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It's a very multimedia day :D

I sorted through the photos I and Mum both took at the fair, and tossed up a gallery of the best and most interesting for you to see. For the self-guided tour you can go here, or click the sticks below and keep hitting "next" to go through them in order.

Comments

Rocks

[aquila-dominus.livejournal.com]

on a stick???

Re: Rocks

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

EVERYTHING ON STICKS! It's some kind of law :D

Re: Rocks

[frith]

Or rather, Rocks on Stalks.

[cruentum.livejournal.com]

I'm so so so envious of that gay blow-up unicorn.

So envious.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Next year I'll buy you one :D

[rdprice29.livejournal.com]

Cool pics!

We went to the Maryland State Fair yesterday, and there was a disappointing lack of food on sticks. >:( I was very disappointed, otherwise it was fun.

Except for the Zipper ride that my son guilted me into going on with him. That's the closest to death I ever want to be again...it was terrifying! Which, of course, my 9 yo son thinks is hysterical and has been continuously mocking me for ever since.

[altorogue.livejournal.com]

Oh dear lord- I used to go to the Missouri State Fair every year, and when I was about eight a friend and I went on the Zipper. And being eight, we weren't big enough to really brace ourselves in the cage that you can't really even sit down in. And through the whole ride, we're bouncing around- and then they stop it to let people off, and we're at the top, upside-down . . .My grandmother fondly recalls hearing me shrieking to be let off from her vantage point on the ground, and she likes to tell the story to my younger cousins, especially now that I'm 25. :D

[vivichick.livejournal.com]

Quite entertaining, Sir. QUITE entertaining.

Though I feel a bit stupid. Where is the angry frog?

[ursula-bear.livejournal.com]

It's made out of the three chairs at the bottom of the picture - the one right at the bottom is the mouth, and the two directly above it make it's eyes :)

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

If you took the legs off the gay unicorn it would totally look like a gay Loch Ness Monster...icorn.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they have dragony noses, don't they :D

One of the unicorn's legs whistles if you squeeze it. There's a squeaker in the joint.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Is it a wolf whistle?

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Oh, how I wish :D

Milk on a stick

[viggosterri.livejournal.com]

Those are awesome! LOL!

(This morning I was reading somewhere that in Siberia, people buy their milk frozen on a stick and take it home that way, put it in a container and then let it thaw. That might be going too far.)

Re: Milk on a stick

[bloodanna.livejournal.com]

... I am now picturing people walking around with milk lollypops ala Bernard's Wine!lolly in 'Black Books'.
Which is an odd image to say the least.

[ursula-bear.livejournal.com]

Oh it looks so fun!
I wish we had fairs like this in England! The Norfolk Show (my local agricultural fair) just isn't quite the same :(

[inksheddings.livejournal.com]

I am wondering what you do with a full-size, buttery likeness of your head. It wouldn't even fit in my fridge, yet it would seem... gruesome to slice it up into fridge-sized sticks for later consumption- yet wasteful not to. Why, exactly, am I pondering this?

[adina-atl.livejournal.com]

I was pondering the same thing.

[inksheddings.livejournal.com]

It does kind of make you wonder!

[altorogue.livejournal.com]

Copious amounts of baking. :D

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

We actually discussed that, because I thought, you know, what does the fair DO with the butter heads after it closes? I suggested that if they aren't giving them to a local food pantry, they should.

Lucky said they get to keep the sculpture of their own head, and presumably they don't need to buy butter for a couple of months/years. But I think the Princesses should give the butter to a food pantry. Or make a shitload of shortbread. :D

[inksheddings.livejournal.com]

A food pantry would make sense. Nothing goes to waste plus you don't have to actually watch as someone carves up your head or, you know, do it yourself. Perfect. *g*

[operafloozy.livejournal.com]

This article (http://www.midwestdairy.com/pages/news_detail.cfm?ARTICLE_ID=350&TREE_ID=400) makes it seem like they tend to just use it in large cookouts and/or donate it to a restaurant. . .

[elainasaunt.livejournal.com]

The one who says she used it mostly for honey butter brings back memories. You mush honey (preferably comb honey) and slightly softened butter together with a fork and spread it on toast. Somehow it turns into a totally different taste treat than buttered toast with hunny drizzled on it.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

I will accept donation to a restaurant as a substitute for food pantry; gotta support the small business owners. *nods*

My butter head was in the barn for the winter. A neighbor came over to check the farm, saw the butter head, and called the police! – Linda Kottke, 1966, McLeod County

I LOLED HARD.

[valancy-joy.livejournal.com]

ha. you get gay unicorns on your trip... I get aliens bears on mine!

I see PHC treated you to Doyle and the gang. They've played the performing arts center where I used to work twice. I'm sorta hit'n miss with that kind of music, but those boys can PLAY!

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

I loved them :) Much more coherent, interesting, and talented than his other guest.

[valancy-joy.livejournal.com]

Their first trip, I sorta loved that the guy who on stage was the goof-ball was also in charge of the merch ... where he was anything BUT goofy. Sharp as a tack that one. (and an object lesson to anyone who thinks what they see on stage is anything close to reality!)

glad you enjoyed them. they do a bang up show!

[morgan-lowri.livejournal.com]

Rock onna Stick!

[iamshadow.livejournal.com]

That's a lot of chocolate honey ice cream for one cone!

Were there any mosaics made from fruit (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Royal_Easter_Show)?

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Sadly, I didn't get to look at the vegetable art, so I can't say. But supposedly they were awesome!

[altorogue.livejournal.com]

Oh, GOD- we had a professor in college who's name was in fact, Deano, and I think he and the pig are of a size . . . I think I'm going to send that picture to a friend of mine who had Deano as his advisor. :D

That Fudge Puppy looks to DIE FOR. Now I want waffles and chocolate.

[drgaellon]

It's "The Pajama Game," no Y. And Spam is NEVER fit to eat.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Fail at pop culture again *facepalm*

We did studiously avoid buying anything from the Spam booth. :D SPAM CURDS, I ask you.

[drgaellon]

Not even pop culture fail, Sam. Paying attention fail - half a dozen of us TOLD you the name in the comments to the previous post! :D

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

I always spell it pyjama, it's really mostly just force of habit :)

[darthhellokitty.livejournal.com]

TEENY TINY HORSES!!!!!

[frith]

Made me look. 8-D

[zzanthalinn.livejournal.com]

http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/candyfab

Saw this, and *immediately* thought of you -- perhaps triggered by your cone/stick classification dilemma over spun sugar fluff, don't know.

Just seemed like something you would find amusing.
Or awesome.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

I LOVE fabrication machines, and this is an awesome bootleg version. Thank you!