is it before or after the pig races and the watermelon seed spitting contests ?

That only happens at the county fair in September.

Don't be weird.

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That's the half time entertainment.

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Jeez CH, leave Hawg alone. The guy lives in the middle of nowhere Wisconsin for Christs sake! What else is he supposed to do between the end of the friday night fish fry and reporting to work at the refinery monday morning at 6am?

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The so called suburbs around Pittsburgh are really like a series of connected small towns almost independent. I live in one out a bit on the line between suburb and redneck and Friday night football is a blast. Just as described above but even better as the open end of the stadium has old style taverns across the street. Oops I missed the 3rd quarter.

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I went to high school in Wisconsin, which I survived by the skin of my teeth. It was not a particularly good school: we were woefully underfunded to the extent that the roof leaked in several places and so on or after rainy days, you had to walk around giant garbage bins collecting rainwater in the middle of the hallways. This isn't even getting into the quality of instruction, which, even in a pre-Scott Walker world, I suspect lagged far behind our friends on the right side of the state line. Because Wisconsin realigned its school athletics so that Catholic and public schools would be in the same conferences, our school was little more than a tomato can for Kenosha and Racine's Catholic schools, which recruited BIG BLACK STUDS to whip us with their wangs. Dan Bernstein would have been in paradise. I was in the pep band, so I had to witness the carnage night after night (at least until halftime).

So with this in mind, how can I be expected to have had any school pride from 2000-2004, to say nothing of the years thereafter? And while yes, maybe I'm being a little melodramatic about how awful it was to play Walk Around The Bucket between classes every day and to watch our crappy basketball team get Globetrotted every night, I've always been under the impression that high school is a generally unpleasant time for most people, and to graduate is a huge relief. Why hang on to the sports side of it if you don't know the kids?

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Hence why Dan hates/can't understand it.

High School and College were great times for me, and I think Curious you have seen a lot of the answers as to why people do. Granted I see it is not for you and that is ok, but I don't think there was any reason to respond the way you did.

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So does that mean you prefer the company of men if you watch the NBA? After all, it is grown, athletic men who run around in shorts and a tank top. Unless of course, you have a child or a relative who plays in the NBA.

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I've been through this before. I don't expect everyone to have the same kind experience I have but maintaining strong ties with my high school is great for business and civic activities. I attend more professional events at the school than sporting events but I bet I go to 1-2 sporting events per year. It's not like I'm feverishly looking up box scores in the paper on Saturdays. The game itself is an opportunity for cheap family entertainment where the kids are safe to run around with little supervision and I have a chance to socialize with old friends on the weekend. No one is particularly concerned with outcome of the games.

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Yeah, but you went to a Catholic school in Chicago. A small, poverty-ridden public school in Wisconsin is something to be categorically disavowed the moment you can. People ask where I'm from, and I tell them "I grew up in Arlington Heights" or "my family is from Northbrook." I don't want people to think I'm some fucking cracker.

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You sure are a angry soul, I am sorry about that.

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Is that true?

Let's say, hypothetically, I came from some rinky-dink grade school in a town of 85 people where everybody in my class ended up in jail at one time in their life or another, all 12 kids, except me and another kid that currently works for NASA, hypothetically. I'd tell that to everybody as a point of pride. Those aren't easy places to get out of, in theory.

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A gated community is not jail, Dr Ken.

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But I didn't spend my whole childhood there, and the rest of my family stayed in the area, so for me, it's not a matter of being proud of making it out so much as always having to reflect on what I could have had and what my cousins (Schaumburg, Hinsdale) did have. I mean, to circle back to the topic here, if I had stayed in my neighborhood and gone to Hersey, I still wouldn't give a flying fuck about Hersey athletics after I left, but maybe I wouldn't find it completely unconscionable that someone out there could.

Look, it's a tough transition to go from a gifted school to a strong public school to one where your teacher is chastising the class on your first day in town because everyone scored so poorly on state exams that the whole school district had basically been labeled functionally illiterate. I don't recommend it.

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That's true.

I was just theorizing. I grew up in Kenilworth sleeping on pillows filled with money every night.

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I was hoping you and Dan had the same NASA contact.

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What the hell else was I supposed to do when I went back to Rockford?

The soccer matches/football were a better time than the reunions.

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You do sound very Bernsteinish on the issue, CH. Not everyone is so jaded about their high school experience. I loved HS. I loved college. I don't attend games in my home town anymore. Living four hours away makes that kind of tough. But I certainly don't begrudge anyone for choosing to do so.

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So, if you couldn't completely unconscionable that somebody could, why all of the bullshitting comments to me?

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Because you haven't won a Major.

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Damn you, I hope you turn Ditka orange from your Orange Chicken at lunch.

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That would be cool. If one day on the show Dan knows more than he should about the uses of superconductivity for purposes of propulsion and plasma confinement for power generation in space vehicles, I'm going to raise an eyebrow.

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Ha, Ha...loser

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Trust me, some were not family! Actually, will say MOST were not family. His Family was siting close to me.

This was a group of HS Buddies and there families, flying 'Wilmington Colors"

and I wish I had a Mr NT Contest T shirt! That was one of the best nights EVER! EVER! The guy who lived across the street from me won the first won ever, I got benefits as a FRosh!

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The pep band at my school wore shirts that said "Pep Banned". Man, were they edgy.

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