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I think we've all been disillusioned at some point in our lives. We grew up thinking the world was a place of fairness and that those in power had our best interests at heart. Well, we all have to grow up sometime and learn that things aren't as they appear, and maybe people are mostly out for themselves. An event that rocked my reality was when I was driving cross country, I was entering into South Dakota and was on the look out for places of interests to stop. I recalled seeing something on television about the corn palace. "A corn palace, interesting." I recalled thinking to myself. Even though it was out of my way I decided to go see this American roadside wonder. After hours of speeding through the Dakota country side I came to Mitchell, South Dakota. It was the largest town for quite a ways, and I can only conclude that the existence of the maize citadel naturally draws people to it, like some sort of sleeping eldritch god. I finally arrive and can hardly believe my eyes. What I had anticipated, a giant marvel of zea mays construction, was nothing more than a corn fort. The name palace conjured the thought of a Kremlin, stacked far and wide with rows of cobs. What I got was a corn community center. Hardly worth the extra hours on my trip. Certainly not worth the lodging of some parallel reality mid western monarchy, and only slightly worthy of a community theatre adaptation of "Some Like it Hot" that receives high marks for originality, but suffers from a lack of cohesive vision. The experience wasn't one I'd like to repeat, but the knowledge that somethings are best left to linger in the imagination stayed with me, and now with regards to cobs, I'm much more skeptical.
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I thought we were supposed to gently caress off with the cob threads Real post: I detasseled corn one summer when I was 14 and that was awful
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| # ? Jan 2, 2013 19:28 |
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They don't do the typewriter 'ding' sound when you get to the end. Why did you lie to me, Mickey Mouse. edit: doubleposted and undoubleposted right in front of my eyes wtf forums. PlantRobot fucked around with this message at Jan 2, 2013 around 19:32 |
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I ate a cob once and some corn got stuck in my teeth. I had to floss them out later it was a pretty negative experience.
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| # ? Jan 2, 2013 19:28 |
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Seaniqua posted:I thought we were supposed to gently caress off with the cob threads I thought cobs were ok, it's the "Corbs" we have to watch out for.
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| # ? Jan 2, 2013 19:30 |
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I really don't know how things are in america, but here in europe I've literally never had to deal with cobs.
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| # ? Jan 2, 2013 19:30 |
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I once had a cob of corn that was sickeningly sweet because it was too ripe or something, the rest of my family refused to believe me and would make fun of me whenever I had corn after that.
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Rynder posted:I thought cobs were ok, it's the "Corbs" we have to watch out for. Whoa dude, lets not start a corb derail.
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| # ? Jan 2, 2013 19:31 |
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Mods???
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| # ? Jan 2, 2013 19:31 |
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The same words used to describe Ty Cobb can be used to describe this thread. "...daring to the point of dementia."
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| # ? Jan 2, 2013 19:33 |
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The Angry Colossal posted:I once had a cob of corn that was sickeningly sweet because it was too ripe or something that was a banana
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| # ? Jan 2, 2013 19:33 |
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I visited the old LA Zoo a couple of days ago, and some jerk had left cobs all over one of the cages! Seriously, there were at least fifteen cobs. Who eats that much corn??
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| # ? Jan 2, 2013 19:34 |
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I once grabbed a cob, not realizing that it was still very hot. I later found out that I was supposed to use the little holders that stab into the side, Man was I embarrassed.
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| # ? Jan 2, 2013 19:36 |
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There was that time that Leno stole COB's airtime. 
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| # ? Jan 2, 2013 19:37 |
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I once got a cob stuck up my rear end after trying to wipe with it. No one at the ER believed me and none of the nurses would look me in the eye. 
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| # ? Jan 2, 2013 19:38 |
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Maybe this should go in E/N, but...I almost always feel compelled to eat the kernels off in straight lines. Like, if I don't do it, I worry that I'm ruining the cob. Same thing with eating the kernels all the way down to the cob--if I leave anything on the cob it's like I've wasted food and then I feel guilty. Do I have a problem? Should I seek therapy? Or maybe sever?
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| # ? Jan 2, 2013 19:39 |
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One time I threw a cob into a fire and it had the nerve to explode into white fluffy things instead of just burn. You can't trust cobs.
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| # ? Jan 2, 2013 19:40 |
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MegaGatts posted:zea mays My negative experience with a cob is that you didn't format that scientific name properly.
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| # ? Jan 2, 2013 19:41 |
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iSheep posted:I ate a cob once and some corn got stuck in my teeth. I had to floss them out later it was a pretty negative experience. Yeah I had this issue a lot. Eventually stopped eating corn because it was just so annoying to have to immediately floss my teeth afterwards. Also looking at my poop with corn in it was pretty gross.
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| # ? Jan 2, 2013 19:41 |
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In an attempt to be... something, a guy I used to know smoked a corncob pipe. I enjoy inhaling the thick smoke of fragrant plants, so I gave it a try. I gotta say, I was not impressed. The draught was less than expected, my sense of self was more douchey than Popeye the Sailor Man-y, I would recommend that people other than farmers steer clear of corncob pipes. However, I will only eat corn if it is on the cob. So just realize that one bad cob doesn't spoil the bunch.
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| # ? Jan 2, 2013 19:43 |
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In Britain a cob is a butty, I was expected a discussion of baps and barms.
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People used to wipe their butts with corn cobs. I can't imagine that was pleasant. Hopefully some of them will come by to talk about it.
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lattitude posted:In Britain a cob is a butty, I was expected a discussion of baps and barms. PYF favourite baps.
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| # ? Jan 2, 2013 19:45 |
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I enjoy corn on the cob. But sometimes you take a bite and you bite too deep and get that gross fleshy stuff instead of just sweet kernels.
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| # ? Jan 2, 2013 19:46 |
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I use the stick of butter and just slide the end of the stick up and down the entire cob, using the stem end of the cob as a holder to administer the buttery goodness. Then I salt the entire thing and eat it, typewriter style. The negative experience of doing this was the yelling and screaming I would be the recipient of when my wife noticed all the corn silk mashed in with the stick of butter (that I had decided in my mind was now the official Ear of Corn Stick of Butter for future cobs) but then she realized that administering buttery goodness using my method was practical and started doing it instead of her method, which was to butter a slice of bread. You don't always have bread AND cob, you smell what I'm stepping in?
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| # ? Jan 2, 2013 19:47 |
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Once my dad came home toting somewhere in the vicinity of 300 cobs of corn. We asked him how he acquired it, but his only explanation was "because I have such a great face." So we shucked, boiled and bagged 300 cobs of corn. It took so long, I had to eat cereal for dinner that night. Cobdammit.
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| # ? Jan 2, 2013 19:48 |
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They always get stuck in my teeth. I DONT KEEP FLOSS IN MY POCKET ASSHOLES.
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| # ? Jan 2, 2013 19:49 |
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I wish the assholes on the county planning board would repave the highway out from my house; poo poo is rough as a cob.
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| # ? Jan 2, 2013 19:50 |
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Trouble Man posted:PYF favourite baps. Post you are favourite favourite baps. What is your fave Automated Teller Machine machine?
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| # ? Jan 2, 2013 20:00 |
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crazkylo posted:I once grabbed a cob, not realizing that it was still very hot. I later found out that I was supposed to use the little holders that stab into the side, Man was I embarrassed. I remember in the nineties when these were a thing and every tiresome jerk thought it would be 'in' and 'hip' to say how they didn't need tiny skewers IN THEIR DAY because back then they had HANDS.
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| # ? Jan 2, 2013 20:05 |
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Modern dekerneling technology has completely tipped the struggle between man and cob in man's favor.
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| # ? Jan 2, 2013 20:14 |
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Nebraskan corn is better than Iowan corn.
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| # ? Jan 2, 2013 20:17 |
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Wiping with a corn cob not as good as advertised.
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| # ? Jan 2, 2013 20:23 |
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You should have waited for a year they had all the corn colors for their murals.
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| # ? Jan 2, 2013 20:23 |
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I rode a cob once. It wasn't very enjoyable.
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| # ? Jan 2, 2013 20:26 |
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AKA Pseudonym posted:People used to wipe their butts with corn cobs. I can't imagine that was pleasant. This is true, but I don't think Tokaii is even that old. Maybe someone really rural?
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| # ? Jan 2, 2013 20:27 |
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People still come to South Dakota for reasons other than that we have job openings for stuff? I guess I can kinda understand going west river for the Sturgis rally and Mount Rushmore and stuff, but East river? why did you come east river?
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| # ? Jan 2, 2013 20:27 |
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Last summer I wanted to purchase some bicolor sweet corn on the cob, but the farmer's stand didn't have any and I had to settle for some crappy white sweet corn from the grocery store.
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| # ? Jan 2, 2013 20:28 |
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For Christmas I got a caramel popcorn cob. It's just a bunch of carmelcorn shaped into a cob. It was pretty cool to look at, but it wasn't the best taste.
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I broke half of my front tooth out when I was 11 and when I was 25 or so the cap broke off while I was eating corn on the cob. It whistled when I talked for a week until I got it fixed for like $1000. 
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