Sort of Like Congress 5
’nuff said.
That’s right. Come Saturday the skies will be filled with something they’re just not usually filled with as the Corn Festival once again hosts the Illinois Championship Cow Chip Throw.
If this sounds like an odd sport, chances are you haven’t been paying attention to what’s been going on down country roads all over the place. For more than 30 years, for example, the folks in Wisconsin’s Sauk County have been holding the Wisconsin State Cow Chip Throw. The winners, of course, are eligible to compete in even older World Cow Chip Throw in Beaver, Okla.
July 15, 2006 at 12:27 am
Somehow the Chatham festival has never gained the same level of respect the Illinois State Fair’s Hog Calling Contest (for hog farmers) and Husband Calling Contest (for hog farmers wives) have risen to.
July 15, 2006 at 3:49 pm
Looking at the names of these events, there are good things about living in the city.
July 15, 2006 at 6:18 pm
To Karen:
And old story from Bennett Cerf’s writings concludes with the line, “a country boy can learn everything a city boy knows in six months; a city boy can never learn everything a country boy knows by instinct.”
Being country boy that has lived in the city for many years, I can attest that this is correct.
To Opie:
Some wives I know would not see a difference between a hog calling contest and a husband calling contest.
July 15, 2006 at 10:15 pm
Ok, I’ll learn one here, as I really don’t think I’ve ever met an honest to goodness country boy. Play acting cowboys, yeah. Country boy, nope.
July 17, 2006 at 7:44 pm
Pine View Farm is a real place.