Townie Tally
If you came from Kait's blog- you already know the background on this. If not- read it here.
Here is the townie tally as it stands currently.
Katie
Works at a fireworks place
From Wisconsin
Promotes townie-ness
Earlier to embrace townie-ness
Family owns a donkey
Goes and invites friends to townie events
Townier accent- long soothing O's
Smaller town
Hooks friends up with farm-fresh chickens
parents are farmers
still lives in a small town
And- a bonus that I discovered while writing this- her blog is katiewisconsin
Total: 12
Connie
Has never left North America
From Wisconsin
Worked at a really townie bar/restaurant
Promotes townie-ism
Drives a shitty car
Had to educate hometown 'women folk' on sexual topics
Townie-centric
Family has hunting lodge
Thinks she is a 'big city woman'
We have verified that other townies have come out of her town
Eats a lot of weird food
No mouth filter
Total: 12
Holly
From Minnesota
Promotes townie-ism
Family owns a donkey- Happy Valentines Day, Gordon
Has trouble in big cities
Goes and brings friends to townie events
We have verified that other townies have come out of her town
Grew up in the smallest town of the 3
Parents are farmers
Was in a carnival accident as a child
Has been accused of being from Fargo because of accent
Total: 10
Eric, Kait and I all thought that although I do have many townie qualitites, that I should not be a contender in this race. Because really, look at these two. We think that I have townie potential, but am not a 'true townie'.
A new theory from Kait and Eric is that I am a carnie. As I confessed to them that I have carnie blood. Perhaps this is the reason that I like to travel, never really feeling comfortable in one place for long. Mumkin?
We know that these tallies are by no means complete. So if you have anything you would like to add, contest or emphasize, we would love to hear your thoughts. Perhaps a recount will be necessary.
posted by Holly at
11:39 PM
32 Comments:
As an addition to this entry, I invite you to read both of their relatively recent blog entries and their responses to each other. Yikes.
I have a few questions:
Who makes the best hot dish (goolosh for Holly)? Please submit recipes to food.nomadlife.org
Anyone witness their dad shooting their beloved family pet behind the barn because of rabbis or a broken leg?
Have any of you named an animal that you would later eat?
Wow, I can't believe two out of three have Donkeys. Holly, we should totally hook Gordon up to a wagon and roll through Minneapolis, Egyo-style.
i'm really not sure why i'm responding to this... i was pseudo offended when i originally read this, but then realized that i'm the one that claims to be a townie and claims to embrace that part of me, so...
trent:
hotdish- i'm a firm believer in the true hotdish recipe/idea. use up all the leftover stuff in your fridge, throw it in a bowl with some sort of bonding material(cream of mushroom soup if you will) and then put it in the oven at 350 for a half hour. (of course you don't ever mix stuff that's questionable in bacteria content or that obviously wouldn't taste good together, ie: peaches and beans..)
family pet: our first and only family pet, Muggsy, a mutt, is getting old and we're pretty sure that he's got cancer. he's really like a brother as he understands english and gets xmas presents and birthday meals. he's not going to last much longer and we had a discussion last time i was home.. dad could never "take him out back" . he will be taken to the vet's and ashes will be spread at his favorite place: Gelhaus' Porky Creek Lodge.
named an edible: NO
i've also never lived on a farm, had a donkey (or a horse or a pig or a cow). in addition to a hunting lodge, in which we have blaze orange hunting hats for (see my wsc pictures as both jim and george are sporting it), we also have a cottage on a lake.. within 10 mins from the hunting shack. i'll be here all week, please feel free to question away!
the bar/restaurant i used to work at is not "really townie" and one can not claim things like this unless they have seen. it in fact resembles the inside of a TGIFridays. i will admit that it is located on a lake in the middle of nowhere about 10 miles from the nearest town.
This is awesome... it takes one to know one I guess.
If this was a few years back Jake Dallman would've taken the cake though. :)
We need pictures of the donkeys !?
because of a discussion kait and i had earlier today, holly is definately up to an 11
Ha ha ha. Trent, when I was a baby we had a pet rooster that went crazy and had to be shot.
And I am all about taking gordon out on the town. Maybe we can sell prickly pears off of the cart. Or just eat them.
i saw pricly pears at the grocery store last week.
i couldnt bring myself to spend $6.99 a pound on them.
this is the same grocery store that sells canned fuul.
that's it. I am coming to OSU
OK... after reading this I am proud to say that I thought of a few more reasons I am a townie, and I'm sure more will come to me throughout the week. However, it's hard to consider some of these activities 'townie' because to me they are just normal.
to add to the list:
1. yes, i've seen Dad dispose of a pet
2. I used to show cattle at the fair (dairy and beef cows, for those of you that didn't know there was a difference).
3. Yes, we used to eat them after we named them. Actually one year, my brother, sister, and I named ours: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner (even though we call the 3 meals breakfast, dinner, and supper - another townie quality, I think)
4. I have been deer hunting, and the safety froze on my shotgun. Also, one time I walked right by some brush that 2 deer were sitting in - not more than 10 feet away from me. I never said I was a good hunter, I just said I hunted.
5. Dody, I'll do what I can to get some donkey photos on here! I was thinking of that too, but I want to wait until I have a picture of me sitting on him! And our donkey's name is Eeyore, FYI.
6. I must say, my mom's hotdish recipe sounds very familiar to Connie's. Especially the addition of cream of mushroom soup.
7. oh yeah, CHEESE is a food group! I think Connie from Sconnie can atest to that!!
you bet your ass cheese is a food group in itself...especially when grandma works at the local cheese factory (mom did too for years). and i must confess: when they asked me what i want to be when i grow up (in kindergarten) i told them "i want to be a cheerleader and work at marathon cheese, just like my mom." when mom found out about that, she quickly enrolled in college.
And to think... all I wanted to be was a horse-launcher.
are you trying to one-up me?
because i think you just did
Holly don't you get more points for that pciture of you going hunting ? Come on ... track pants with socks on the outside, a gun in your hand and your cousin who you married next to you ...
Innocent until proven guilty.
I just remembered my brother's cow Purple. He named him when we were little because she had a 'purple' sheen to her coat. And one day Purple got 'sick' and had to go away. The night my brother found out Purple was 'gone', he bawled at the dinner table. When we were older, my mom told us that that night we were actually eating Purple for dinner. (a true story, sad to say)
That is so sad... on so many levels...
I wonder if we ever ate the rooster?
Mom... Dad...?
still never eaten an animal that i've known to have a name.
While Connie is definitely from 'Sconnie, is it just me or is she totally out of her Townie league? I think we should have a Breken Vs Leiham tractor pull to decide the towniest.
Connie's euphoric cheers led me to conclude two things:
-She is glad that Trent has decided she's not a townie.
-My ear hurts.
Does a boy from the burbs really have a say? Connie is a townie. Maybe on paper it doesn't seem like she should wear a cheese crown, BUT come on......we've all partied with her.
... the burbs really don't have a say, but i am going to side with T-rent. do you want to know how many weird looks i get when i go back to my TOWNIE homeland? too many for anyone to know. I AM A TOWNIE... always will be in my roots, but i don't fit in there anymore. mom's always told me when i get ready to go out back home "always look your best 'cuz (wink wink) you never know who you're going to run into" this is true, but i will never marry matt kleczweski. and i don't want anything except my family to tie me to a townie town. i am a townie...just not the towniest townie. (happy to be considered one of the top 3, though!
Who DOES still fit in with their home town? That does not discount you as a townie.
I think the way we did this tally is flawed...
Oh, and thanks for spelling BOTH of our names wrong T.
Hey St Cloud, calm down...
I merely took Connie out of the running for "towniest." That's not to say that she isn't townie, cause I think there is an dirth of evidence to support her cheese crown...
But we aren't talking about cheese here, its "Towniest." And we have to weight some of the evidence that has been persented here today: Eating named mammals and owning a donkey definitely puts you into a different townie league, a league in which the likes of Connie can only spectate, with that:
May the tractor pull begin! Yeeeeeee-hawwwwww!
Katie Leum still fits in with her home town...
I'm SO insulted Trent, that you would assume that we are all sitting next to each other drinking swampwater and commenting!!!
These accusations are outlandish!!!
*Note: Roo Roo is NOT a mammal
I would just like to say that I think it's a good thing to be a townie...well, to have townie roots. Because you've probably done a lot of things that I haven't...like owned a donkey, or been to a chicken-catching fest(?) Either way, I've never been a townie and never will be a townie, but I definitely have love for the townie.
Also, I enjoyed Katie phrasing it "dispose of a pet"
Wow! First of all, Connie - I DO NOT fit in with my hometown. Example A: Tonight I went out to the bowling alley (the happenin' place) in hometown and felt incredibly OUT OF PLACE. I'm simply masquerading as a townie because the way of life is so cheap and in this way I'm able to pay off my debt much more quickly. Second of all, I can't stop thinking about this townie tally. I keep thinking about different experiences I've had growing up in Wisconsin and evaluating if they're townie or not. So of course, I've thought of a few more to 'up' my townie tally. Not that it matters at this point...
Can anyone else relate to any of these?
1. I've picked rock.
2. As a kid, I used to go to Junior Bowling on Saturday mornings.
3. Dad used to take me to the Sales Barn on Mondays for lunch to watch the calves being sold.
4. Hung out at Wal-Mart on prom night.
5. Walked a cow home down Highway 61 when I was in high school. Probably one of the singly most embarassing moments in my teenage years.
6. Was president of my 4-H club (head, heart, hands, and health BABY)
7. I've been able to claim self employment on my income taxes due to my very own tobacco crop I raised one year.
8. I used to judge dairy cattle and can identify the seven different breeds of dairy cattle in N America.
9. I've been to a tractor pull.
Are there really only 3 of us townies in Aiesec?? Man, we are so COOL...
I've only got 1 and 4- but 4 was Cabelas and homecoming...
wow, katie...
i've only accomplished number 4 (except it was k-mart...and only for about 30 mins) and number 9 (except it wasn't a tractor pull it was a horse pull).
All I can keep thinking to myself is, "It's 10:15pm, I'm in the Aiesec Office, and I can't stop reading this..."
Katie, I think you're the winner, Babe. Hands down. I don't even know what half of that shit is!!!
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