Up north, it's this

Tried, but couldn't find the Freak Brothers' tumbleweed cartoon, so I'll just post this:

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Tried, but couldn't find the Freak Brothers' tumbleweed cartoon, so I'll just post this:

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God damn I love the Freak Brothers comics! Fat Freddy's Cat and his ass

God damn I love the Freak Brothers comics! Fat Freddy's Cat and his ass


As someone who never really did anything stronger than beer.....surprisingly, I find the Freak Brothers hilarious, and have two bound volumes of the comics.

When we went to Galway, Ireland, we ate pizza at a "Freak Brothers" pizza shop, complete with FB life-size artwork.....

Kansas - The only state in the country where you can sit on the back porch and watch your dog run-away for 3 days.

/loves driving across Kansas
// hates the toll road

Suuuupertrucker: Kansas - The only state in the country where you can sit on the back porch and watch your dog run-away for 3 days.

Western Kansas, sure.

/loves driving across Kansas
// hates the toll road

What, all 35 miles of it on I-70?

Am I the only one that read that as tomato season?

bandy: Suuuupertrucker: Kansas - The only state in the country where you can sit on the back porch and watch your dog run-away for 3 days.

Western Kansas, sure.

/loves driving across Kansas
// hates the toll road

What, all 35 miles of it on I-70?

Get past Topeka and you can open it up.

/wishes a Tornado would wipe out the WBC compound
//wouldn't stand in line to piss on them if they were on fire

lefty201: Am I the only one that read that as tomato season?

no.

While driving through S. Dakota, the car in front of me caught fire. Turns out a tumbleweed got caught under the car and the hot exhaust pipe set fire to it. Learned that day to never run over the bloody things.

Some locals gather big ones... for substitute Christmas trees.

What a strange but interesting idea. I just may order one for my winter solstice celebration.

/hot like the 'stache

Nothing will freak you out like driving through the desert of West Texas at night and having a huge tumble come out of the darkness and roll at your car.

kokomo61: God damn I love the Freak Brothers comics! Fat Freddy's Cat and his ass


As someone who never really did anything stronger than beer.....surprisingly, I find the Freak Brothers hilarious, and have two bound volumes of the comics.

When we went to Galway, Ireland, we ate pizza at a "Freak Brothers" pizza shop, complete with FB life-size artwork.....

I have a few but not enough

Suuuupertrucker: Kansas - The only state in the country where you can sit on the back porch and watch your dog run-away for 3 days.

/loves driving across Kansas
// hates the toll road

My girlfriend had to drive through Kansas this summer to get back to school for the fall. The only two things of note she mentioned to me were:

1. "I've never seen such a disturbingly high density of anti-abortion billboards in my life."
2. "What the farking hell is 'Rock Chalk Jay Hawk'???"

/no she's not a basketball fan

Breakfast time.Cookie go rustle up some tumbleweeds to start that there kitchen fire for some eats.

My husband & I moved to Dodge City last year. I couldn't believe it when I saw my first tumbleweed. It is like an old west movie.

bandy
What, all 35 miles of it on I-70?

There is also I-335, not sure how long it is though...maybe 100 miles.

/weak google-fu this morning

Snoopy's Brother feeling excited

Western Kansas, absolutely.

Swear to god, some years it looks like one of those old time-y cattle drives. Tumbleweeds blowing across the road as far as the eye can see.

Especially around Elkhart, Johnson City and down into the Panhandles. I don't expect it to be too bad this year. We had a significant drought over the summer, so the bushes didn't grow as much. If we do, they'll be baby tumbleweeds about the size of cantelopes. Not the big farkers.

Eddy Albert vs. sentient tumbleweeds (new window)

When I was small, this Outer Limits episode scared the crap out of me. It's hilariously bad, of course, but what does a little kid know?

Some locals gather big ones... for substitute Christmas trees.


In the Golden Shower State, some folks gather them up and make tumblemen out of them.

/The only snow is in people's noses

When I first moved to Kansas, one of the first places i was sent ("It's broken, drive out there and fix it") was Dodge City, Kansas. I brought home a nice round tumbleweed and put it out on the little patio of our apartment, and let it spend the winter rolling around.

In the spring, I went to Terre Haute to visit my mother, and took it to her - to put out on the patio of her ground-floor condo, to roll around.

"Harold" sprouted 4-6 children in her patio, who then wandered around her patio until next year when a few more took it's place. When I went to visit her last time, I set the 2-3 she had left free to roam the wilds of Indiana.

50 years from now, when you see the articles about Indiana's "Kansas Kudzu" infestation, you'll know how it started.

\bwahahaha

Harry Freakstorm: I wonder if they'd make a good source for biofuel? I mean before they die up and detach. Afterwards, I could see them all rolling, rolling, rolling in to a huge power plant.

Tumbleweed stems are mostly hollow - like straws. Except for the very base of the stem. not much meat there. But when they come whipping across the road @ 40mph, and hit you 60mph truck, that little hard bit on the bottom will break plastic bits on the grill easily.

Hell, I saw one in Overland Park the other day. It was a small one, sure, but that's somewhere vaguely resembling civilization.

/css

Suuuupertrucker: Kansas - The only state in the country where you can sit on the back porch and watch your dog run-away for 3 days.

/loves driving across Kansas
// hates the toll road

the only good thing about driving across kansas is that once you get past Topeka you can pretty much open up and just drive.......for 500 miles until you get to Denver which the next thing worth seeing on I-70.

/There are some surprisingly pretty areas to drive through though

busy chillin': bandy
What, all 35 miles of it on I-70?

There is also I-335, not sure how long it is though...maybe 100 miles.

/weak google-fu this morning

If I can remember right, I-135 (farking toll road in the middle of nowhere) is about 125 miles long and it costs $57 for a truck to run it. I guess the Kansas Mafia hasn't got it paid for yet.

/doesnt need to hone his Google-fu skills

//still hates farking toll roads

All they are is dead bushes in the wind...

Windfoxie: Hell, I saw one in Overland Park the other day. It was a small one, sure, but that's somewhere vaguely resembling civilization.

/css

Provided CIVILIZATION == STRIP MALLS & FRANCHISES

/Where in The OP?

the_vegetarian_cannibal: Suuuupertrucker: Kansas - The only state in the country where you can sit on the back porch and watch your dog run-away for 3 days.

/loves driving across Kansas
// hates the toll road

My girlfriend had to drive through Kansas this summer to get back to school for the fall. The only two things of note she mentioned to me were:

1. "I've never seen such a disturbingly high density of anti-abortion billboards in my life."
2. "What the farking hell is 'Rock Chalk Jay Hawk'???"

/no she's not a basketball fan

There are at least three that I can think of off the bat on my job itinerary, also two with caricatures of Jesus. All bad, and creepy even to a Xian like me.

/personally thinks the three feed lots are more offensive.