Comments on: Giant baseballs of Austin http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2007/04/23/giant-baseballs-of-austin/ Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:11:03 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: I.M.Mature http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2007/04/23/giant-baseballs-of-austin/#comment-55225 I.M.Mature Tue, 24 Apr 2007 23:04:41 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2007/04/23/giant-baseballs-of-austin/#comment-55225 Jezebella-- Perhaps. Byron's towers aren't shaped like peaches, and do not resemble giant looming butts. For big butt towers one has to go to where they live, either Gaffney SC on I-85 or Clanton AL on I-65. There was, as I recall, a false peach cleft awkwardly affixed to the water tower in Perry, GA on I-75, seemingly a crude and unconvincing effort to imitate the Gaffney Peachoid. I don't know if it's still there. Wikipedia mentions it but I can't find any pictures. Frankly to me it looked more like a vagina than either a peach cleft or a butt crack. Many people misremember the location of the Gaffney Peachoid, particularly if they see it on their way to Atlanta on I-85. Which is why I remain fairly confident that Frigga's Own means the one in Gaffney. Describing it as made to resemble a peach and instead resembling a giant looming butt pretty much clinches it. As it were. So to speak. Jezebella–

Perhaps. Byron’s towers aren’t shaped like peaches, and do not resemble giant looming butts. For big butt towers one has to go to where they live, either Gaffney SC on I-85 or Clanton AL on I-65. There was, as I recall, a false peach cleft awkwardly affixed to the water tower in Perry, GA on I-75, seemingly a crude and unconvincing effort to imitate the Gaffney Peachoid. I don’t know if it’s still there. Wikipedia mentions it but I can’t find any pictures. Frankly to me it looked more like a vagina than either a peach cleft or a butt crack.

Many people misremember the location of the Gaffney Peachoid, particularly if they see it on their way to Atlanta on I-85. Which is why I remain fairly confident that Frigga’s Own means the one in Gaffney. Describing it as made to resemble a peach and instead resembling a giant looming butt pretty much clinches it.

As it were. So to speak.

]]> By: GenderBlank http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2007/04/23/giant-baseballs-of-austin/#comment-55109 GenderBlank Tue, 24 Apr 2007 20:50:15 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2007/04/23/giant-baseballs-of-austin/#comment-55109 Giant, decaying ball? Check. Phallic symbol at half mast? Check. Marginalized military surplus store? Check. My, my, Twisty. You've captured the decline of American masculinity beautifully. Giant, decaying ball? Check. Phallic symbol at half mast? Check. Marginalized military surplus store? Check. My, my, Twisty. You’ve captured the decline of American masculinity beautifully.

]]> By: Jezebella http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2007/04/23/giant-baseballs-of-austin/#comment-55083 Jezebella Tue, 24 Apr 2007 20:23:20 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2007/04/23/giant-baseballs-of-austin/#comment-55083 Nope, there's more than one giant peach out there. Byron, Georgia's got one and there are no doubt more. I mean, this is a state where the biggest city consists entirely of Peachtree Streets, Avenues, Thruways, Routes, and Lanes. Nope, there’s more than one giant peach out there. Byron, Georgia’s got one and there are no doubt more. I mean, this is a state where the biggest city consists entirely of Peachtree Streets, Avenues, Thruways, Routes, and Lanes.

]]> By: I.M.Mature http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2007/04/23/giant-baseballs-of-austin/#comment-55074 I.M.Mature Tue, 24 Apr 2007 20:14:28 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2007/04/23/giant-baseballs-of-austin/#comment-55074 Frigga's Own wrote: There is at least one water tower in Georgia that is made to resemble an enormous peach. ... Almost certainly you're referring to the water tower in Gaffney, South Carolina. See: http://www.gaffney-sc.com/Waterpeach.htm It used to be a landmark on road trips, known within the family as "the big tushie." Frigga’s Own wrote:

There is at least one water tower in Georgia that is made to resemble an enormous peach. …

Almost certainly you’re referring to the water tower in Gaffney, South Carolina. See:

http://www.gaffney-sc.com/Waterpeach.htm

It used to be a landmark on road trips, known within the family as “the big tushie.”

]]> By: Antoinette Niebieszczanski http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2007/04/23/giant-baseballs-of-austin/#comment-54691 Antoinette Niebieszczanski Tue, 24 Apr 2007 12:43:53 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2007/04/23/giant-baseballs-of-austin/#comment-54691 Here I thought it was a doppler radar installation. Kitschy roadside attractions remind me of my (mostly happy) childhood. Seeing them fall into disrepair and decay saddens me. I cried the day the put the chains on the gates leading to the Blue Hole in Castalia, Ohio, the scene of many a one-tank trip (there was usually a picnic involved) when I was a wee one. Here I thought it was a doppler radar installation.

Kitschy roadside attractions remind me of my (mostly happy) childhood. Seeing them fall into disrepair and decay saddens me. I cried the day the put the chains on the gates leading to the Blue Hole in Castalia, Ohio, the scene of many a one-tank trip (there was usually a picnic involved) when I was a wee one.

]]> By: TP http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2007/04/23/giant-baseballs-of-austin/#comment-54266 TP Tue, 24 Apr 2007 03:08:34 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2007/04/23/giant-baseballs-of-austin/#comment-54266 Such a perfectly neutral wash of grey. Do you print these beauties, too? Such a perfectly neutral wash of grey. Do you print these beauties, too?

]]> By: curiousgyrl http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2007/04/23/giant-baseballs-of-austin/#comment-54245 curiousgyrl Tue, 24 Apr 2007 02:43:35 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2007/04/23/giant-baseballs-of-austin/#comment-54245 Spider House! Spiderbyte! Spider House! Spiderbyte!

]]> By: Frigga's Own http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2007/04/23/giant-baseballs-of-austin/#comment-54063 Frigga's Own Mon, 23 Apr 2007 23:07:02 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2007/04/23/giant-baseballs-of-austin/#comment-54063 Sometimes army surplus stores aren't crapulent, but instead are the best place to get a cheap and durable duffle bag or really nice pocket knife. Though, I will admit, they all tend to be rather squalid and are frequently run by people that the NRA would conscider to be reactionaries. There is at least one water tower in Georgia that is made to resemble an enormous peach. Unfortunately for Georgia, what it actually resembles is a gigantic looming butt, which usually leads us to cast aspersions on the character of the surrounding countryside. Sophmoric it may be, but perhaps colored by the time we spent stranded in the state awaiting car repairs. Sometimes army surplus stores aren’t crapulent, but instead are the best place to get a cheap and durable duffle bag or really nice pocket knife. Though, I will admit, they all tend to be rather squalid and are frequently run by people that the NRA would conscider to be reactionaries.

There is at least one water tower in Georgia that is made to resemble an enormous peach. Unfortunately for Georgia, what it actually resembles is a gigantic looming butt, which usually leads us to cast aspersions on the character of the surrounding countryside. Sophmoric it may be, but perhaps colored by the time we spent stranded in the state awaiting car repairs.

]]> By: Bertalou http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2007/04/23/giant-baseballs-of-austin/#comment-53933 Bertalou Mon, 23 Apr 2007 20:10:01 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2007/04/23/giant-baseballs-of-austin/#comment-53933 They serve apple pie at the "crapulent army surplus store"? They serve apple pie at the “crapulent army surplus store”?

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