Wednesday, September 19, 2007

There can be only one

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Maggie, Ben, Lindsey,Lee Ann, and I went down to Winston, Oregon, for the Highlander Games.
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Normally, Winston's mascot is the cheetah, however, for one weekend a year the whole city of Winston worships this cut out of a man lifting a log instead.
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I think this one actually IS The Highlander.
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Apparently the people at the gate (who subsequently took $8 from each of us) forgot to mention that the fair was mostly over and that the Highland Games had ended several hours ago.
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Several drunken men in kilts, decide that even though the games were closed they would still throw the log around.
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Surprisingly, this is not the most exciting sport to watch.
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This was the Grand Prize trophy.
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A list of some of the games we had missed.
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I believe this band, as well as all bands performing at the Highlander Festival, had "Ye Olde" in their names.
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This man had a sheet of linoleum for jigging on.
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There were two bands playing at the Highlander Festival. This is one of them.
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This may be the other one.
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I think this woman was confused and thought it was ren-fair.
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Unfortunately, the Highlander festival was not at all like the movie The Highlander.
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They were serving haggis though.
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The festival did provide a jolly bagpipe player though (bagpipe player is to the left of the frame).
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This man with a 4-wheeler was very drunk.
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This blurry figure was wearing a pelt and had a large knife.
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The man to the right kept going around shouting "There can be only one!"
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I don't know if there are laws to prevent drunk 4-wheelin'.

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Gabriel Burian-Mohr