I AM THE MAYOR OF DICKSVILLE!

[Bu🤠ns]

New Vimes novel, happy Luna.

Y'all forgot the tug of war where you get to drag rednecks through the mud.  You can actually convince some of them to compete against a vehicle.

Bonus points if you can get the horses involved.

Sounds more like an Iowa thing only instead of mud it's the Mississippi river

[Juana]

A teenager/young twenty-something must die of alcohol poisoning, either in the parking lot or the arena. There will be a new, horrible fried food, and there has to be a controversial piece of art displayed in the art contest, which will cause a furor, county-wide.

Otherwise, it's simply not the Fair.

[rong]

Where I come from, it is not a fair without a demolition derby.  I'll never forget the year they were handing out free cans of Copenhagen.

[East Coast Hustle]

Who ever invented deep fried twinkies deserves an award

IIRC, it was some spag from Puyallup.

Which makes total sense to anybody who's ever been unlucky enough to go to Puyallup.

[Telarus]

Oh dear god, not mutated fucking vegetables.

Every year.  It's reminiscent of The Truth, by Terry Pratchett, except they aren't shaped like a penis.  Usually.

On that note, a new Vimes novel is coming out next month.

Damn, THAT's awesome. (Still need to catch up on the Discworld books).

[sotesla4]

Last Illinois county fair I went to was Boone County, summer of 1992. Let's see...

Aaron Tippin concert, demolition derby, a tractor pull, a 4-H barn with a filthy petting zoo full of asshole goats (asshole goats are awesome), vegetable and flower competitions, some shitty local country act with a frontman that looked like an even trashier Billy Ray Cyrus playing the bandstand at lunchtime that'd always work "Proud to be an American" into the set, hypnotizing (to a 10 year old) booth shops selling pocketknives and cowboys and indian and ninja playsets and firecrackers and stinkbombs and hat pins and potato guns. We got kicked out of the fair for a whole day for dropping stinkbombs off the top of the bleachers onto the sidewalk below. Almost hit some woman pushing her kid in a stroller. Half of the rides broke down in the hottest part of the day, the seats were sticky with potentially terrible things, and the operators all had long hair and played Metallica.

I'm sure as an adult now it'd be a lot less fascinating but at that age with free reign of the place it was magical.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Who ever invented deep fried twinkies deserves an award

IIRC, it was some spag from Puyallup.

Which makes total sense to anybody who's ever been unlucky enough to go to Puyallup.

The Puyallup Fair is widely touted as the best county fair in Washington State.

[the last yatto]

i think thats only because they are the only one able to book any talent... weird al and devo almost every summer.
bumpershoot had ATR and antiflag and that was about it
evergreen fair had the Budweiser horses

ps deep fried butter scares me

[Don Coyote]

Who ever invented deep fried twinkies deserves an award

IIRC, it was some spag from Puyallup.

Which makes total sense to anybody who's ever been unlucky enough to go to Puyallup.

That does make sense.

[Don Coyote]

Who ever invented deep fried twinkies deserves an award

IIRC, it was some spag from Puyallup.

Which makes total sense to anybody who's ever been unlucky enough to go to Puyallup.

The Puyallup Fair is widely touted as the best county fair in Washington State.

The GF expressed a desire to not go to the fair this year. It makes me suspicious.

[Iason Ouabache]

Last Illinois county fair I went to was Boone County, summer of 1992. Let's see...

Aaron Tippin concert, demolition derby, a tractor pull, a 4-H barn with a filthy petting zoo full of asshole goats (asshole goats are awesome), vegetable and flower competitions, some shitty local country act with a frontman that looked like an even trashier Billy Ray Cyrus playing the bandstand at lunchtime that'd always work "Proud to be an American" into the set, hypnotizing (to a 10 year old) booth shops selling pocketknives and cowboys and indian and ninja playsets and firecrackers and stinkbombs and hat pins and potato guns. We got kicked out of the fair for a whole day for dropping stinkbombs off the top of the bleachers onto the sidewalk below. Almost hit some woman pushing her kid in a stroller. Half of the rides broke down in the hottest part of the day, the seats were sticky with potentially terrible things, and the operators all had long hair and played Metallica.

I'm sure as an adult now it'd be a lot less fascinating but at that age with free reign of the place it was magical.

Stop it! You are making me homesick.