the reason i like my friend kyle is he does things like bring his 5 lb onion he grew to the state fair not to enter but simply to walk it smugly past all the smaller onions with blue ribbons
the reason i like my friend kyle is he does things like bring his 5 lb onion he grew to the state fair not to enter but simply to walk it smugly past all the smaller onions with blue ribbons
god bless
and he already knows without asking that the first thing we're doing is leaving an offering at the grave of viva la france the wonder cow because that's the first thing we always do and we've been doing that first thing since we were 16 and 18 and we believe it to be Important
Damn. I always wanted to do that when I was farming but never did. My Dad got state champ mixed alfalfa hay for a couple of years there. He was one of only 2 entries, but still.
They would probably just mark him down for somehow not expressing the platonic ideal of onion anyway. Damned fair judges. "What's wrong with my son's 30-pound-extra acorn-fed, very round, very jowly pig? Don't we get bonus points for being different?"
we got two blue ribbons, two best in shows, and two best in preschool division floral & garden last year but didn't enter anything this year. it was rhubarb and leeks we entered i believe
The best chess player in the world just refused to play in the world championship a few years ago and you could say that he is the 5 lb onion
you COULD say that and i WOULD
A 5lb onion is its own reward