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Monkey
05-05-2008, 01:17 PM
There's a pic of him with it here:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24463225/

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 Chicago Heights.

The 67-year-old Glenwood village administrator doesn't plan on needing it anytime soon, though.

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.

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.

Bramanti ordered the casket from Panozzo Bros. Funeral Home in Chicago Heights, and Scott Sign Co. of Chicago Heights designed the beer can.

timmyruckus
05-05-2008, 01:22 PM
nothing says white trash like a pabst blue ribbon casket

Bucho
05-05-2008, 01:31 PM
i think i want to be preserved in a big, formaldehyde filled bottle of Old Crow Bourbon...just send my dead ass out to sea to float around in and to weird people the fuck out.

Tiny667
05-06-2008, 02:28 AM
I would prefer a viking funeral myself.

mikemcgrath
05-06-2008, 08:42 AM
im getting my bones made into a classroom skeleton, with a plaque, then i will be the ghost that roams the school.

EDENFLUX
05-08-2008, 02:38 AM
i want to be smoked!

timmyruckus
05-08-2008, 10:21 AM
i want to be fitted with mechanisms that can make my body and mouth move so at my visitation someone can control me walking up to people viewing a fake wax sculpture of my body and saying...."hey, what's going on here guys? where's the afterparty?"

daylight_robber
05-08-2008, 07:36 PM
If he really wanted to rep Chi-town, he would've went with Old Style.

mikemcgrath
05-08-2008, 08:43 PM
the funny thing is that the chemical they are now saying that is used in plastics and alluminum cans will get him in that coffin sooner than he thinks.