I love state fairs!

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State fairs are great.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 12:43 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.dickies.com/web/images/news/tex2.jpg

"Howdy, folks. I'm Big Tex. Welcome to the Texas State Fair."

― Nemo (JND), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 13:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Man, I just tried to post him and I lost my connection. I was going to say that I love the state fairs too, teeny, and I used to visit Big Tex a lot growing up because my grandparents lived in Texas. I also like folksy fairs with caramel apples and old men with banjos.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 13:18 (twenty-two years ago)

The Texas fairgrounds are great: Art deco with cowboy-and-indian motifs. I think the corn dog (or "corny dog" as it is called in Texas) was invented at this fair, too.

My father does a very good impression of Big Tex's voice.

― Nemo (JND), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 13:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Big Tex looks a little like Bela Lugosi.

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 14:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't eat... corn dogs

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 14:09 (twenty-two years ago)

There's always funnel cake/fry bread/local fried dough variant.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 14:41 (twenty-two years ago)

also, did you check out the schedules? I love this!

1:00 p.m. FFA Market Lamb Show - Sheep Pavilion

...

7:00 p.m. On-Hoof Open Lamb Carcass Show - Sheep Pavilion

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 14:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Big Tex rules. I live near Fair Park - -some of the most underutilized urban real estate ever. All of the expo buildings were built for the cennetennial (texas) and as Nemo said upthread are gorgeous Art Deco things. I took Gareth there and since they were doing some sort of construction/upkeep at the time he said it reminded him of the Planet of the Apes. Wait, he said that about a lot of things. . .

― That Girl (thatgirl), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 14:44 (twenty-two years ago)

what the hell is this?

10:30 a.m. Mystery Sack Contest - Home Economics Building

'Mystery Sack Contest' sounds awful, like something you might have been fooled into doing in boot camp.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 14:45 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.dallas-zoo.org/aq/aquarium_entrance.jpg

The aquarium and the Texas Star.

― That Girl (thatgirl), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 14:51 (twenty-two years ago)

"Tuesdays is your day in the sack"

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 15:10 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.texasmonthly.com/events/chevy/roadtrip/5/food09.jpg

― Nemo (JND), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 15:30 (twenty-two years ago)

that is a picture of St Peter

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 15:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I sure do wish I still had the mirror things I won at the Missouri State Fair when I was in 5th grade.... I also wish I could remember what bands were stenciled on them. I _THINK_ one of them might've been Foreigner.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 15:51 (twenty-two years ago)

didn't we have a state fair thread before?

i like the country fair in hastings, michigan. although the how-to-skin-a-rabbit display made a deep and uncomfortable impression on me.

what i *really* love is "state fair," the movie, starring janet gaynor and will rogers and a very charismatic pig.

― amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 16:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Dude, that's no way to talk about Buddy Hackett.

― NA. (Nick A.), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 16:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Classic: little kids with 30 cubic feet of cotton candy on a tiny stick, bands like Goose Creek Symphony playing at 2 pm on a wobbly stage, petting zoos, Gravitron after 3 beers

Dud: almost all the other people there

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 16:43 (twenty-two years ago)

mmmmmmmbuttercow
http://www.midwestdairy.com/resources/content/4/3/5/images/Butter-Cow.jpg

― brg30 (brg30), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 20:17 (twenty-two years ago)

that's the most incredible thing. look at the veins!

― That Girl (thatgirl), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 22:28 (twenty-two years ago)

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