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I am going on Thursday night!

What should I eat? Should I try deep fried Oreos, or stick to funnel cake?

Should I watch the pig racing?

Should I run away with a carnie?

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Monday, 18 July 2005 22:10 (twenty years ago)

Food on a stick: C/D & S/D

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Monday, 18 July 2005 22:11 (twenty years ago)

4-H exhibits!

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Monday, 18 July 2005 22:14 (twenty years ago)

PETTING ZOO

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 18 July 2005 22:14 (twenty years ago)

If I had wanted to, I suppose I could have entered some knitting for competition but $10 first prize??!! What a rip off!

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Monday, 18 July 2005 22:15 (twenty years ago)

there is a petting zoo!

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Monday, 18 July 2005 22:15 (twenty years ago)

http://www.shareyourstate.com/images/zoochickdance.JPG

Chickens playing piano for a kernel of corn!

― andy --, Monday, 18 July 2005 22:23 (twenty years ago)

Let me be the first to say:

County Fair in the country sun
And everything is co-oo-ol!

― k/l (Ken L), Monday, 18 July 2005 22:27 (twenty years ago)

My dad was president of the fair board so I hung around all the time, and got free passes to carnie rides, i.e. Tilt-a-Whirl and the Zipper. The dairy cows are impressive.

― andy --, Monday, 18 July 2005 22:31 (twenty years ago)

Squeeze one and bring me a glass!

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Monday, 18 July 2005 23:02 (twenty years ago)

pig racing is definitely fun. i'd say go for deep fried oreos. ive never seen those!

― AaronK (AaronK), Monday, 18 July 2005 23:10 (twenty years ago)

funnel cake for sure! fuck an oreo!

and, make sure to win a goldfish

― tehresa (tehresa), Monday, 18 July 2005 23:13 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

we just got back from the fair! we had fun. we went early to beat the crowds and sun. ALWAYS a good idea. we got to park right by the front gate. rufus loved the roosters in the ag hall and he loved the bird guy who had owls and falcons and eagles. he went on the car ride and the truck ride and the train ride. i had ribs and frozen lemonade and ice cream. the prize-winning vegetables looked great! superhuman summer squash! the carnies were nice. we got rufus a toy eagle and a huge thomas the tank engine balloon. everyone had fun. cyrus slept mostly. it got hot. we didn't stay for the lumberjack competition. the peruvian folk music was nice.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 20 August 2005 16:23 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

I'm going at the end of the month!

― tokyo rosemary, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 15:11 (eighteen years ago)

I had a giant corndog last night at one of the many fairs I plan on going to this year. It was HUEG.

― molly mummenschanz, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 15:15 (eighteen years ago)

there was a kangaroo in the petting zoo at our state fair last time we went. all i could think was "how did we get here?".

pig racing is fun

― sunny successor, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 15:22 (eighteen years ago)

county fairs are great. why is there not a hackney county fair like there is a lambeth county fair?

― blueski, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 15:40 (eighteen years ago)

two years pass...

http://i652.photobucket.com/albums/uu241/dnvnoo/Co_Fair_Funnel_Cake.jpg

Had some funnel cake tbh

― my future wife has to love talking about the ninja turtles (los blue jeans), Wednesday, 30 September 2009 03:53 (sixteen years ago)

thirteen years pass...

the lineup for my local county fair this year:

Trace Adkins
George Thorogood
Blue Oyster Cult
LoCash

in addition to several nights of demolition derbys/monster truck shows

mixed feelings about this, my very first concert was Weird Al at the same county fair ~25 yrs ago, hard to beat, but who's playing your county fair?

― Florin Cuchares, Saturday, 15 July 2023 06:13 (two years ago)

ZZ Top at my (previous-County) County Fair last year

― Gerard Grisey Funk (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 15 July 2023 14:10 (two years ago)

Sheila E!!

― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Saturday, 15 July 2023 16:20 (two years ago)

Dang would absolutely check out ZZTop or Sheila E, just read that the WA state fair nearish Seattle is playing host to Babyface and SWV on the same night, and, good lord, might consider driving up for that

― Florin Cuchares, Sunday, 16 July 2023 03:34 (two years ago)

Shaggy w/Salt n Pepa, Ludacris, REO Speedwagon.

― Random Restaurateur (Jordan), Sunday, 16 July 2023 20:19 (two years ago)

This year we have .38 Special, KC and the Sunshine Band, Travis Tritt and T-Pain. .38 Special and KC have played several times each in past years. I actually went to a fair concert for the first time last year, when Joan Jett played. It was fun.

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 16 July 2023 22:07 (two years ago)

our full lineup this year is:

Lil John
Sara Evans (?)
Quiet Riot
Scotty McCreery (?)
Sheile E (!!)

― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Sunday, 16 July 2023 22:09 (two years ago)

I have also seen Joan Jett and The B-52s at this same County Fair

― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Sunday, 16 July 2023 22:09 (two years ago)

Ohio Players
John Fogerty
War

― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 16 July 2023 23:31 (two years ago)

Where I live now they don't really have a county fair, but the county next door (where I used to live) does, and without fail, their headliners are always Country guys whose peak popularity was in the early '90s.

― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 16 July 2023 23:47 (two years ago)

...or more current local guys who never broke nationally.

― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 16 July 2023 23:48 (two years ago)

damn ELvis, I'm jealous!

― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Sunday, 16 July 2023 23:49 (two years ago)

really wanna see Fogerty b4 I die

― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Sunday, 16 July 2023 23:49 (two years ago)

(or before he dies, which I guess would most likely come first)

― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Sunday, 16 July 2023 23:49 (two years ago)

Oh shit this year , all on one bill:

Gin Blossoms, Sugar Ray, w/ special guests, Tonic & Fastball

― Gerard Grisey Funk (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 17 July 2023 01:58 (two years ago)

lol incredible bill, would absolutely eat an elephant ear to the sounds of the hit parade circa 1998

― Florin Cuchares, Monday, 17 July 2023 04:32 (two years ago)

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