What I wouldn’t give for Missouri to do something cool like sculpt animals out of butter! I think that may be illegal here. Oh sure Missouri has St Louis and Kansas City, home of the Rams, Cardinals, Chiefs, Royals and Blues (in no particular order), but do you know what’s in between all that vast milage of state wedged between 2 moderately sized cities? BRANSON, the rednecked Vegas!
(my apologies to anyone who finds all this boot-stompin’ and fiddle playin’ entertaining, but it’s just not my thing)
[sarcasm on]Cervaise, I can’t believe you would wait until after the event to tell us about this majestic festival. Now I have to wait a WHOLE YEAR to attend the next one!!![/sarcasm off]
Wow. Flyp, as the unofficial representative of all things Vermont, my state is jealous of your butter cow.
But a corn palace? We build a castle out of ice. I wish I could find a picture, but I just searched for about 20 minutes and came up with nothing. But a whole building made entirely of ice and snow. And it’s gone in the spring.
Yeah, Ohio may have had a lot of serial killers, but we had Jim Jones. He was such a bad dude, he made people kill themselves. (Oh yeah, Koolaid) We also have a town named Santa Claus. Can anyone tell what state I’m from?
Wouldn’t you all like to come to Kentucky, where Bardstown has a Bourbon Festival??
Of course, we also have Hillbilly Days, the Lee County Woolly Worm Festival in Beattyville, Henderson has its W.C. Handy Blues and Barbecue Festival (plenty of corn on the cob for us veggies…)
But sadly we can’t beat the slug festival. < ralph >
When in the hell are they going to put the legs on the damn cow?
Oh, and on another note, Dopers may or may not be able to see ol’ Flyp in all my lovable, roguish charm on the Net at some point, depending on what exactly the people in charge of the camera feeds decide to put on there. I’ll be out at the Fair on and off, and I know they do air the live feeds every once in while. I’ll probably be chowing down on a corn dog or some deep-fried cheese curds or something equally healthy.
And for anyone who’s going to be out at the Fair, stop out at TechTown. Which, in the great sense of irony that runs throughout this state, is in an old livestock barn. An old, unrefurbished livestock barn.
Where in Chicago? I live near the doormat of the National League (Wrigley Field, for our non-Steve Goodman fans). Chicago’s great; it’s anything south of Joliet that’s hell.
And by the way, when I look at the live cam of the butter cow, there was some weirdo in a yellow sweatshirt lying on his back under the cow’s belly, sculpting the belly with his hands.
Amateurs all of you, amateurs. I live near Ely, Minnesota. Yeah it has the Hockey Hall of Fame, and just down Hat Trick Boulevard (not kidding) they have a small pond. Every winter they push a car out on the pond and take bets on what day the ice will give and the car falls in. And a few miles from that is Virginia which has a 15 foot tall rubber ducky floating in their lake. Sweet Jesus! Don’t even get me started on the biggest ball of twine.
I’m not a native, y’unnerstand, so I look at this with a slightly jaundiced eye.
Aside from the obvious tourist draw that is Our Governor, we have Snoopy statues scattered around St. Paul. I kid you not. Since the creator of Peanuts was originally from St. Paul, the city, in partnership with various businesses and the courthouse, installed statues of Snoopy painted various ways. The one outside the courthouse is kinda hippie-ish in black and white flowers, while the one across the street at the Radisson is painted to look like Snoopy in a Radisson bellhop uniform.
Sadly, there was some vandalism, and they had to re-do some of the statues. The doodyheads.
We have something similar down here in Florida. It’s nothing official, just something we all take time to do every winter. It’s called the “laugh at the stupid people that actually have to wear something warmer than a sweatshirt in February” festival. It, too, is gone in the spring - by then, we’re wearing shorts.
Strangely enough we have a festival similar to that in August/September. It’s called the “Laugh at the people nailing planks over their windows” festival.
Besides once the temperature hits 50 we are in shorts up here in Wisconsin. Hey, it’s 50 degrees warmer than it was in January!
Which state is it that has the buffalo/cow chip tossing contests? IIRC, I thought it was Texas or Wyoming… Seems to me flinging pieces of excrement as sport should get some sort of recognition.
In Michigan, we do have the Da Yoopers. If there’s anything sadder than Americans who sound like Canadian wanna-bes, well… I guess it’d have to be slug eating…
well, the new chic here, only to chime in and say Idaho has the world’s largest wooden beagle, somewhere out in the boonies. I don’t know what that has to do with Idaho, though.
Oh, and we have Atlanta, Idaho and Moscow, Idaho, too. Beat THAT Georgia!
