A to Z - Minnesota State Fair Style

Best day EVER at the Fair. It went a little something like this:

A is for Admit One

B is for Barrels of (MN) Beer

C is for Crop Art

D is for Don't Forget Your Donut Hat

E is for Ewe-nited Front

F is for Floss

G is for Graphic Art

H is for How Bazaar, How Bazaar

I is for "It slices, It dices..."

J is for Just the Facts

K is for Keeping Cool

L is for Look Up

M is for Minnesota Made

N is for New Food

O is for Opportunist

P is for Pretty Pretty Princess

Q is for Quite Lovely

R is for Radio, Ribbons, & Recycling

S is for Summit State Fair IPA

T is for "There's an app for that!"

U is for Under-appreciated

V is for Vino Slushy

W is for Winnings

X is for Xtra Large

Y is for Ya Sure You Betcha

Z is for Zoo Zone

See you next time, MN State Fair!

LOL

For those not on Pinterest, here are a few of those internet joke thingies that made me laugh.

The Win in Winsome

I was going to have a fun little post about the Minnesota State Fair today, but it has been a long 17 hours and I hear it is a gazillion degrees with humidity in the old Land O'Lakes. Can you imagine being the poor sap stuck in the root beer barrel or the corn roast station? Oy...

Today I participated in an orientation of sorts. We had to do "improv games" for 90 minutes. Midway through the session, one of the more seasoned employees scampered up to me chuckling that she "stopped listening to the leader and just followed what I was doing, since I seemed to be doing everything right". I wanted to reply, "Well, I hope so - $100k+ investment went into my knowing how to do theatre games". But I just smiled and laughed along with her.

But, it wasn't all "Yes, and..." games...I also was introduced to this TED talk by Sarah Kay. Love it. Have already replayed it a handful of times. I hope it means something to you, too.

Novel Receipt

A couple of weeks back, I instagrammed a photo of my disproportionate CVS receipt (I'd bought one soft drink) while enjoying an afternoon at the park.

A few minutes later on Twitter, it was favorited by a certain "CVS_Receipt". 

Obviously, I thought this was hilarious. I especially enjoyed its first tweet on June 29:

I appreciate a good personification through Twitter. After all, I was a huge fan of the Bronx Zoo's Cobra.

Turns out, CVS Receipt is getting some attention:

Huffington Post - Evidence That CVS Receipts Are Getting Way Too Long

Oh, CVS, and your unnecessarily long receipts...it's like a little inside joke a few hundred thousand of us share. 

Deltalina

With certain flight routes consistent for me, I've become a Delta frequent flyer.

I've been pretty pleased - air travel in general has become sigh-inducing, requiring the highest level of patience, and at least if you are familiar with a certain company, you know what to expect and which rules can be bent in order to make your journey more of a pleasure in the sky.

As the Delta flights added up, I became more and more humored by this :

Recognize her? Or more specifically, the finger wag?

This was Delta's preflight safety video for years.

You can skip to 1:50 to see noted "wag".

"Smoking...is not allowed..."

Yep. That line and that movement.

It was just so catchy. Something that made me smile pre-takeoff. Or was it the vodka & OJ?

During one flight to the tropics, I was informed by a seat mate (who chuckled seeing me imitate the wag/phrase), that the stern yet playful flight attendant with great facial bone structure was indeed a flight attendant! Not an actress! This gentleman had met her and even knew the redhead's name - 

Kat. Katherine Lee, formally.

I wasn't sure that I believed him. But who is going to argue when you have 4 hours to spend together with only reused oxygen to breath.

Skip to a year later.

I settled in to my limited recline window seat to enjoy the usual safety instruction video, finger prepped to enforce to my imaginary passenger that she could not smoke, for it was NOT allowed (wag-wag-wag).

Alas! It was a different video! At first, I was disappointed and miffed. But then I ended up being even more amused at the new, cheekier version that was playing. And they even gave a nod to Kat!

Version #1

Version #2

And who doesn't like some good outtakes?:

I approve. And I guess I'm not the only passenger who becomes obsessed with such things as goofy airline safety videos and charismatic flight attendants/airline safety video stars.

At least so says the New York Times in this article:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2013/01/27/travel/airline-safety-videos-a-seat-belt-reminder-and-a-smile.html

At least I didn't propose to Deltalina...

YET.