09/30/2006: 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.
Discussion Thread: 126 comments
Beer?! >:O Matt this is not very halloweeny.
MEH.
Sorry for the criticism.
First post!
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Fierce Almond @ 09/30/2006 12:55 AM EDT
I’ll be good! I like beer!
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gramsci @ 09/30/2006 12:56 AM EDT
Beer can be pretty halloweeny if you give it a chance, Fierce Almond.
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Kris @ 09/30/2006 12:58 AM EDT
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.
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Fierce Almond @ 09/30/2006 12:59 AM EDT
Oh I like beer, but I only like Killian’s and I can’t drink it because I’m 15.
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Fierce Almond @ 09/30/2006 1:00 AM EDT
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.
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Cotter @ 09/30/2006 1:01 AM EDT
Yeah, there will be. I’ll come up with one this weekend. 
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Matt @ 09/30/2006 1:03 AM EDT
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.
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JLAJRC @ 09/30/2006 1:14 AM EDT
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!!
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Mars @ 09/30/2006 1:19 AM EDT
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?
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Cotter @ 09/30/2006 1:22 AM EDT
And before I go;
Bring in the 80s Halloween ads and trailers!
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Cotter @ 09/30/2006 1:24 AM EDT
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.)
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Heather @ 09/30/2006 1:26 AM EDT
Wooooooo!
Beer + halloween = another Elm Street sequel!
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Roadblock @ 09/30/2006 1:31 AM EDT
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!
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.
Beer and Halloween candy is a bad idea, though. But both are good seperately.
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Todd @ 09/30/2006 2:25 AM EDT
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?!?!
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.
FM
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Fungusmungus @ 09/30/2006 5:17 AM EDT
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.
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MissJess @ 09/30/2006 8:26 AM EDT
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!
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Muppet Baby @ 09/30/2006 8:35 AM EDT
Sam Adams Octoberfest beer rocks! I enjoyed it muchly.
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Jeff Mack @ 09/30/2006 9:06 AM EDT
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.
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.
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The Yeti @ 09/30/2006 9:30 AM EDT
“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.
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Katherine @ 09/30/2006 10:43 AM EDT
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.
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Old E @ 09/30/2006 10:50 AM EDT
Yeti: Just buy the fabric. Red and green plaid fabric is like uber-cheap. Just buy a long enough piece to wrap around you in the form of a kilt. Add a black leather belt and a slit up the side with some buttons maybe and you have your kilt for like 5-10 bucks.
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Old E @ 09/30/2006 11:03 AM EDT
Wooh!
Shit yeah. Beer!
I love the good old US of A for it’s love of making _everything_ holiday themed.
But alas i’m in the UK for halloween this year. And i’m not quite sure whether i’m going to see Halloween beer. They have all the big boys of the States, Bud, Coors, Corona, Miller, everything else you can name, but so far not seen any Halloween themes for the beer. The candies and chips have got it, but no beer so far, i can hope though.
If not i’ll just buy a few cases of bud and slap a pumpkin sticker on each bottle, no one at the party will be any wiser 
And yeah also looking forward to a competition, and i keep menaing to e-mail you but maybe i can get you to read this save me the trouble. [b]MATT[/b] where is the AOD review for cryin out loud! Plan that into your countdown or thank your lucky stars there’ll be some angry people who been waiting years on it lol.
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Dan @ 09/30/2006 11:27 AM EDT
Ah crap, i’m too used to using UBB coding i forgot it was html.
Ahem…
MATT! There we go. Read above lol.
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Dan @ 09/30/2006 11:28 AM EDT
The hell? How many other states have such puritanical laws? I knew Utah had some weird ones but given the LDS population it makes sense. Thank goodness for California. Booze, abortions and medical marijuana for all!
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squee4242 @ 09/30/2006 11:32 AM EDT
It does sound like a Puritanical law? But it kinda works the opposite. We have liquor stores EVERYWHERE, my town has one small food store that could barely be considered a market, never mind a supermarket, but we have two decent-sized liquor stores (and two fairly small ones).
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Katherine @ 09/30/2006 11:57 AM EDT
Same in PA, liquor stores (”state stores”) abound. I was baffled to walk into a Maine supermarket one day and see they had a liquor aisle.
I must be the only man on Earth who doesn’t like beer. Tastes like mouthwash to me. I should try a wine cooler or one of those mixed drinks sometime.
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JLAJRC @ 09/30/2006 1:12 PM EDT
Magic Hat makes a halloween beer ASSORTMENT. Sam Adams sucks. I haven’t tried the magic hat yet but it’s called night of the living dead and that’s cool enough for me. With tastes like circus boy, jinx, and the mystery beer, it’s truly the jones soda of beer. Until something better comes along at least.
Click my name to check out the website, complete with creepy music and build a skeleton mini game!
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Travis @ 09/30/2006 1:20 PM EDT
Was there some kind of plural zone shenanigans last night? Me and the Colonel were up to at least a quarter til 3 and this was NOT here. Refreshed a million times, too!!
Oh well, whatever. It’s here now. I spent the night perusing YouTube found some awesome stuff. My Chem doing all I want for Christmas is You. Take that Mariah!!!!!
But mainly it was many many viewings of their perfomance of Dead! at the Reading festival. Good times. It’s on my myspace page now if anyone is interested.
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K- @ 09/30/2006 1:44 PM EDT
Yeah this totally wasn’t here last night.
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Hotblack Desiato @ 09/30/2006 1:45 PM EDT
Ichabod Ale!
When you’re talking about Halloween and Beer, how can you miss all the assorted Pumpkin Ales that come out in the fall?
I can always tell its time to get excited about Halloween when I see the pumpkin ale at the grocery store.
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def. @ 09/30/2006 3:09 PM EDT
Ya, I’m one who doesn’t like booze either, but I like all the stuff like advertising blitzes that go with it, just not drinking it & getting drunk. Overrated.
Also, supermarkets around here have killed 2 birds with one stone by selling packs of ping pong balls in the beer section.
Elvira has DVDs of “Movie Macabre” out this season. It was the syndicated show that first brought her fame. If you only know her outside of MM, then turn in your Hallowe’en badge right now. MM and MST3K are prerequisites if you want to be snarky at the movies.
broomstickjockey, according to my All Saints’ Day Sense, and the handful of cards from back then, you are thinking of Coca-Cola’s “MONSTERS OF THE GRIDIRON” promotion. (Not to be confused with EA’s Mutant League Football.)
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kingklash @ 09/30/2006 4:52 PM EDT
“Halloween/Beer Success #1: Supermarket Displays
When you go the supermarket, there will be beer. That’s a year-round fact.”
Not where I live! No beer in supermarkets here, I think province-wide. I know it’s not Canada-wide, because you can buy alcohol at supermarkets in Alberta (which I always thought was really weird as a kid when I’d visit my grandparents there) and probably in Quebec, but I dunno about everywhere else.
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Evin @ 09/30/2006 5:39 PM EDT
Yeah, I picked up a couple of the Elvira Movie Macabre DVDs at Wal-Mart for like $10 or so. I love Elvira so much. I’m still amazed at how she manages to keep her ta-tas in place.
I don’t like beer because I’m one of those people that thinks it all tastes like piss, but I got some locally made fresh apple cider! Mmmmm… cider!
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Mystie @ 09/30/2006 5:40 PM EDT
‘Never been a fan of beer either, but the Halloween-themed promos are pretty damn cool. Nice to see the Cryptkeeper come out of his grave to promot Bud Light, too.
Heh, great article, as always. Liked the conversation between Elvira and the Crypt Keeper.
Anyhoo, I’d hate to use this blog as my own personal whine-fest, but, uh, I’m gonna use this blog as my own personal whine-fest.
You see, it all started when I entered this one pirate-making contest at this one message board I frequent. I thought it was going to be all well and good, and that I’d be able to finish it up on time. But I haven’t exactly been working on it too hard, and the next thing I know, it’s the day of the deadline and I haven’t even filled out half of what I’m supposed to put in. Now I’m working double time in order to finish my pirate on time. *sigh* Oh, well, I really only have myself to blame.
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Healy @ 09/30/2006 6:18 PM EDT
So, did my last comment disappear into the oblivion that is the approval queue because of the link attached, or because Matt has added this variant of my name to the LIST too?
We’ll find out, if this comment doesn’t post
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K- @ 09/30/2006 6:29 PM EDT
The Yeti - try searching for women’s plaid skirts too. If you’ve got manly sized hips, just be sure to get a large enough size (any women’s clothing site has a sizing chart if you need help). Also, stay away from the ones made for Halloween costumes and more toward school girl uniforms, the costumes tend to be pretty short…also, the suggestion to make one was pretty good, if you can sew.
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Mara @ 09/30/2006 7:00 PM EDT
Now, I’m not a beer drinker… SCOTCH AND BOURBON WHISKY, HELLS YEAH! Beer… eh…don’t care for it.
When I was in high school and college we’d drink it thru a funnel. That’s gonna be the only way I’ll ever do so again.
Anyway, When I lived in New York (Long Island mostly, then upstate NY) there were beer displays as far as the eye could see.
VERY elaborate ones, much like you describe.
But, I have since moved to the Pocono’s of Pennsylvania (which is cool because it sounds like TRANSYLVANIA), and they DON’T SELL BEER (or any alchohol) in grocey stores.
For BEER, you have to go to a BAR and buy some “to go”. Or you go to a beer distributor.
For other forms of sweet, sweet booze you have to go to a state-sanctioned liquor store.
It’s all kinds of messed-up.
Now, even though I don’t drink beer, I will buy ANYTHING that ELVIRA is hawking.
I LOVES me the Elvira.
One of my friends knows her (and has worked with her in the past) and I’ll always regret never asking him to bring me along when he would go to her house for work or to hang out.
I just didn’t think I should ask.
It wouldn’t be cool.
But it WOULD have been cool for him to OFFER.
Damn it.
Now I HATE that guy.
~P~
P-TOR
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P-TOR @ 09/30/2006 7:27 PM EDT
Well look at that my original post FINALLY showed up. Welcome home, Matt. Are we getting an SNT tonight? Or does this count? I like to know when to start talking about REALLY irrelevant stuff
XOXO
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K- @ 09/30/2006 7:34 PM EDT
I think we’ll keep this one as the SNT this week.
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Matt @ 09/30/2006 8:10 PM EDT
Yay SNT! Yay talking about really irrelevant stuff!
^_^
I’m excited this week because I’ve got a check in the mail from the CEO of Zern’s. Apparently she found the article I wrote about Zern’s a while back and is totally in love with my work. A bunch of my photos are going to be featured in the 2007 Zern’s calendar and I’m going to be doing some cool projects and PR stuff for them. And I’m getting an allowance for gas and rounds of TMNT pinball! I’m sooooo excited!!!!
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Mystie @ 09/30/2006 8:45 PM EDT
I hate beer and don’t handle liquor in general well. Plus, regular grocery stores in New Jersey don’t sell beer unless they have a special liquor store section (like the last grocery store I worked at in North Cape May). Anyway, I think a lot of the reason you see so many beer displays at this time of year probably has to do with football season…although Halloween parties may factor in somewhere.
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starwenn @ 09/30/2006 9:10 PM EDT
Here we have only beer/wine/liquor in stores selling only those things. But each town decides whether they have a city municipal store or if they can be privately owned. If they can be privately owned, the grocery stores have a store attached to them. Not having it in the grocery store doesn’t bug me. I used to work in one in WA state. I had to deal with telling drunk people it was illegal to sell them beer and the really drunk ones would sit and argue with you while all you want to do is ring up the groceries of the lady standing behind them.
I, also have never developed a taste for beer. I love wine. Vodka loves me. Happy SNT! (hey, poem!)
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kb @ 09/30/2006 9:20 PM EDT
hey Mystie!!! I love stories about people getting noticed for their skills from their blog/site and getting a job out of it!! Now only if someone would do that with me…hmmm…
Can we see the page with the photos on it? And if it’s not too nosey how much was the check in the mail for?
And I am basically quitting my job. I am supposed to get a 200 dollar bonus for working 3 months that I am getting next week so I am working until I get that and then I am out of there. I have 2 job interviews already lined up for more money then this job and it’s just their expectations are too high so I would eventually get fired so it’s the prinicpal of it. I don’t want to get fired eventually for not going fast enough with the calls (it’s a call center, they have a really fast hold time that I decided that is impossible for me to do without being a total jackass and cutting people off and hanging up on them) so I called in sick on friday, this was my day off, and I think I have to call in sick tomorrow. I am so tired, emotionally tired, physically tired.
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Goob @ 09/30/2006 9:32 PM EDT
Viva SNT!
Mystie, that is really awesome. Congrats!
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squee4242 @ 09/30/2006 9:33 PM EDT
Mystie - congratulations! You’re living the blogger’s dream, you lucky girl.
It’s saturday night. And I’m feeling alright. I’ve got the house locked up tight, because it’s all mine tonight.
So yeah, this week was long. But doing nothing requiring effort on my part for 24 hours has made the twice-baked death feeling cease. But bringing back the sadness is remembering that I too live in the Poconos of Transylpennsylvania, and deprived of fancy beer displays. Bringing things back to where they were is this XE article, and what looks like a 13-0 Mets victory.
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Spruce @ 09/30/2006 9:38 PM EDT
KINGKLASH!!!
You rock my socks!!! I’ve been looking for information on Monster of the Gridiron FOREVER, but I didn’t know the name. Thank you so much!!
KINGKLASH!!!
You rock my socks!!! I’ve been looking for information on Monsters of the Gridiron FOREVER, but I didn’t know the name or who did the promo. Thank you so much!!
Yeah, no booze in Delaware’s grocery stores either. Although we don’t have the added suckiness of state-owned liquor stores. And I can’t ever move, because most other states have sales tax on stuff. Fuck THAT.
The local mini-chain of Iron Hill Brewery restaurants makes a pumpkin ale this time of year too. I don’t like beer, but the food is great and you can see all the beer tanks and kettles and whatnot through a glass wall. Not that beer does anything exciting while it’s being made.
Today I went and got some delicious pumpkin ice cream from the local dairy farm, and it couldn’t taste any better if Satan himself had made it. Woohoo Halloween!
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Welsh Rabbit @ 09/30/2006 10:39 PM EDT
Went to Target today and had a Pitch Black Icee. Consider me underwhelmed. I think I prefer my drinks more slushie than icee.
Also bought all of the Halloween Jones Sodas (minus candy corn, blech). Can’t wait to try them. Wish they brought back Strawberry Slime.
They had some cool but expensive stuff in the Halloween section, mostly of the animatronic variety.
But I was kind of depressed that they also had Christmas stuff out, too. There’s no doubt in my mind the Halloween aisle is gonna disappear before Halloween.
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JLAJRC @ 09/30/2006 11:26 PM EDT
K- Can i just ask..seen as this is now SNT.
On the 9/25 in reply to me asking why you should jump on the matrix reference you quoted…
“Apparently you don’t know me as well as you think you do, my dear boy”
When did i say i knew you well? I never said i knew you at all.
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Dan @ 09/30/2006 11:48 PM EDT
Dan, you’re putting way too much thought into it. Honestly.
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K- @ 09/30/2006 11:53 PM EDT
Has anyone heard/watched Mannhiem Steamroller’s Monster Mash Video/song? Whoa is that guys voice disturbing (the anti-Nate Dogg).
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Ranger Joe @ 09/30/2006 11:57 PM EDT
I was just wondering that’s all.
Plus i’ve been drinking tonight lol. Just got home and watched Nightmare on elm st 1st.
So, um, blame that.
And yes, i edited this a few time for spelling.
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Dan @ 10/01/2006 12:05 AM EDT
To clarify, I typically jump on excuses to talk about the Matrix. You made a Matrix reference, therefore there was a greater than 0 probability that I would use it as a springboard. I chose not to. It had nothing to do with you specifically just any Matrix reference of any kind.
You saying that you didn’t expect me to jump on anything, only demonstrated that you weren’t aware of my proclivities. That’s not a bad thing, it’s not anything at all. So I just lifted your “dear” usage and basically commented on that fact in a way I am prone to do (i.e., silly/nonsensically/dare I say wiseass-edly).
If you’ve taken more than a second to think about anything I’ve said, you’re thinking too much. I sincerely apologize for any confusion.
Relax and enjoy the SNT
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K- @ 10/01/2006 12:11 AM EDT
I love how if nothing much is happening Mystie is a favorite topic. (Congratulations!)
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Katherine @ 10/01/2006 12:14 AM EDT
Don’t worry about it.
I’m relaxed. To be honest i only made it through 3/4 of Nightmare on Elm st, just isn’t the same as it was when i was a kid.
But hearing your explation for the Matrix shiskabak helped. Thought it was some sort of personal vendetta about me at first, yeah i’m slightly paranoid lol.
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Dan @ 10/01/2006 12:16 AM EDT
Anyone watch the season premire of SNL?
Besides Dane Cook’s monologue…wow. It was actually Funny?!?
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Invader Norbert @ 10/01/2006 12:54 AM EDT
Pretending Naruto games are good is like pretending Dane Cook is funny. Stop deluding yourself, people!!!
–Adam Sessler
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K- @ 10/01/2006 1:29 AM EDT
mouse wheel is broken
someone snoring woke me up
this week really sucks
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dohopoki @ 10/01/2006 1:59 AM EDT
on sunday morning
unofficial snt
nobody’s around
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Spoodles @ 10/01/2006 10:16 AM EDT
I’m around, playing Maroon 5 and Elton John songs on the radio at 7:45am, while pretending to be excited this early in the morning. I wish I had something productive to add to this convo.. but um yeah guess I don’t.
Oh yeah.. I live in Cali and love having beer displays in grocery stores, drug stores, liquor stores obviously. I can’t imagine not having them. I used to work in a drug store and sold beer along with tampons and never even thought about it. You poor states with state sanctioned alchohol rules.
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dj lisas @ 10/01/2006 10:50 AM EDT
I have to say, I Pennsylvania’s way of selling alcohol is a pain in the ass. Not being able to go to a convenient grocery store or gas station and get beer sucks. Plus I bet it’s uber-expensive, since SOMEBODY has to pay to keep the lights on, to rent the building, and pay the clerk.
On the flip side, I bet the selection is better than here in Idaho. I’m originally from Kansas, and out there we sell beer in grocery stores AND liquor stores. The selection at the grocery stores in both states is similar- you can get Bud, Coors, Corona, Rolling Rock, Miller, etc. and 4 or 5 “microbrews” that can be found all over the parts of the country I’ve been to. Also, you can get a few “imports” like Heineken and Beck’s. Back home, if you wanted a real selection, you went to a liquor store.
Here in Idaho, they split it up. You go to a liquor store for hard stuff, and a grocery store or gas station for beer. The selection at the grocery stores is paltry at best. Plus, I think it’s all 3-2 beer; at least it seems like I can drink more of it.
I guess what really upsets me is that my two favorite beers are unavailable in Idaho. I can drive a couple of hours and get Warsteiner in Wyoming, but I can’t get my hands on Honey Brown ANYWHERE out here.
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spaz307 @ 10/01/2006 10:55 AM EDT
Awesome article. Pumpkin beer and Halloween a party does make. Check out Post Road Pumpkin Ale, it’s seriously the best mid-range Halloweenish beer you can pick up.
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fango @ 10/01/2006 11:45 AM EDT
Though it’s still early
I see there are folks around
Sunday Morning Thread
Booze in every store
Though BevMo is hard to beat
Any brand you want
(Seriously, I can’t even go into that place without wanting to spend hundreds of $$$ on fancy hooch)
Mystie caught a break
It’s been a long time coming
But it’s well deserved
Did anyone else
Watch the Lost clip show this week?
Clever narrator
Someone should stop me
Because I’ll do this all day
And that would be lame
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squee4242 @ 10/01/2006 12:46 PM EDT
Heh heh. I still have a Bud Kepper my dad got from a bar. I still put him out on Halloween as well.
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Jinx Mesmer @ 10/01/2006 12:46 PM EDT
I’m so having SLC Punk flashbacks with all this beer talk. And of course Jon Favreau looking his most Adam Duritz, picking his nose in a parking lot somewhere…
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K- @ 10/01/2006 1:11 PM EDT
I second the mention of Post Road Pumpkin Ale. It’s halloweeny-good. Actually, it’s kind of like pumpkin pie in a bottle. But it’s good, good stuff.
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Jack Gladney @ 10/01/2006 1:39 PM EDT
I love how if nothing much is happening Mystie is a favorite topic.
Even online I have a commanding presence.
It’s kind of sad considering how pathetic of a life I have, but there’s always some kind of crazy shit going down.
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Mystie @ 10/01/2006 2:50 PM EDT
May I just say that the Cryptkeeper pwned Elvira. And all he had to do was employ my very own fighting style. Forget the logic of any argument and insult your opponent at every turn.
Ron White School of Debate, Class of ‘82
Ad Hominem representin’!!!
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K- @ 10/01/2006 3:43 PM EDT
My neighbor had one of those Elvira cut-outs back in ‘87. I thought it was the coolest thing ever (and I was also 6 at the time). When I was younger I was under the impression that ONLY supermarkets could have displays like that in their posession so if you were able to obtain one you were a god, or something like that…
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phunqsauce @ 10/01/2006 4:06 PM EDT
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dohopoki @ 10/01/2006 4:12 PM EDT
E! True Hollywood Story tonite is on The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Scarface. Thought I’d tell anyone since I don’t know when the new blog is popping up.
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JLAJRC @ 10/01/2006 5:43 PM EDT
The next entry will probably pop up a lot later now that you told me that. Good going.
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Matt @ 10/01/2006 5:47 PM EDT
Hides in a corner to hide from potential angry bloggers.
Besides, Chainsaw Charlie could beat up Leatherface.
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JLAJRC @ 10/01/2006 6:13 PM EDT
Washington state, as kb state above, also has the state-run liquor stores. Ours is by the courthouse, which tickles me to no end. We sell beer and wine in the supermarkets though. I don’t drink either, so it’s a moot point to me, though I am on the lookout for that Halloween wine that came out a few years back (Fang? Blood? Something like that). I could use it, sealed, as a decoration.
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LemonWitch @ 10/01/2006 7:56 PM EDT
Spaz- I live in Idaho too and boy am I dissapointed in the beer selection here. I have not been able to find Magic Hat, or Pete’s wicked, and I even have a tough time locating the Sam Adams seasonals….and I’ve never seen Cherry Wheat either. It makes me mad. I grew up in Rhode Island where you can get all of that and more. I also think it’s hysterical that the liquor stores around here are actually named “The Liquor Store”. Wow, I really am bored.
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MissJess @ 10/01/2006 8:49 PM EDT
MissJess, are you close to the Idaho/Washington border? I know I’ve seen at least Pete’s Wicked in the grocery stores. Or if you’re close to Montana I’m SURE there’s decent beer there.
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LemonWitch @ 10/01/2006 9:40 PM EDT
I dunno why I felt obligated to say this but I was just thinking about Dracula: Dead and Loving It just now and fell out of the chair laughing….In my opinion NOT one of Mel Brooks’ better films but its good for pure cheese…and i’m a one cheesy motherfucker….as Chester Cheetah said “its not easy being cheesy….”
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phunqsauce @ 10/01/2006 10:52 PM EDT
I liked the airplane security part and the cubicle fight short, but besides that it wasn’t much to be excited about. What is it about Dane Cook that people like about him anyway? :/
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mjf7583 @ 10/01/2006 11:04 PM EDT
I make occasional (like every other month) beer runs to Jackson, WY. It’s about two hours away. Does that mean I’m an alcoholic or a connoisseur?
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spaz307 @ 10/01/2006 11:16 PM EDT
I laughed at Dane’s Comedy Central Presents… but since then it’s kinda declined. Plus, it’s too easy to agree with Adam. That’s Adam’s job, to buck the crowd, go against the masses. He even did the first Irwin joke that I saw televised. I could be very wrong on that, don’t quote me. It was the first one I saw anyway.
I have a friend who’s a huge Dane fan, and I haven’t came out of the Dane-hatin’ closet yet. Gonna have to eventually. I am NOT going to see Employee of the Month with him, I can tell you that much.
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K- @ 10/01/2006 11:34 PM EDT
K, I know exactly what you mean. I remember a few years ago, telling people I saw a really funny guy do 10 minutes on a Comedy Central special. I thought his name was “Dave something” and I kept saying everyone should check him out. Then I had some kind of mental switch this year, and now I and everyone I know seems to be kinda over him. It’s weird, to have everyone stop being fans of someone all at once. I don’t hate him exactly, but something made me stop liking him. I think the trainwreck of HBO’s “Tourgasm” played a part.
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Welsh Rabbit @ 10/01/2006 11:56 PM EDT
LemonWitch- Unfortunately, I live in Southern Idaho. It seems to be the land of Coors and Bud here. This is not to say that I can’t find perfectly acceptable beer here….I just miss my favorites.
Spaz- That doesn’t make you an alcoholic at all. If you were an alcoholic, you’d either be driving the 2 hours at least once a week, or you’d go to meetings.
I’m a big Dane fan myself. I was actually in the audience at his HBO special and I’ve watched it several times since it aired. That being said, I refuse to go see Employee of the Month…it just doesn’t look that good. Plus, there’s the whole having to sit thru a movie with Jessica Simpson in it. This insomnia thing is for the birds. I’m over it.
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MissJess @ 10/02/2006 4:25 AM EDT
Yeah, the opus of self indulgence and boredom inducement that was Tourgasm didn’t do Cook any favors. His material’s still funny though.
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squee4242 @ 10/02/2006 9:48 AM EDT
All right, folks. You think it’s convenient to buy beer at a grocery store? Obviously y’all haven’t spent much time in the South. There’s nothing like going into your local Exxon On-the-Run and buying a single 16 ounce bottle of Bud for the ride home. Talk about culture shock. Growing up in PA with the Blue Laws (as in no booze sold on Sunday, hard liquor sold by the state at special liquor stores, no grain sold within 20 miles of a college campus), it was very shocking to me, when I was stuck in VA for three days with a blow-out engine, to be able to buy a single bottle of beer. And really cheap smokes.
Beer’s nice and all, but nothing says Fall/Autumn/Halloween like hard cider to me. Give me a nice bottle of Wood Pecker Cider, or the stuff McGillan’s brews themselves down in Philadelphia, and I’m well on my way to a happy drunk.
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LemurCat @ 10/02/2006 10:04 AM EDT
Late Congrats, Mystie! Awesome.
In Quebec, you can buy beer and wine and wine coolers at any gas station or supermarket- VERY convienient, especially when road-tripping. Now I live in New Brunswick again, and I always ALWAYS forget that you have to go to the damn licqour store to get booze- it sucks when you can’t just pick up alcohol along with your groceries.
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Muppet Baby @ 10/02/2006 10:18 AM EDT
Oh yeah, forgot to ask, anybody watch the premiere of Dexter last night (on Showtime, about a forensics analyst/serial killer)? Very well acted, creepy and violent, right up our collective alleys. They followed it up with Joe Dante’s (Gremlins) Masters of Horror, which is on again tomorrow if anyone wants to catch it.
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squee4242 @ 10/02/2006 10:50 AM EDT
Halloween/Beer Success #4: “Beer” rhymes with “FEAR.”
All this talk of beer/liquor sales makes me long for the days I lived in New Orleans. Nothing like having people hand you open containers of alcohol while you sit in your car waiting to pull into traffic. Made up for the fact it was frozen and weak.
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Chyrie @ 10/02/2006 11:44 AM EDT
I remember awhile back, there was a tie in with Budweiser and Rocky Horror I want to say around 1995, like mid 90s…..basically there just promotional stuff like hats, etc. and I saw one neighborhood bar with the lips logo on little flags and stufff hanging outside. And that was about it…it stunk…
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Melissa Y @ 10/02/2006 12:38 PM EDT
Mystie is the Goddess of the Weekend.
If, for any reason she is unable to fulfill her duties, Goob will have to rule with an iron fist.
Welcome to October, citizens.
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kingklash @ 10/02/2006 12:43 PM EDT
Not sure if anyone here cares about it, but the Twins are the divisions champs, yay!
(and congrats Mystie)
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kb @ 10/02/2006 12:58 PM EDT
Holy shit, it’s already the 2nd of October? I totally missed that shit. But that means tomorrow is BOTH Little Mermaid AND McDonald’s Monopoly day! I don’t know what it is about peeling off little Monopoly stickers from Chicken Sandwiches and Large Cokes that gets me so worked up. This year they’ve implemented some online stuff that looks like you can even chose a gamepiece and roll dice for prizes. Heh, the back of my car will soon be a graveyard of used McDonald’s cups.
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Mystie @ 10/02/2006 1:28 PM EDT
I was a Dane “Comedy Central Presents” fan once upon a time, but that changed once (a) I saw him in person at the Improv and he waxed poetic about being ridiculously drunk for almost the entire time. Dude, it’s funny, just not *that* funny. (b) Last time he was on SNL he did a “I have a super huge penis joke” and this time he did a “suicide is funny” joke. Someone needs to screen his material and let him know: it’s not working anymore!!
I am (*ashamed*) a Jessica SImpson fan so I will probably see the new flick. It will definitely be a renter, though. No way am I choking up 8 bucks to see it in theaters.
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purplegirl247 @ 10/02/2006 2:18 PM EDT
I wish it were November 2nd.
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dohopoki @ 10/02/2006 2:19 PM EDT
The Smuttynose Pumpkin Ale is pretty good. I have to agree with LemurCat, however, that cider says Halloween to me more than beer. Grocery store brand is fine, but for extra sugary, go for the Starbucks hot cider with caramel and whipped cream, and for something fancy try the Etienne Dupont organic hard cider brewed in Normandy. It tastes great and makes you feel all fancy n’ shit.
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Da Nator @ 10/02/2006 2:54 PM EDT
I love Dane Cook. But I probably haven’t been exposed to him as much as everyone else because I haven’t had tv in 4 months, and so I haven’t been overexposed to things as much as other people. Everytime a car alarm goes off I think of him. And I downloaded his album (revelation) and I had my sister listen to part of it. She found him on youtube (not knowing what he looked like, she remembered his voice and saw his name) and she told me the next day, OMG HE’S SO HOT!! I just rolled my eyes and said yeah. So everytime I meantion Dane Cook she goes OMG HE’S SO HOT lol it’s funny. But she’s such a skanky hosebag she like wants to do everybody. Is that the word/phrase of the day? And another thing about my sister, I told her a story about my cousin saying that his teacher looked like a garbage truck and everytime she walked by he thought he would hear a beeping noise but didn’t, so one time she was walking by he said “beep beep beep” and his friends chuckled while the teacher just glared at him (he always had problems with that teacher because of him being the class clown and she had a janet reno type of build and she was pregnant) Anyway my sister everytime she talks to me now she acts like she’s backing up and she says “beep beep beep” My sister has some weightage lol and can easily make fun of herself. That is the only thing I am going to miss moving out of here, joking around with her and my best friend. Everything else sucks, and is too much stress. ’sigh’ hey why do I act like this is a confessional or something.
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Goob @ 10/02/2006 2:55 PM EDT
As I hovered over my Favorites link to this site I noticed a message showing “X-Entertainment died.” I could swear I had seen different ones before, but wasn’t sure. Are these changed daily? I like it when there is “more than meets the eye” on a web page.
On a side note, Dustin Diamond came to Matrix, a club near my place of emplyment. I totally got shitfaced drunk with Screech from Saved by the Bell. All was going smashingly until by friend broke out his digital camera. Apparently Screech did not want to have pictures taken while he was three sheets to the wind and got up and left the promotion. So, of course, we followed him down the street shouting “screech, screech, screech” Man, I love messing with celebrities, even if they aren’t REAL ones.
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Old E @ 10/02/2006 3:10 PM EDT
they’re changed ofyen old e. more often recently than they used to be it seems
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dohopoki @ 10/02/2006 4:10 PM EDT
FELLOW X-E’RS, I REQUEST YOUR HELP!
I JUST BOUGHT a “grow-a-severed limb” water growing thing like the gremlins one’s matt did an article about, i wanted to send him the pics or upload to the blog! snyone wanna help a brother???
Peace
Hoss!
http://www.imageshack.us
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dohopoki @ 10/02/2006 4:27 PM EDT
Also of nopte, my birthday is on Friday. I love having an October birthday. I always go to “Phantom Fright Nights” here in PA at Kennywood Park. There are hundreds of people dressed up like assorted evil things trying to scare the bejesus out of you whilst you are wandering around a an amusement park turned into hell on earth. The even ride the scariest coaster backwards and with no lights. I can’t wait.
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Old E @ 10/02/2006 4:57 PM EDT
Just watched the Cook SNL monologue. The YouTube stuff was funny because well YouTube is my current obsession. The rest resembled Ben Affleck flailing his way through Surviving Christmas, except not funny.
And then he let me know that Brandon Flowers was in the building. That episode by definition is the the epidemy of evil as defined currently in my head.
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K- @ 10/02/2006 5:37 PM EDT
Wow. You ever constantly use a monitor that’s 10+ years old and then go out and buy a brand new LCD flatscreen?
Man…. shit is bright. Have things always been this bright? Woah…. I’m actually seeing stuff instead of dull blotches everywhere. This is great!
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Mystie @ 10/02/2006 6:10 PM EDT
Old E- So how do you feel about this Dustin Diamond porno thing? I can’t think about it too much, because it makes me want to puke up meals I haven’t even eaten yet.
Mystie- Also, they have the internet in color now.
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Welsh Rabbit @ 10/02/2006 7:00 PM EDT
I believe it after the other night. Girls were ALL OVER Screech. If people make Scat movies… I can definitely see a Screech Porno being a better alternative.
Also ALAS!!! I have finished the damned M&M puzzle. There goes a day of my life I will never get back.
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Old E @ 10/02/2006 7:56 PM EDT
…. but the Screech porno did have scat in it.
http://www.urbandictionary.com...irty+Screech&defid=2003033
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Mystie @ 10/02/2006 8:06 PM EDT
Ah yes, the Dirty Sanchez… poor ass hole lost his house and he’s trying to get it back by shoving his fingers up women’s asses… oh Screech, you should have stuck with Lisa…
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Cotter @ 10/02/2006 8:50 PM EDT
Halloween beer! I was in Maine this weekend, and they had PUMPKIN ALE everywhere…
Oh, unrelated update: Maine is still owned by Pepsi.
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Sara Jane @ 10/02/2006 9:10 PM EDT
UGH! EWWW! How can you drink this stuff MATT?
I DO NOT like very dirty martinis! I just made one and my lord…I think I prefer moonshine to this! GACK! I feel like that weird cat that always said Gack! Was that from the comic strip…um…by Garry someone…I can’t remember the name but it had a penguin in it. I think…
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threebeesatdisney NOT A DIRTY MARTINI FAN! @ 10/02/2006 9:16 PM EDT
Thank god I like green olives! ‘Cuz now I have a huge jar of them! Maybe I will throw some on a Pumpkin face pizza. 
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threebeesatdisney @ 10/02/2006 9:20 PM EDT
That Screech story was hilarious! I would have had a drink with him too- I bet that guy is actually very depressed.
This weekend “The Trailer Park Boys Movie” hits theaters- this show has been huge in Canada for years now, and I predict this movie will make them hit it BIG in the USA. Go see it- it is hilarious shit!
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Muppet Baby @ 10/02/2006 9:32 PM EDT
Big in Canada, you say? Canada has yet to steer me wrong … Hey Muppet Baby, any word on a new season of The Tournament?
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LemurCat @ 10/03/2006 10:56 AM EDT
Bill the Cat. From “Bloom County” and “Outland”.
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kingklash @ 10/03/2006 12:07 PM EDT
kingklash Thanks. I couldn’t for the life of me remember the name of that comic strip…but I did remember the penguin name OPUS!
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threebeesatdisney @ 10/03/2006 10:29 PM EDT
Strangest Halloween Beer: Dogfish Head Punkin Ale! I found it by accident this past Saturday at a Shur-Save in Tobyhanna, PA. Tastes okay…
http://www.dogfish.com/brewing...l_Beers/Punkin_Ale/3/index.htm
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Ka @ 10/11/2006 11:53 AM EDT
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