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19 April 2006

This thread is going to the County Fair. Please come along.

post by: Miko at: 12:13 | 42 comments

YAY! I can get my elephant ear and caramel apple!

posted by sciurus 19 April | 12:14

Funnel cake and birch beer!

posted by jrossi4r 19 April | 12:14

*Brings the nicest peccary pie in all of Lo'ompoc*

posted by PinkStainlessTail 19 April | 12:14

Whoa. I had a dream last night that I rode the ferris wheel! GET OUT OF MY HEAD

posted by agropyron 19 April | 12:20

*lines up for root beer float and onion rings*

*convinces essexjan to go on crazy scary ride*

*challenges everyone to play the 'Shoot Out the Star' game*

*goes with mudpuppie to admire blue-ribbon chickens*

posted by Miko 19 April | 12:21

I'm gonna win a HUGE stuffed squirrel for my favorite boy!

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 19 April | 12:24

I demand a bloomin' onion, a wax paper bucket of beer, some friggin' pigs feet and a clean and relatively dry pukin' spot behind the dumpster.

posted by Divine_Wino 19 April | 12:28

What is that *smell*??

posted by sarah connor 19 April | 12:29

funnel cake, some corn on the cob and a load of beer if you please.

posted by gaspode 19 April | 12:30

I rode the Green Dragon and now I can't feel my neck.

Can I have a dollar for roulette?

I want some silver queen corn and Mullinix beef barbecue, please.

There's a recruiter, you guys wanna join the national guard, or at least play on an assault vehicle?

Take a look at that 1920's firetruck. That's a real live 1920's man driving it!

posted by Hugh Janus 19 April | 12:32

Do you think these healing magnets really work?

Check out that guy in the plastic chamber with the bees all over him.

I'm betting on #3 in the armadillo races. He looks like he wants it, you know?

posted by Miko 19 April | 12:35

Hey, look up there!

posted by go dog go 19 April | 12:36

Yay Tilt-A-Whirl!

posted by sisterhavana 19 April | 12:37

OMG, corndog!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'd walk a country mile for a country fair corndog (which is the same disgusting corndog that you get frozen at the supermarket... but not. Mmmh! Extra mystery grease! Yay!!!)

posted by taz 19 April | 12:38

Dude, I don't know if we should have taken that acid all at once like that, I think I just saw a chicken bite the head off a man.

Quick, we need cotton candy and a sausage and peppers.

posted by Divine_Wino 19 April | 12:39

I'm going to the petting zoo to see Ziggy the Five-Legged Horse.

posted by sciurus 19 April | 12:46

Parsley, sage, rosemary & thyme.

posted by omiewise 19 April | 12:56

I'm off to the demolition derby!

*totes paper cone of fries with vinegar, hideous huge SpongeBob knockoff doll won in the baseball toss and a fistful of SkeeBall tickets*

posted by initapplette 19 April | 12:59

will it win me a kewpie doll?

posted by jonmc 19 April | 13:00

Don't worry, Divine_Wino, that chicken was me, and that man was a goat.

posted by Hugh Janus 19 April | 13:02

Double Humpin' Sweet, let's have some more acid then and a fried pickle and where the fucking hell are my pants?

posted by Divine_Wino 19 April | 13:04

no, it wasn't, hugh.

*chases head around fairgrounds*

posted by jonmc 19 April | 13:05

That chicken was Mike.

posted by essexjan 19 April | 13:08

also, hugh, check your email, or call pips and get my work #

posted by jonmc 19 April | 13:10

HJ: Silver Queen... Twelve for a dollar from the back of a pick-up from a nice young man in overalls on the road to Oxford, Ohio, circa '93... Was that you?

Cotton candy, please.

posted by Pips 19 April | 13:16

I just got saved at the Christian tent. I got this cool neon WWJD bracelet!

posted by Miko 19 April | 13:34

I just got lost at the S&M tent. I got this cool 'slave bracelet,' from a man in leather diapers.

posted by jonmc 19 April | 13:38

* buys "Death to Disco" t-shirt *

posted by Triode 19 April | 13:45

Let's go look at the freakishly large farm animals!
Yay! Pet the goats!
Yay! Look at the pigs! They're auctioning them off!
uh. . no, honey, those numbers just mean that pig is really special. Nobody would eat that pig - quick, let's go see the furry chickens!

posted by mygothlaundry 19 April | 13:46

I'm at the hot sauce tasting tent. Would somebody go get me a coke please? Now? Please?

posted by JanetLand 19 April | 14:08

I am the greatest Eastern Seaboard/Shallow Midwest roadside Silver Queen purveyor who ever lived!

And only I know the way to the Spicer P, which will get us out of this rabbit hat and make you new trousers, Divine_Wino.

posted by Hugh Janus 19 April | 14:10

This Most Exactly Normal Vegetable exhibit sucks!

posted by PinkStainlessTail 19 April | 14:43

I'm going to down a couple of Guatemalan Insanity Peppers then try to win that awesome AC/DC mirror.

(Also, I now picture Triode as Dr. Johnny Fever.)

posted by jrossi4r 19 April | 14:46

I dunnno, jrossi, the "Houses of the Holy" mirror is pretty wicked awesome, too.

Hey, isn't that the Marshall Tucker Band on the mainstage?

Do you like my glowing necklace?

posted by Miko 19 April | 15:08

I'm not sure, Miko. Might be Crack the Sky.

And yeah, I like your glowing necklace, but I wasn't going to say anything, because I ate acid too so your hair and that cotton candy spinner over there are also glowing.

posted by Hugh Janus 19 April | 15:32

I was born in Oxford, Ohio.

posted by sciurus 19 April | 15:49

Ooooh, I wanna funnel cake, a bloomin' onion/awesome blossom, cotton candy, and get dehydrated and overheated and puke on the Ferris Wheel that somebunny talked me into riding although I'm terrified of it.

Ohhhh, and there's one of those picture thingies where you dress up in ol' western wear and I've never done it and I wanna do it now!

And big pimpin' hats! Somebunny's gotta bust a buncha ballons and win me a pimp hat!!

posted by deborah 19 April | 15:53

I was in Oxford, Ohio, in 1993. Quite often, actually, between 1990 and 1994. (My alma mater's in Richmond, IN).

posted by Hugh Janus 19 April | 15:57

Y'all, what does 4-H stand for?

posted by go dog go 19 April | 16:41

Who wants to go on the Scrambler? When it gets late and the carny is stoned, he lets you ride for, like, 10 minutes.

If you're bigger than me, take the outside, so I will be crushing you rather than the other way around.

I have to apologize in advance because I'm gonna be laughing uncontrollably throughout the ride. The Scrambler is hallucinatory after a while -- the fair rushes by us in a horizontal light-bulb blur -- and then we get hauled backwards and skiied forward again, and again, and again.

Fun.

posted by Miko 19 April | 16:49

I cannot even THINK of a tilt-a-whirl without getting nauseous. . .daugher and I chose it because it did not look as scary as El Nino or other deathhammer rides. . .

About 30 seconds in, I was giving the finger-across-throat to the operator begging to be let OFF this thing . .no luck . . .

Afterwards, we went to the ice rink. . .daughter skated and I just sat with my head between my knees in the cool for at least an hour before I was even OK to do anything else.

Please don't take me to the ride section . .I'll stay in the bunny barn looking at the Californias, Angoras, and Lopears.

posted by danf 19 April | 16:58

The Hs in 4-H stand for Head, Heart, Hands, and Health.

posted by JanetLand 20 April | 14:16

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