It was more fun watching it when the skinny Japanese guy was beating all the big fat Americans. I think Kobayashi will take back the title this year. He just beat Chestnut in a pizza eating contest.

Hey pal, get your buns outta my eyes!

...and without using the much-neglected Weiners tag? For shame, subby.

/a weiner is you
//I never sausage a missed opportunity
///sorry if I'm being a brat
////keep on punning... what have you got toulouse?

Frankly, I'm fed up with puns.

How do you pay for a hot dog in Geneva? With a Swiss frank.

Suck it, starving children in Africa!
Hot like a delicious all-beef frank

I have a feeling subby's mom would be pretty great in a hot dog eating contest, and I don't do puns.

i have to pass this on;

If you are thinking of going to this event, pick something else. Why? Because you'll see nothing except a bunch of crappy opening acts and a thousand sweating stinking people.

I went there for the event a few years ago. We got there fourty minutes before the 'noon' start time (ha ha ha ha ha) and got a spot in the crowd of about 200 near the stage.

One thing I noticed was that in front of the stage, there was a another stage. It was full of chairs and tripods. hmm... interesting.

So we sit there and for the next two hours we watch local dance groups, a horrible wannabe comedian and an EmCee Build up that is , frankly, horrible. At one point, a large contingent of persons come out of a nearby air-conditioned trailer and march up the ramp, past a guard and onto the stage-before-the-stage. They start to set up cameras and take seats and effectively ... SCREEN OFF THE WHOLE STAGE from the crows that's been waiting two hours to see this gastronomic gutfest!

The Crowd doesn't get to see anything. They're a prop used by ESPN. Go someplace else.

No tag?

rubi_con_man: i have to pass this on;

If you are thinking of going to this event, pick something else. Why? Because you'll see nothing except a bunch of crappy opening acts and a thousand sweating stinking people.

I went there for the event a few years ago. We got there fourty minutes before the 'noon' start time (ha ha ha ha ha) and got a spot in the crowd of about 200 near the stage.

One thing I noticed was that in front of the stage, there was a another stage. It was full of chairs and tripods. hmm... interesting.

So we sit there and for the next two hours we watch local dance groups, a horrible wannabe comedian and an EmCee Build up that is , frankly, horrible. At one point, a large contingent of persons come out of a nearby air-conditioned trailer and march up the ramp, past a guard and onto the stage-before-the-stage. They start to set up cameras and take seats and effectively ... SCREEN OFF THE WHOLE STAGE from the crows that's been waiting two hours to see this gastronomic gutfest!

The Crowd doesn't get to see anything. They're a prop used by ESPN. Go someplace else.

I should let you all know this.

If you are planning on going to this event, do it. Why? Because you will see something that would normally be very expensive to see for free.

I went there for the event a year ago. We got there 42 minutes before the 12pm start time (LOL) and got a spot in the crowd of about 400 near the stage.

One thing I notice was that in front of the stage, there was sign that said "Hot Dog Eating Contest".

So we sit there and for the next 1 hour we watch international dance groups, a fantastic comedian and an EMCee hype up the crowd. Frankly, it's wonderful. At one point, a large amount of people come from a bus (maybe airconditioned) and march up the ramp, past a guard and onto the stage with the sign "Hot Dog Eating Contest". They sit down and begin to scarf farking 59 hotdogs down.

The Crowd got to see everything. Frankly, ESPN is so fortunate to be ablt to bring this to millions every year.

"...you have to include every hot dog-related pun known to man."

So why didn't they, then? Only the title and maybe, by accident, "relished" that I could find.

I can only see two puns - are there not more that are known to man?

rubi_con_man: i have to pass this on;

If you are thinking of going to this event, pick something else. Why? Because you'll see nothing except a bunch of crappy opening acts and a thousand sweating stinking people.

SCREEN OFF THE WHOLE STAGE from the crows that's been waiting two hours to see this gastronomic gutfest!

The Crowd doesn't get to see anything. They're a prop used by ESPN. Go someplace else.

From Liveblogging the 2008 Nathan's Famous Contest

That sucks that you couldn't see. Looks to me like they were mostly referees who were there to monitor the competition. Don't know why you would blame ESPN.

Subby's headline doesn't cut the mustard. It's far too late to ketchup.
/I relish bad pun threads.
//Next will come the folks who say my dad should have used a condiment.

People, we have a tag for this, use it!











/eat it for the record

Damnit Fark, I had 60 in there :(

I've been to one of those. They seem to not eat the food, as drop the food. Afterward, the ground is littered with food. Food is flying in all directions as they are "eating".

The one day out of the year that I wish I didn't have HD. It's too funny to miss, but I start gagging about a minute in. So I just listen to the announcers.

Frankly, you brats gotta chipolata dogs to emerge the weiner in these contests, or you'll get taken out by some banger who got furter than you.

Somehow I wouldn't want to admit eating Nathan's wiener!

He said Wiener!

NEWS FLASH

Michael Jackson didn't die of a drug overdose.

He succumbed to food poisoning.

He got it from eatng a nine-year old weiner.