# I love corn

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-corn/617440>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [April 1, 2012, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-corn/617440 "2012-04-01T04:12:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-corn/617440/1 "2012-04-01T04:12:19Z")

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I suddenly have a hankering for corn. It’s overwhelming and consuming my very soul. Please, tell me why corn is corning out of my corn. Corn? Corn because corn corn. Corn corn for my corn and corn. Corn corn corn corn, corn corn corn corn corn corn corn. Corn corn, corn, corn corn corn.

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[COLOR=“DarkOrange”]This post has been corned by the Cornist[/COLOR]

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**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-corn/617440/2 "2012-04-01T04:15:02Z")

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Corn. Corn!

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**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-corn/617440/3 "2012-04-01T04:17:46Z")

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With butter~ Nomnomnom!!!

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**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-corn/617440/4 "2012-04-01T04:20:04Z")

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Corn is a _good_ thing, isn’t it?

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**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-corn/617440/5 "2012-04-01T04:23:13Z")

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Come on now, don’t be so corny!

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**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-corn/617440/6 "2012-04-01T04:23:33Z")

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I think you misspelled pr0n.

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**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-corn/617440/7 "2012-04-01T04:30:35Z")

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[Forest Gump]Roasted corn, creamed corn, sweet corn, white corn, yellow corn, blue corn, purple corn, red corn, corn on the cob, popcorn, Mexican-style corn, candy corn, cornflakes, corn syrup, corndogs, cornpone, cornbread, corned beef, cornrows, corn oil, corn starch, and corn chips.[/FG]  
I love corn.

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**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-corn/617440/8 "2012-04-01T04:33:24Z")

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“Corn” sounds weirder than ever now.

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**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-corn/617440/9 "2012-04-01T04:34:21Z")

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I had corn with my dinner tonight. It was really good. I love corn.

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**Author:** ![living\_in\_hell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@living\_in\_hell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/living_in_hell)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-corn/617440/10 "2012-04-01T04:35:00Z")

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I’ve said it so much, my voice sounds husky.

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**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-corn/617440/11 "2012-04-01T04:40:37Z")

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Corn. Cornballin’ corn.

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**Author:** ![living\_in\_hell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@living\_in\_hell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/living_in_hell)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-corn/617440/12 "2012-04-01T04:43:45Z")

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CORN IS DA SH\*T!  
(really, it is. Doesn’t digest or something.)

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**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-corn/617440/13 "2012-04-01T04:50:13Z")

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I’ve had corned beef many a time, but can’t say as I’ve ever had beefed corn.

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**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-corn/617440/14 "2012-04-01T05:24:06Z")

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> [@ShibbOleth](#):
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> I think you misspelled pr0n.

You mean “pone”?

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**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-corn/617440/15 "2012-04-01T05:30:18Z")

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Yes, but do you love having sex with corn?

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**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-corn/617440/16 "2012-04-01T06:24:39Z")

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**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-corn/617440/17 "2012-04-01T06:32:26Z")

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Archie Francis says: [Buy My Corn](http://www.doorbell.net/sounds/corn.mp3)

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**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-corn/617440/18 "2012-04-01T06:47:39Z")

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> [@panamajack](#):
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> Corn is a _good_ thing, isn’t it?

Yes, corn is a _good_ thing. It’s _very good_. This is the best corn I’ve ever seen in my life. This corn is _very_ good, mods, and it’s good of you to share it so generously.

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**Author:** ![Jasper\_Kent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a9a28c/32.png) [@Jasper\_Kent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasper_Kent)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-corn/617440/19 "2012-04-01T12:53:16Z")

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\*Reminds me of an old joke. \*  
There was this couple who were happily married for 50 years. During that whole time, the wife kept a locked trunk in the closet which she forbade her husband to try to open or even ask about. He complied.

On their 50th wedding anniversary, he said “Listen, honey, we’ve had a long happy marriage and I’ve never messed with that trunk of yours. It’s been 50 years. Would you show me what’s in it?”

She said “Well, okay,” and opened the chest.

In it were tens of thousands of dollars in cash and three ears of corn. The husband was baffled. “I don’t get it,” he said.

“Over the years, each time I was unfaithful to you I put an ear of corn in there,” she explained.

He thought about it and figured that since they’d been so happy all that time he could forgive three indiscretions. “Okay, but what about all the money?”

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She said “Whenever I got a bushel, I sold it.”

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**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-corn/617440/20 "2012-04-01T13:18:46Z")

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…so I’m guessing that for all those lateral seminal roots, she used a sheath.

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