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Ego tripping
Sep. 15th, 2005 10:53 pmThe good people at the Noorat and District Agricultural and Pastoral Society slipped a supplement into the local paper today, calling for entries in the Noorat Agricultural Show. I'm not a competition-enterer myself (although I did win Best Embroidered Bag at the Warrnambool Agricultural Show with a school project when I was twelve), but I do enjoy reading the categories. What manner of politicking and lobbying resulted in the Handcrafts section splitting weaving into class W21: Sea Grass Weaving and class W22: Article of Weaving, other than Sea Grass?
So there I was, perusing the booklet and imagining poultry farmers urging their chickens to lay, lay, lay so they could crush the opposition (not literally) with their Twelve Heaviest Hen Eggs - Open (class R18)*, when I saw the following announcement:
Would you like to sponsor a class in the 2005 Noorat Show?
For only $30 per class you could have your name in print on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd prize cards and sponsors (sic) posters of selected sections. If you sponsor again in 2006 your name will also appear in the show schedule for 2006.
When I read that I discovered a lifelong dream to sponsor a sporting event. I imagine that it costs quite a lot of money to sponsor, say, the Australian Open tennis tournament. But for a paltry thirty dollars, I could be immortalised by the todayiamadaisy Container of 10 Mixed Daisies competition (class T25). Imagine the pride of the goat breeder who wins the AJ Daisyname Trophy for Best Udder (class P1x)! Or the gardener who takes the Memorial Alicia Sash for the Best Three White Turnips (class S9)!
Oh yes, I'm giving it some serious consideration.
* The egg section also contains classes for:
Imagine how ticked you'd be if you had eleven heavy white eggs and your hen laid a really heavy brown one. Dreams of victory in class R19 shattered.
So there I was, perusing the booklet and imagining poultry farmers urging their chickens to lay, lay, lay so they could crush the opposition (not literally) with their Twelve Heaviest Hen Eggs - Open (class R18)*, when I saw the following announcement:
Would you like to sponsor a class in the 2005 Noorat Show?
For only $30 per class you could have your name in print on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd prize cards and sponsors (sic) posters of selected sections. If you sponsor again in 2006 your name will also appear in the show schedule for 2006.
When I read that I discovered a lifelong dream to sponsor a sporting event. I imagine that it costs quite a lot of money to sponsor, say, the Australian Open tennis tournament. But for a paltry thirty dollars, I could be immortalised by the todayiamadaisy Container of 10 Mixed Daisies competition (class T25). Imagine the pride of the goat breeder who wins the AJ Daisyname Trophy for Best Udder (class P1x)! Or the gardener who takes the Memorial Alicia Sash for the Best Three White Turnips (class S9)!
Oh yes, I'm giving it some serious consideration.
* The egg section also contains classes for:
- Twelve Heaviest Hen Eggs - Fresh, No Double Yolks, White Shells, Owner with 20 hens or under (R19);
- Twelve Heaviest Hen Eggs - Fresh, No Double Yolks, Brown Shells, Owner with 20 hens or under (R20); and
- Twelve Heaviest Duck Eggs (R21).
Imagine how ticked you'd be if you had eleven heavy white eggs and your hen laid a really heavy brown one. Dreams of victory in class R19 shattered.
