• @Garbanzo
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    424 months ago

    Me at my first rodeo:
    Roping cows is OK, but it would be a lot cooler to wrestle them.

    The people who brought me to the rodeo:
    That’s the next event.

    • @dessimbelackis
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      404 months ago

      “It’d also be pretty great to have some kids get dragged around by a sheep”

      “You’re not gonna believe this, but…”

      • @[email protected]
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        124 months ago

        “Can you imagine if we really got crazy by having guys try to stay on a bucking bronco with just one hand?”

        “Guess what!”

        • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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          74 months ago

          That was wild, but let’s see him try that with pissed off, 2500 pound bull.

  • ChihuahuaOfDoom
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    314 months ago

    What part don’t you understand? Riding bulls that don’t want you on them? Riding horses that don’t want you on them? Clowns everywhere? Racing horses around trash cans? Pulling heavy sleds with prehistoric looking horses? Tying up calves for kidnap? It all seems pretty straightforward to me.

  • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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    4 months ago

    Well, it’s bulls and blood

    It’s dust and mud

    It’s the roar of a Sunday crowd

    It’s the white in his knuckles

    The gold in the buckle

    He’ll win the next go 'round

    It’s boots and chaps

    It’s cowboy hats

    It’s spurs and latigo

    It’s the ropes and the reins

    And the joy and the pain

    And they call the thing rodeo

    • @RebekahWSD
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      54 months ago

      Thank you for awakening that sudden memory!

      • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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        44 months ago

        Coincidentally I just heard that song again a couple weeks ago for the first time in a decade. It’s a great song. I actually like it more now than I did when it came out.

        • @weariedfae
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          24 months ago

          Ropin’ the Wind was a fantastic album as a whole.

  • @[email protected]
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    84 months ago

    My first rodeo was in Grand lakes Colorado. I had just eaten a pot Brownie. 30-40mins in, at about the same time I was coming to the realization that I was indeed quite high, the rodeo clown appeared and started walking around the stands. I have never avoided eye contact with someone so hard in my life.

    But now I can unironically say, “this isn’t my first rodeo”, and I find that amusing, so that’s nice.