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[bzarcher]

Dear sirs.

I realize that to many people in Ohio and the surrounding area, 'Cornhole' is a game played with a large board, bean bags, and frequently shows up at tailgates and other fine outdoor excuses to drink beer.

On the other hand, both 'Cornhole' and 'Cornholing' have a TOTALLY DIFFERENT CONNOTATION pretty much anywhere else.

Which is why I'm sure it's a good game, but I can't take Cornhole All-Stars! seriously. At all.

Snickering all the way to bed,

-Me.

Comments

[ardaniel]

I bet MSNBC's looking for some way to do a feature on cornholers who are also teabaggers.

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Hell, all they really need to do is walk around Hamilton County for awhile.

[cannonswift.livejournal.com]

Bahahahahahahhahahahahahahahaha

[robyscots.livejournal.com]

As an interesting side note, for Joe's birthday one year my parents had a cornhole set made for him that has the Wooster logos painted on it.

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Oh, that'd be kind of neat. Did it come with black and gold bags?

(Or even better, tartan!)

[robyscots.livejournal.com]

No, red and blue bags I believe.

But tartan would have been awesome!

[bredmold.livejournal.com]

I had no idea that 'cornhole' had any meaning besides the one I've been familiar with. If I'd run across the site without this introduction, I wouldn't in a lifetime click through the link at work. I think I'll have to send it to Alison and see how she reacts.

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Believe it or not, there's an entire cornhole industry out there. Bags, boards, scoreboards, drink stands...

[arashink.livejournal.com]

That was my reaction when I came across them at Great American Ballpark.

[flaggerx.livejournal.com]

Near my office someone opened a business called "Cornhole" games and put out a sign shaped like one of the boards players use as a target. Of course I had no Idea how to play 'cornhole' even though I was born and bred in Ohio and watched RFD on Saturday mornings while waiting for the cartoons to begin.

I did, however, understand the word in a very different context, the same context I understand the word 'teabagging' something being done by conservatives today. And I thought of said word in its less than innocent meaning. And many jokes followed.

Seriously, who thought of this? They could have called it 'cornbag' and it would have come out with greater appeal.

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Imagine my reaction one day, driving down to Cinci, when one of the billboards for a travel stop proudly declared 'YES! WE HAVE CORNHOLE!'