Occasionally you run into people selling Obama t-shirts.
Quite often people do a really lousy job 'running the shows' and we sometimes have to fire them ourselves and find a replacement and we place the ads ourselves for help.
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Sometimes we get a bit discouraged at how things are going, so we bring in the 'film crew' and let them do their thing. We want the world to see what we have to go through at times. This film is up for six Academy Awards.
And of course, we need to make up our individual rewards for the select few.
Sometimes we seem to have more dogs than people walking around, so we decide that there is money to be made featuring a show that really goes to the dogs.
When we were at the 2008 Douglas County Fair, there were long stretches of the day that were just plain boring, so we had to come up with more events:
Great job offer...you might want to consider this.
And sometimes, things just get ridicuously slow, so what else are you going to do?
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VENDOR EVENTS Have scheduled the following events for all the vendors here. Nothing else to do. Nobody around. Booths in bad location.
FRIDAY, July 24 11:30AM Vendor Belching Contest 1:00 PM Cowdung Scooping Championship - see who can pick up the most from The Mine Field in one minute. Last year we had somebody pick up 27 pounds 9 ounces. 2:00 PM Cow Chip Flinging Tournament. Try to beat the record of 137 feet. 5:00 PM Vendor Idol Contest - See which one of the vendors sings the best or worst. The winner gets a free space in next year's fair or they can trade it in for the actual face value - $1.95. 6:30 PM Bull Run - each of the vendors runs into the barn and grabs a cow and takes 3 laps around the perimeter of The Mine Field. 8:15 PM Shitty Shoe Competition. See who can collect the largest amount of cow dung on their shows while walking in The Mine Fied. Last year's record was 3 pounds 5 1/4 ounces. 9:00 PM The Vendor Dash - Let's see which of the vendors can make it the quickest from his/her booth to the back gates. Originally scheduled for 11:01PM, but was rescheduled for 9:00. Best time last year was 13.5 seconds.
SATURDAY, July 25 1:00 PM Lunch Buffet - Tri-tip and Pulled Pork Sandwiches 3:00 PM Dog Jumping Contest - Vendors will sponsor dogs from visitors. They will jump over bales of hay in the middle of The Mine Field while trying to beat last year's mark of 5 bales. 6:00 PM Prime Rib Dinner for everybody
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Of course, we always have interesting speakers/guests at the fairs:
SPECIAL GUEST. Charlie Glitzenmeyer of Redmond will appear at the Fair on Saturday afternoon and will be promoting his new book 'How I Made a Million Dollars' selling pooper scoopers. Inventor of the Glitzenmeyer Propane Powered Super Duper Pooper Scooper which sells at local hardware stores for $238.05. Charlie will also appear at the monthly Green Hat Lady's luncheon on Wednesday at Mildred Zognovicki's home.
Ralph Rock of Madras will teach you how to heat your home using cow manure. He wants to let you know that he is feeling much better after the explosion last year which put him in the hospital for three weeks. His hair has almost grown completely back, but he doesn't have his beard anymore. He thanks everybody for all the cards and flowers that the people out there sent to him.
Tyson Wells - entertainment capital of the world. I just love those Indian Casinos.
Another show with a lot of dogs was the Foster City Art and Wine Festival. Several instances of dogs peeing in vendor's booths, including mine.
