So, on Saturday night I went to the fair.......

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....and despite being tanked up on booze and a bit dizzy from whirling round on the Waltzer (and other fun rides), I used my amazing dart throwing skills to hit the requisite number of playing cards and I won a goldfish!!

It has not died yet, but it remans nameless so

(a) suggestions please for what I should name this goldfish

(b) have you got any fairground stories you'd care to share?

― C J (C J), Monday, 22 September 2003 15:20 (twenty-two years ago)

a) Tarzan
b) no

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 22 September 2003 15:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Male: Bob, Arthur, Screeching Weasel or Sushi
Female: Ruby, Persimmon, Jezebel or Anna

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 22 September 2003 16:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I'll win that motley crue mirror,
If it fucking kills me

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 22 September 2003 16:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Lamont

― Chris V. (Chris V), Monday, 22 September 2003 16:36 (twenty-two years ago)

name: Banjo
story: I was in Chicago for the last Puerto Rican festival and one of the games they had involved tossing a mouse onto a spinning table full of holes and betting which hole the dizzy, sore, and probably angry mouse would scurry into.

― Charlie Rose (Charlie Rose), Monday, 22 September 2003 18:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Or Bubba.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 22 September 2003 18:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I was gonna say Bob, but I see Luna has already picked that one!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 22 September 2003 18:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Clearly it's a good fish name.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 22 September 2003 18:48 (twenty-two years ago)

i haven't been to a fair for years - i suddenly have this incredible urge to go to one. maybe there should be a FAF thread?!

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 22 September 2003 18:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I was standing/riding next to my friend Joe in one of those spin-really-fast-and-the-floor-drops-out-and-you-stick-
to-the-wall-rides-that-probably-has-a-simple-name-that-I-can't-think-of at a fair once, right after we'd been on the tilt a whirl and he'd just eaten 3 corndogs, popcorn, a candy apple and cotton candy, plus had two huge cokes... He threw up and SPLAT, it ended up hitting the person on the other side of me, and the person next to him (also friends), but miraculously missed both of us. It was hysterical and disgusting at the same time.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 22 September 2003 18:57 (twenty-two years ago)

my god, the fried dough

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Monday, 22 September 2003 19:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Name him Mardy!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 22 September 2003 19:07 (twenty-two years ago)

i am the only person in the world to have ever fallen off/come unstuck from the ride that Luna describes (it was called the Rota/Rotar at this particular fair)

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 22 September 2003 19:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I think those things are called Gravitron. Call th fish Ahab.

― isadora (isadora), Monday, 22 September 2003 20:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Call the fish "Derek Dick".

I love fairs, but especially with a girlfriend. Ah well...

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 22 September 2003 20:33 (twenty-two years ago)

me and a chum had a go at 'pull the string to see which album you randomly win' stall and my mate won Def Leppard Hysteria album, I had a go and won a Rufus album. He had another go and won The Beatles Sgt Peppers album, I had another go and won yet another Rufus album. Oh how we larfed.

― Fuzzy (Fuzzy), Monday, 22 September 2003 20:42 (twenty-two years ago)

(and they were all bootleg btw)

― Fuzzy (Fuzzy), Monday, 22 September 2003 20:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha was every track "Tell Me Something Good"?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 22 September 2003 20:44 (twenty-two years ago)

One of the albums was Rufus featuring Chaka-Khan. Don't remember ever listening to them but I kept them in my collection for ages

― Fuzzy (Fuzzy), Monday, 22 September 2003 20:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Call the fish Janice Shmanice.

I was once crushed badly by my mum, as I was small and sitting on the outside of a whirly thing, and she was big and didn't realise how much she was crushing me. I think I cried.

― Mark C (Mark C), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 11:06 (twenty-two years ago)

When I was about five years old, I went on the dodgems with my Mum (who was driving, obv). There were some exuberant (i.e. drunk) teenagers in another dodgem car and they kept ramming into ours until I cried. I hate the dodgems :(

I'm calling the fish 'Flush' (because I have a feeling that's where it will end up before long). It's still alive and quite happy looking, though my cats are eyeing it up hungrily.

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 13:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Cats are rubbish at catching fish and it would mean contact with water for them so they probably won't.

Flush should avoid its namesake and be a happy alive fishy as long as you keep the water clean feed him/her regularly.

― robster (robster), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 14:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Do fish like company? I mean, Flush looks a bit lonely all on his/her own in the fish bowl (yes, I won a goldfish and then had to spend heaps of dosh on a nice big tank for it!). Should I buy other goldfish pals for him/her?

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 14:13 (twenty-two years ago)

(a)name the fish Frankie the Slugger.

(b)there i was at the ultimate redneckfest, the Pulaski County Fair. i guess i was in junior high school. the movie "Robinhood, Prince of Theives was popular that summer and as i munched on pink cotton candy in the long line for the Gravitron, i noticed that the carnie taking tickets was wearing those hideous boots that lace up with fringe. he was a large round bearded man (very Friar Tuck). anyway, as the line crept on i approached the stairs to board. sudden exhilaration came; i would be on the next go round! slowly, the carnie closed the door of the Gravitron, and the ride commenced. suddenly, the carnie was pulled off of his feet and began to whip around the side of the Gravitron, somehow being dragged along with the spinning ride. another carnie screamed, "Bear, its gotcha!" finally, they shut down the ride and were able to dislodge Bear, who apparently had closed some fringe from his trendy boots into the door. Bear was unscathed, but his right boot did not meet such a pretty fate.

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 14:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Clearly the answer is Hongro

― Chris V. (Chris V), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 14:23 (twenty-two years ago)

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