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#239387 - 09/01/04 07:17 PM
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I'm not sure if you're kidding, but I guess you have to be into country music. Surely you must know Toby "we'll put a boot in your ass, it's the American way" Keith. 
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#239388 - 09/01/04 07:51 PM
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Toby Keith (and Ted Nugent) are the two reasons I don't base my musical tastes on the politics of the performers.
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#239389 - 09/01/04 07:55 PM
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Oh yes! This weekend in fact. Tomorrow is bracelet night for the carnival rides. Rides were fun until the year I got on the Scrambler with an ear infection. Haven't tried rides again since. Now I stick with the bunny displays, 4H stuff, quilt judging  and the food concessions.
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#239390 - 09/01/04 08:38 PM
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The county fairgrounds are about 5 minutes away from my office. Every year, a big group of us go over at lunch time (free admission before a certain time every day) and eat fair food. Huge corn dogs, funnel cakes, curly fries, etc. Then for the ride home, we stop by the booth where they make fried pies. Yum!
I guess fried pies are fairly unique to this part of the country (south). What kind of 'unique' food is served in your part of the country?
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#239391 - 09/01/04 08:42 PM
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At the New Mexico State Fair (I'm a NM Native!!), they Indian Village serves Indian Fry Bread. There are huge vats of hot oil (okay, probably lard), and ancient Navajo women in velvet dresses with huge squash blossom necklaces cooking this melt-in-your-mouth fried bread. They top it with powdered sugar, or with beans, chili, lettuce, tomatoes, onions and cheese. I'm making myself hungry just thinking about it!
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#239393 - 09/02/04 03:24 AM
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Brad Paisley, JoDee Messina, Toby Keith
Tucson Tim, besides these, are there any big name stars? Are these just the locals?
Our State Fair in Columbia has Montgomery-Gentry and Lonestar! Not bad for a free concert! Now if only the corndogs were free!
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#239396 - 09/02/04 05:26 PM
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Us Licking County Ohioans have a great county fair! It's got harness racing (with trackside betting) demolition derby, tractor pull, lots of cows, chickens, hogs, fair food, etc. It's great seeing several generations having fun together.
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#239397 - 09/02/04 05:37 PM
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Our bank sponsored a corporate team in the tug of war the last two years at the fair.
The county re-initated in this fair in 1998 and held the first week in Aug. We always had it at the Jaycee's park and just purchased 30 acres for a new location and will open the first fair there in 2005. The fair is growing each year. during one week we had attendance which totaled over half of the total county population.
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#239398 - 09/02/04 05:51 PM
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Our county fair is this weekend, too! It's a great fair - animals, exhibits, the carnival, demolition derby, local rodeo, pro rodeo - everything!
The whole community shows up - it's a great time to catch up with people that one hasn't seen since the last fair! A lot of people come back to the area specifically for that! The local High School sponsors an all-alumni breakfast one morning, where any graduate and their family is welcome to attend, have breakfast and talk to other alums.
Am I going to the fair? Wouldn't miss it for anything!
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#239399 - 09/03/04 10:36 PM
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707 pounds is the official weight of the gargantuan pumpkin entered yesterday at Farm Exhibits by J. D. Megchelsen of Nikiski. Although first listed at 697 pounds, Mike Campbell of the state's Weights and Measures department quickly discerned an error in the computations and pronounced the official weight at 707 pounds. The pumpkin measured 127 x 101 x 91 inches. Megchelsen also entered another pumpkin weighing 504.5 poounds. The warm summer has produced a bumper crop of really big veggies which can be seen at Farm Eaxhibits, including a 39-pound turnip.
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#239401 - 09/04/04 04:05 AM
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Are you Paragon's alter ego? Leave Dawnie alone!
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#239402 - 09/05/04 04:41 PM
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We have a wonderful county fair, complete with all the rides, food, animals, crafts, garden produce, etc. Our fair still has stock car races, demolition derby and a tractor pull on different nights. Free musical entertainment throughout the 4 day run and kids day. It is a blast. Our county fair is in the middle of August.
The Minnesota state fair runs from mid-August through Labor Day. It is a grand event. Rides, entertainment (free and grandstand shows), food and everything else that goes along with a fair.
Yes, I love the fair!!!
Plus at the Minnesota state fair you can get just about any type of food "ON A STICK". Totally awesome.
It even beats Mall of America for best place to people watch in MN!
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#239403 - 09/07/04 04:59 PM
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707 pounds is the official weight of the gargantuan pumpkin entered yesterday at Farm Exhibits by J. D. Megchelsen of Nikiski. Although first listed at 697 pounds, Mike Campbell of the state's Weights and Measures department quickly discerned an error in the computations and pronounced the official weight at 707 pounds. The pumpkin measured 127 x 101 x 91 inches. Megchelsen also entered another pumpkin weighing 504.5 poounds. The warm summer has produced a bumper crop of really big veggies which can be seen at Farm Eaxhibits, including a 39-pound turnip.
Uh is there anywhere you can see a photo of that pumpkin?
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#239404 - 09/08/04 07:15 PM
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The story of the great pumpkin: http://www.news-miner.com/Stories/0,1413,113~7244~2378147,00.html I can't find a picture of it though. When the state fair posts it I'll be sure to send a link.
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