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[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by Fugee
Your sister was here and going to the State Fair and you didn't have her contact me? For shame!

I thought the Miracle of Birth exhibit was way cool. Sex ed for the little city kids.** They have bleachers for people to sit and watch and also have it on TV screens.

**The Fugee Dad told me that when I was in second grade, the teacher called home to say that a graphic description of a calf being born was perhaps not appropriate for Show & Tell.

I got trapped in the Miracle of Birth building during a near-tornado last Thursday while trying to get to the Sonic Youth/Flaming Lips show in the Grandstand. Finally, we found someone with a map and realized that with a quick wet sprint, we could get to the Department of Natural Resources Building, make our way through there, and then another quick sprint to one of the many beer stands It was covered and we waited out the remainder of the storm there. I highly recommend seeing the Flaming Lips live, but don't do any drugs, because it is not that kind of show.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
They sound delightfully judgmental.

Where do you think I get it?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
I got trapped in the Miracle of Birth building during a near-tornado last Thursday while trying to get to the Sonic Youth/Flaming Lips show in the Grandstand. Finally, we found someone with a map and realized that with a quick wet sprint, we could get to the Department of Natural Resources Building, make our way through there, and then another quick sprint to one of the many beer stands It was covered and we waited out the remainder of the storm there. I highly recommend seeing the Flaming Lips live, but don't do any drugs, because it is not that kind of show.

I've never been to the Minnesota State Fair, but I have been to the Wisconsin State Fair and I read a David Foster Wallace essay about the Iowa State Fair.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
I got trapped in the Miracle of Birth building during a near-tornado last Thursday while trying to get to the Sonic Youth/Flaming Lips show in the Grandstand. Finally, we found someone with a map and realized that with a quick wet sprint, we could get to the Department of Natural Resources Building, make our way through there, and then another quick sprint to one of the many beer stands It was covered and we waited out the remainder of the storm there. I highly recommend seeing the Flaming Lips live, but don't do any drugs, because it is not that kind of show.

What all gave birth?

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
What all gave birth?

Nothing while I was there, although there was a pig that seemed ready ready ready. There were some very cute lambs that seemed to be of a recent vintage.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I've never been to the Minnesota State Fair, but I have been to the Wisconsin State Fair and I read a David Foster Wallace essay about the Iowa State Fair.

I think the Wallace essay was about the Indiana State Fair. I enjoyed it, although it was seen as a bit of a shameful act of self-loathing/currying favor with East Coast elite by at least two fellow Midwesterners.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
Nothing while I was there, although there was a pig that seemed ready ready ready. There were some very cute lambs that seemed to be of a recent vintage.

did you get some lambchops afterwards?

I went to the arkansas state fair. I don't recall any animals.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
I think the Wallace essay was about the Indiana State Fair. I enjoyed it, although it was seen as a bit of a shameful act of self-loathing/currying favor with East Coast elite by at least two fellow Midwesterners.

Well, sure. And the cruise-ship thing just confirmed it, no?

eta: I would bet dollars to donuts that it was Iowa, not Indiana, but my in-laws are sleeping in the room where I've got that book.

eta: Three seconds on Google suggests it was maybe Illinois instead. My in-laws are still sleeping.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
did you get some lambchops afterwards?

I went to the arkansas state fair. I don't recall any animals.

Arkansas had no animals at it's State Fair? I love fringey 88%- she lies sometimes

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Arkansas had no animals at it's State Fair? I love fringey 88%- she lies sometimes

I didn't say there weren't any, I said I didn't recall any.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
Nothing while I was there, although there was a pig that seemed ready ready ready. There were some very cute lambs that seemed to be of a recent vintage.

when my daughter was 5 she wanted to be a vet. at the michigan state fair we saw a lamb being born- a vet had to reach up into the mamma to turn a breach birth around. then she didn't want to be a vet.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
did you get some lambchops afterwards?

I went to the arkansas state fair. I don't recall any animals.

I had no lamb. I did have some deep-fried, breaded, cream cheese-filled pickles. Did I mention that it is a bad idea to go to a Flaming Lips show on drugs?

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Well, sure. And the cruise-ship thing just confirmed it, no?

eta: I would bet dollars to donuts that it was Iowa, not Indiana, but my in-laws are sleeping in the room where I've got that book.

eta: Three seconds on Google suggests it was maybe Illinois instead. My in-laws are still sleeping.

Illinois it is. All those Midwestern I-states are basically the same, though, right? And the ones that begin with other letters, too.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
I had no lamb. I did have some deep-fried, breaded, cream cheese-filled pickles. Did I mention that it is a bad idea to go to a Flaming Lips show on drugs?

you know how people say that if you've been drinking that when you fall and hit the ground you tend to be injured less than if sober? does that apply to snake bites? cuz I just saw SOAP and I likely would be 3 drinks into the flight when the snakes get out, and that would slow my ability to fight them, but maybe I could survive a bit better if I'd been drinking?

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
you know how people say that if you've been drinking that when you fall and hit the ground you tend to be injured less than if sober? does that apply to snake bites? cuz I just saw SOAP and I likely would be 3 drinks into the flight when the snakes get out, and that would slow my ability to fight them, but maybe I could survive a bit better if I'd been drinking?

Alcohol slows your circulatory system, so the venom would not race through your system like it would in the fuckers all hopped up on caffeine. You would be a survivor.