http://clipmarks.com/clipper/Babe_ORiley/tag/beer/http://rss.clipmarks.com/clipper/Babe_ORiley/tag/beer/15Clip, tag and save information that's important to you. Bookmarks save entire pages...Clipmarks save the specific content that matters to you!en-ushttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/8C94CF05-50E0-456F-9740-A67658577BC7/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/Babe_ORiley/">Babe_ORiley</a><br><b>clipper's remarks:</b> well, he's certainly high on life....and death! <br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.mcall.com/news/custom/offbeat/sns-ap-odd-beer-coffin,0,2932325.story" title="http://www.mcall.com/news/custom/offbeat/sns-ap-odd-beer-coffin,0,2932325.story">www.mcall.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/Babe_ORiley/512/6DAD9528-1D8F-49DA-A5BE-F618C030E139.jpg" alt="Beer-can coffin" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>Glenwood village administrator Bill Bramanti had a coffin specially designed to look like a can of his favorite beer, Pabst Blue Ribbon, in Chicago Heights, Ill. Saturday, May 3, 2008. <SPAN>(<SPAN>Mary Compton, Associated Press</SPAN> / May 3, 2008)</SPAN></P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><SPAN>By Associated Press</SPAN></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P id="story-body">SOUTH CHICAGO HEIGHTS, Ill. - Bill Bramanti will love Pabst Blue Ribbon eternally, and he's got the custom-made beer-can casket to prove it. "I actually fit, because I got in here," said Bramanti of South <A id="PLGEO100100501260000" title="Chicago Heights" href="http://www.mcall.com/topic/us/illinois/cook-county/chicago-heights-PLGEO100100501260000.topic">Chicago Heights</A>.<BR /><BR />The 67-year-old <A id="PLGEO100100501560000" title="Glenwood" href="http://www.mcall.com/topic/us/illinois/cook-county/glenwood-PLGEO100100501560000.topic">Glenwood</A> village administrator doesn't plan on needing it anytime soon, though.<BR /><BR />He threw a party Saturday for friends and filled his silver coffin -- designed in Pabst's colors of red, white and blue -- with ice and his favorite brew.<BR /><BR />"Why put such a great novelty piece up on a shelf in storage when you could use it only the way Bill Bramanti would use it?" said Bramanti's daughter, Cathy Bramanti, 42.<BR /><BR /></P></div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/coffin/" rel="tag">coffin</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/beer/" rel="tag">beer</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/can/" rel="tag">can</a></div>http://www.mcall.com/news/custom/offbeat/sns-ap-odd-beer-coffin,0,2932325.storyFri, 09 May 2008 21:12:36 GMT