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State Fair: Love it or Hate it?

How do you feel about the State Fair?

  • Love it!

    Votes: 69 42.6%

  • Hate it!

    Votes: 37 22.8%

  • Don't care

    Votes: 56 34.6%
  • Total voters
    162
ISUcy08 said:
Exactly! Doesn't hurt watching the cougars walk back from the showers either! :wink:
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State Fair Cougar =
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Flag Guy said:
Spent some quality time at the top of the Giant Slide, watching the People of the Fair and the horses and parades and whatever entertainers they had roaming the fair grounds (not to mention G.I. Joe, G.I. Jane, and Sargent HOO-AH! riding down the slide, or Sparky the fire dog loose her head. The crash dummies going down the slide were also personal favorites of mine... Oh and the 99 beauty queens, plus their various escorts and the previous years winner... hmmmm yeah. Good times).

I definitly miss it.
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Did you ever get up the nerve to actually go down the slide? Sounds like you spent quite a bit of time on the top.
 
CycloneNC2015 said:
I dont understand it. Once you have been there once, you have seen it all. Once you have seen a fat cow or bull you have seen it, once you have seen some butter sculpture you have seen it.

I dont really understand the people who would want to put themselves through the missery of going to that godforsaken thing more than once a year let alone multiple times the same year. Besides not understanding why anyone wants to go multiple times, I dont understand how anyone can afford to go more than once. You have to be a freaking millionaire, it will likely cost me and my family $150 just to go one day, let alone multiple days.

If the state fair went away (and i wish it would) I wouldn't notice one bit. Its probably the most overrated experience known to man. Oooh look pork chops on a stick.....wait they are $7.50 apiece and it would take 3 of them to satisfy me, no thanks I will go with another $8 beer. Words cant explain the hatred I have for that ****hole.
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Sounds like a trip to Kinnick.
 
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VeloClone said:
The last few years we have taken the kids to the ISF one day one week and the MSF a day the next week. By the end of that, I am pretty much faired out. The kids love it, though! We made the mistake of going to the Minnesota State Fair on a weekend day last year. I will never do that again. A week day at the MSF is like a weekend day at the ISF as far as crowds go. The crowds on a weekend day at the MSF are just ridiculous.

My wife is from the Des Moines area so they just have to go every year.
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Never go to the Minnesota State Fair on the weekend, if you can help it. Weekdays, and more specifically earlier in the day are the best times to go. The crowds are smaller and the temps are usually nicer. Not everything's open, sure, but I think a lot of the main buildings are, allowing you to get in and see displays and the sort before the rush. On a typical weekday, you're looking at ~110k-120k. Weekends pushes the numbers up to ~180k. Saturdays are usually >200k.
 
Love it. I have not taken a day of vacation this year, I will spend the next solid week at the fair. When I was young (26 now) it was a great place to hook up with the numerous farm ladies, since I was a farm guy. The concerts are great, the Draft Horse show is awesome, the food is spectacular, and memories are numerous. We are camping this year for the first time, which is going to be a blast. All you haters are lame, take your high brow attitude (and I'm talking to you West Des Moines, Waukee, Johnston, Urbandale, Clive residents) and stay home.
 
isugcs said:
Love it. I have not taken a day of vacation this year, I will spend the next solid week at the fair. When I was young (26 now) it was a great place to hook up with the numerous farm ladies, since I was a farm guy. The concerts are great, the Draft Horse show is awesome, the food is spectacular, and memories are numerous. We are camping this year for the first time, which is going to be a blast. All you haters are lame, take your high brow attitude (and I'm talking to you West Des Moines, Waukee, Johnston, Urbandale, Clive residents) and stay home.
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I met this hott red head at The Depot at the fair when I was in high school. We even dated afterwards.
 
I love the fair. I would be bummed if I did not go. I have only been going for about 5 years. One important part: Pork Chop on a Stick. Not much better.
 
tube1 said:
Did you ever get up the nerve to actually go down the slide? Sounds like you spent quite a bit of time on the top.
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Nope, I was to scared :jimlad:



Actually I spent a lot of time at the top shoving down people who were scared and laughing at the screams as they went flying down :biggrin:

I've been down that slide more times than I could count, with about every character that could make it up the stairs (sadly... I could never get Cy to go down. That is my biggest regret. My second biggest regret is that I didn't shove Herky over the fence the one time he came up. I had just graduated high school and was juuuuuust about to start my freshman year at ISU, so I was young and stupid. I would know better now!)
 
Love it...when its not 100 degrees. I like the food, people watching, animals, etc. We brought some friends down from Ames with us when we were in college. 3 of them were from Chicago and 1 was from the DC area. They all loved it as they had never been to a fair and they all live in Chicago now and have came back for the last 4 years still. In fact we will be out there tomorrow, unfortunately for the Keith Urban concert.
 
Love the fair! For sure going once, might go twice. When we go we avoid the Midway, that is not the fair to me. One of the best builidings is the 4-H building. Seeing all of the projects that kids worked so hard on is fun.
 
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