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- From: z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson -- Cereal Killer)
- Subject: Re: Solipsism and Don. Or "How Don made himself Thick."
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 06:07:00 GMT
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- dac@prolix.apana.org.au (Andrew Clayton) writes:
-
- >Don't do it man!
-
- Too late. I kept them short, though, out of sympathy for those
- who don't have ethernet in their homes.
-
- >Have you no heart!
-
- Had one just a few hours ago, as a matter of fact.
-
- >Chin up. Take a breather. Think of pigs smeared with margerine,
- >or whatever it is that you hicks get turned on by.
-
- This brings to mind a hick tradition, the County Fair. You
- know, contests, exhibitions, carnivals, and the like. Little old
- ladies entering their apple pies and embroidery into the contests,
- and spending the next ten years bragging about that blue ribbon (or
- bitching about how Thelma Lou must have blown the judge beforehand).
- Kids walking lambs, bunnies, or calves around a ring while some guy
- with a beer gut and his truck's license plate on his belt watches.
- In the evenings, there's the tractor pulls, the horse team pulls,
- the demolition derby, and the rodeo.
-
- All in all, fun to watch but a waste of time to prepare for.
- One traditional game is the "Catch the Greased Pig" contest. You
- take a pig, roughly 50lbs or so of four-hoof drive traction, and
- coat him with grease. I don't know if it's Crisco or ninety-weight,
- but it's grease. Then you turn him loose in a yard and have fifty
- kids try to catch him.
-
- I always wondered if the kid who won had practiced beforehand,
- and gave him a wide berth thereafter.
-
- --
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