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cblj_backupI am less wall-bouncy today, and can probably be coherent about the fair more so than yesterday. :D
We got up relatively early this morning. I slept well but had very weird dreams. Yesterday I LOLed myself stupid over one particular souvenir for sale, which was a unicorn with a PRIDE RAINBOW HORN. Those familiar with![[info]](https://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
ask_captainjack's fanfiction about Three Gay Unicorns will be especially amused when I eventually post photos. Anyway, I blame the gay unicorns for the dream I had about being responsible for the ENTIRE gay pride program at the Minnesota State Fair. And all I had were my wits and a bunch of inflatable Pride unicorns!
Anyway, we had breakfast at the hotel restaurant where our waiter was one of the Princess Kay finalists at the fair this year, and then took off for the fair early enough that it was just opening as we got there.
I'm glad I convinced the fam to go to the Miracle of Birth barn, because it was MUCH COOLER than they thought it would be, and Mum got to see the baby chicks hatching, which she loves to see. Also, I don't know who among you have seen piglets, but they look so...so...look, I don't want to say this, but they look THROWABLE. They're like tiny furry footballs. I would never throw a piglet! But they look like if you did they'd be totally aerodynamic.
We then saw, as you have no doubt seen, Minnesota's biggest boar, 1300 pounds of pure pig, who Lucky assures me is a stud boar and not a food pig. Because if it's between being bacon and lots of sex....
We did a lot of wandering today, but as the photos have shown we did get a CONE OF COOKIES from Sweet Martha's and some teriyaki ostrich on a stick (tangy but dry). I also snuck away from the 'rents for a moment to buzz the pro choice booth, tell them they were doing a fantastic job, and score some condoms (ALSO ON STICKS). I got handwriting analysis from a hilarious old-fashioned machine with DOT MATRIX printing and then we got MORE FOOD ON STICKS: A pronto pup corndog and a fudge puppy, which is a belgian waffle dunked in chocolate and topped with whipped cream. STICKS VS CONES is currently close, at 4-3. I'm not counting the condoms because you can't eat them.
Otherwise we mostly just mooched around -- we looked at the vendors and the home improvement building, sat and listened to a bit of Garrison Keillor at the MPR booth, rolled our eyes at the incredibly slow walkers.
AND THEN WE WENT ON THE RIVER RIDE, and got very wet butts from the rapids.
It was the best day ever.
AND NOW YOU GUYS OMG WE ARE ORDERING PAPA JOHNS PIZZA. You do not know how I yearn for Papa John's. PAPA JOHN'S. I'm not proud.
BRB DELICIOUS PIZZA OM NOM NOM.
We got up relatively early this morning. I slept well but had very weird dreams. Yesterday I LOLed myself stupid over one particular souvenir for sale, which was a unicorn with a PRIDE RAINBOW HORN. Those familiar with
ask_captainjack's fanfiction about Three Gay Unicorns will be especially amused when I eventually post photos. Anyway, I blame the gay unicorns for the dream I had about being responsible for the ENTIRE gay pride program at the Minnesota State Fair. And all I had were my wits and a bunch of inflatable Pride unicorns! Anyway, we had breakfast at the hotel restaurant where our waiter was one of the Princess Kay finalists at the fair this year, and then took off for the fair early enough that it was just opening as we got there.
I'm glad I convinced the fam to go to the Miracle of Birth barn, because it was MUCH COOLER than they thought it would be, and Mum got to see the baby chicks hatching, which she loves to see. Also, I don't know who among you have seen piglets, but they look so...so...look, I don't want to say this, but they look THROWABLE. They're like tiny furry footballs. I would never throw a piglet! But they look like if you did they'd be totally aerodynamic.
We then saw, as you have no doubt seen, Minnesota's biggest boar, 1300 pounds of pure pig, who Lucky assures me is a stud boar and not a food pig. Because if it's between being bacon and lots of sex....
We did a lot of wandering today, but as the photos have shown we did get a CONE OF COOKIES from Sweet Martha's and some teriyaki ostrich on a stick (tangy but dry). I also snuck away from the 'rents for a moment to buzz the pro choice booth, tell them they were doing a fantastic job, and score some condoms (ALSO ON STICKS). I got handwriting analysis from a hilarious old-fashioned machine with DOT MATRIX printing and then we got MORE FOOD ON STICKS: A pronto pup corndog and a fudge puppy, which is a belgian waffle dunked in chocolate and topped with whipped cream. STICKS VS CONES is currently close, at 4-3. I'm not counting the condoms because you can't eat them.
Otherwise we mostly just mooched around -- we looked at the vendors and the home improvement building, sat and listened to a bit of Garrison Keillor at the MPR booth, rolled our eyes at the incredibly slow walkers.
AND THEN WE WENT ON THE RIVER RIDE, and got very wet butts from the rapids.
It was the best day ever.
AND NOW YOU GUYS OMG WE ARE ORDERING PAPA JOHNS PIZZA. You do not know how I yearn for Papa John's. PAPA JOHN'S. I'm not proud.
BRB DELICIOUS PIZZA OM NOM NOM.
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Date: 2009-09-04 07:26 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-09-04 07:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-04 07:35 pm (UTC)John Hart doesn't count, he's fictional.
Unless you regularly eat condoms. In which case I worry about you, Nick.
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Date: 2009-09-04 07:38 pm (UTC)I looooooove their pizza, I don't have it that often, but when I was younger it was pretty much the only pizza I'd eat.
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Date: 2009-09-04 07:45 pm (UTC)I had one of those at a regional fair outside Toronto back in '03. The memory has stayed with me ever since.
Mmmmm, deliciously wrong.
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Date: 2009-09-04 07:52 pm (UTC)See, when you write that, I picture the sticks going through the condoms, and I have to get all big sister on your ass and tell you that they do not do what you think they do in that case.
Piglets are so fucking cute! Wilbur! And now I feel like busting out into "A Fair is a Veritable Schmorgasboard-orgasboard-orgasboard." You and all your tasty food on sticks and in cones...
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Date: 2009-09-04 08:16 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2009-09-04 07:54 pm (UTC)I have an ACLU condom from the DC Pride parade. I have no intention of ever using it, because it is too funny, and also I doubt the structural integrity of a free condom thrown to me at a parade.
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Date: 2009-09-04 08:01 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-09-04 08:07 pm (UTC)PIX OR IT DIDN'T HAPPEN.
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Date: 2009-09-04 08:21 pm (UTC)I'll scan them when I get home. The organisation giving them out is www.birdsandbees.org . :)
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Date: 2009-09-04 09:03 pm (UTC)GIORDANO'S FTW.
(And Glass Nickel if you ever swing up to Madison, but I digress.)
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Date: 2009-09-05 05:05 am (UTC)I loathe chicago pizza not because it is consistently terrible, but because it thinks it isn't.
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Date: 2009-09-04 09:11 pm (UTC)Glad you had a great time! Come back to Minnesota sometime!
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Date: 2009-09-04 09:27 pm (UTC)LANDSLIDE VICTORY FOR STICKS.
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Date: 2009-09-04 11:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-04 11:45 pm (UTC)2. Miracle of life booth has the ability to both be incredibly cute (Momma miniature horse with an even smaller baby minature horse!) to being a horrifying form of birth control (oh my god, they're pulling the calf out of the cow using chains and there's blood and I don't care if I'm a different species, I'm not giving birth to anything ever)
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Date: 2009-09-05 12:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-05 01:17 am (UTC)Condoms onna stick!!? ROFLMAO! *pictures lollypops and tries not to be all innuendo-y*
:D
Jaydeyn
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Date: 2009-09-05 01:44 am (UTC)My official advice is:
Shoot it in the face!
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Date: 2009-09-05 04:26 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2009-09-05 07:28 am (UTC)*opens mouth to say something*
*stops*
*pauses to think*
*goes to say something else*
*stops*
*thinks*
No, there is absolutely nothing I can say that won't just sound wrong on so many levels.
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Date: 2009-09-05 09:42 am (UTC)And really, what more does one need?
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Date: 2009-09-19 07:49 pm (UTC)>_> I often feel this way about small dogs.