Halloween Party At The Red Lion Inn

KHITS KCCL FM Oldies Radio 92.1 hosted this costume party, featuring the "Unknown Comic" doing standup comedy. Here, he wears an all-purpose paper sack on his head.

I was impressed how this fellow could keep going on and on. The jokes were often lame, but there were so many of them, and they went for hours!

My favorite example: Two blondes put the last piece in a jigsaw puzzle, were overjoyed, and started celebrating. A fellow asked what was so special about that and they said they had been working on the puzzle for four months. "Four months!" he said. "Yes," they replied, "but look at the label on the box: three-to-five years!"

Music was provided by the oldies band "Too Smooth".

The people at the party were interesting. One woman in her fifties said that she and her friend were crossing things off their list of things to do before they die. Neither had been in a bar since they were 21 years old and tonight was the night they decided to return!

Another fellow stood by the door and muttered rather incoherently to himself, often responding to voices that weren't there. He said: "You are an elder!" I wondered if he thought I was some kind of Jedi, or maybe Yoda himself; He eventually revealed that he was "on mushrooms." Ah-ha! That explains it!

There were several witches at the party, but the Young Witch was by far the most interesting person at the party. She was in that difficult-to-reach state: Happy Drunk. She was capable of doing almost anything at the drop of her pointed hat. For example, the Unknown Comic started to set up a joke: "Some people say I have a drinking problem..." Before he could finish the setup she replied, in the most charming way possible "I do!" The audience roared! She started dancing with me and then abruptly dragged me up to the front of the room for a vigorous swing dance. Very fun! I gave her an impetuous kiss on the cheek. She smiled.

But not all was well in Witch land. Just before the costume contest started a grim, clenched-jawed brother/husband/boyfriend suddenly appeared, seemingly from nowhere, clamped her wrist in an iron grip, and hauled her off the dance floor, out the door, out the hotel, and away from the fun. Jealousy - the green-eyed monster - reared its ugly head and diminished the fun of the party.


The costume contestants line up in order to vie for the $ 921.00 grand prize.

Several semi-finalists: The White Rabbit half of 'Alice in Wonderland', The Blind Ref, A Bag of Groceries, some weird fellow that looked like Howard Stern, and Jetta as the Two-Headed Woman.

I didn't wear a costume, and so it was extra-amusing to hear one fellow offer 'Rick Moranis' as his candidate.


The eventual winner: "Three Blind Mice"