankenstein’s Monster.” Yet these points are DEDUCTED because you completely forgot to drench the Cryptkeeper’s speech in bad morbid puns! Shame on you, or rather, SLAIN ON BOO!! AAAA-HA-HA-HA-HAAA!!

Chestnuts roasted by Mars @ 09/30/2006 1:19 AM

Great to hear it. And I also forgot to ask, what is the commercial you put a picture of in the article, and is there anyway I could watch it?

Chestnuts roasted by Cotter @ 09/30/2006 1:22 AM

And before I go;

Bring in the 80s Halloween ads and trailers!

Chestnuts roasted by Cotter @ 09/30/2006 1:24 AM

For those that dont think beer can be very Halloween-ish, check out Ship Yard’s Pumpkin Head Ale. Even if you dont like beer, the logo on the bottle is kick ass. (Ship Yard brewery is in Portland, Maine.)

Chestnuts roasted by Heather @ 09/30/2006 1:26 AM

Wooooooo!

Beer + halloween = another Elm Street sequel!

Chestnuts roasted by Roadblock @ 09/30/2006 1:31 AM

Awesomeeee! But was that seriously the only Halloween beer you could find? There is “Pumpkin Ale”, “Blue Moon Pumpkin Ale”, and, my personal favorite, “Shipyard Pumpkinhead Ale” just to name a couple of the spookified ales. Pumpkinhead rocks because it has a picture on it of a pretty menacing pumpkin monster on the label: http://www.ratebeer.com/beerimages/16927.jpg
You could also make the stretch and go for things like “Dead Guy Ale” with the awesome skeleton monster label. Central Market, Whole Foods, or Kroger should have most of those. Kicking back with haunted beer, kettle corn, and the Halloweentown 1&2 DVD.. nothing finer. Except Elvira. What a frigg’n babe!

Chestnuts roasted by Eddie Lightning Frog @ 09/30/2006 2:08 AM

I take a break from watching Tales from the Crypt:Season 3 Box-Set to get online — and I run into the Cryptkeeper on X-E, too! Now, I know I’m going to dream about that ugly sideshow freak/mummy hybrid.

Chestnuts roasted by Review the World @ 09/30/2006 2:10 AM

Beer and Halloween candy is a bad idea, though. But both are good seperately.

Chestnuts roasted by Todd @ 09/30/2006 2:25 AM

Hey, I idolized Elvira as a kid! In fact, I wrote a kind of tribute to her in my own tribute to the Halloween season (click my name if you have five minutes to kill).

So does this mean I am correct in assuming that the zombie football player campaign of the early/middle 90s was NOT beer based??? Why am I the only person who remembers this?!?!

Chestnuts roasted by broomstickjockey @ 09/30/2006 2:35 AM

Last year I drank too much while handing out candy. Fell out the door when some kids showed up. Then the mrs. took over door duty. Another sad story from me.
Most of my stories are drug or booze related. I must sound like a drunken junkie. Reality is: I drink like once a month. I just make it worth it.
Sam Adams Oktoberfest has become the fav ’round here. Will be drinking it while putting together PIZZA WITH A FACE later.

Chestnuts roasted by Fungusmungus @ 09/30/2006 5:17 AM

Sam Adams October fest is one of my favorite things about the fall. Out here in potato-land, the seasonal brews are hard to come by.

I remember always being delighted anytime Spuds was dressed in something other than a hawaiian shirt. I have always been strangely drawn to Elvira. Her uselessness intrigues and inspires me.

Chestnuts roasted by MissJess @ 09/30/2006 8:26 AM

Ah, Matt- I miss beer more than anything. Due to my stupid Crohn’s Disease and the 8,000 pills I take daily, I have not had a sip of the sweet sweet nectar since April 5th…I remember it like it was yesterday. I AM however, getting rip roaring drunk on my 25th birthday in November no matter what- I even warned my doctor in advance to be prepared to see me the next morning just in case!

Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 09/30/2006 8:35 AM

Sam Adams Octoberfest beer rocks! I enjoyed it muchly.

Chestnuts roasted by Jeff Mack @ 09/30/2006 9:06 AM

Pennsylvania doesn’t sell alcohol in grocery stores, so I’ve missed out on the displays. Not that I’m into beer anyway, but still. The mystique and all.

Last night I just watched the WCW episode when Miss Elizabeth makes the apology tape and Macho Man has to watch it. Pre-real-life divorce, post-WCW ‘divorce’, I think? I don’t know – it was pretty boring. Had I paid to come watch some hardcore action in the ring and got stuck with a stupid video of Miss Elizabeth sitting on a tree swing, I would have been pissed.

Chestnuts roasted by Jessica Marie @ 09/30/2006 9:19 AM

I got nothin’ but love for Elvira, but she shouldn’t be ragging on the Cryptkeeper’s “piece of flair”.

I’ve tried diligently over the past few days to cobble together the necessary elements for a “zombie Roddy Piper” costume, but it’s looking like it ain’t gonna happen. I found a cheap-ass “Hotrod” t-shirt on Ebay easily enough, but I’ve had a helluva time tracking down a cheap kilt. (By “cheap”, I mean something preferably under $20.) Thoroughly discouraged, I’ve decided to forego the whole “gimmick-zombie” idea and just be a straight zombie. I’m going to do it right, though: top-of-the-line makeup, prosthetic bite-mark on the neck, color contacts, the works. Halloween comes but once a year, so I see no problem with sacrificing the timely payment of my internet and cell-phone bills in order to look scary for one night.

Chestnuts roasted by The Yeti @ 09/30/2006 9:30 AM

“When you go the supermarket, there will be beer.”

…a fact I didn’t know until I was, I don’t know, fifteen. I live in Rhode Island. We don’t sell beer in supermarkets, here.

Chestnuts roasted by Katherine @ 09/30/2006 10:43 AM

Is it possible that maybe one of my blog posts could not be deleted. Anyways, I have been trying to say that Pete’s Wicked Ale is great. Try some for Halloween. It has a better taste than Octoberfest, and from my experience, is cheaper too.

Chestnuts roasted by Old E @ 09/30/2006 10:50 AM

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