alan halvorson
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Well, fall is nearly upon us and that means one thing (among many others) - CORN MAZE! For those not familar with this, it's simply a maze laid out in a corn field. The corn is planted in the spring in the form of the maze and when the field has matured in the fall, people are allowed in (for a fee!) to try and figure it out. It's a gas, at least to me.
These have become quite popular in my area. There are five, or maybe six, mazes less than an hours drive from my home. Originally they were started to supplement the farmers income when corn prices hit rock bottom a few years ago. It doesn't take much time or investment to create or to run a maze, and the farmer gets to harvest the field at the end of the season.
I went through my first corn maze several years ago. The theme was a T-Rex and it was very well done. The following year it was the Titanic, which was even more frustrating. It's one thing to figure out a path by looking at a map (if you cheat) and quite another doing it when you're in the midst of corn rows that all look pretty much alike. After a while, you can get a general idea of how the thing is laid out, but that still doesn't prevent you from taking dead ends or going around in circles. Eventually, you must come out. If it was a difficult maze, you feel victorious; if it was an easy one, you feel cheated. Either way, you've wasted a couple hours and, basically, accomplished nothing, but I've done that many times.
Anyone else?
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They're coming to take me away, ha-haaa!!
They're coming to take me away, ho-ho, hee-hee, ha-haaa To the funny farm. Where life is beautiful all the time and I'll be happy to see those nice young men in their clean white coats and they're coming to take me away, ha-haaa!!!!!
- Napoleon XIV
[Edited last by alan halvorson on September 19, 2001 at 05:53 PM]
These have become quite popular in my area. There are five, or maybe six, mazes less than an hours drive from my home. Originally they were started to supplement the farmers income when corn prices hit rock bottom a few years ago. It doesn't take much time or investment to create or to run a maze, and the farmer gets to harvest the field at the end of the season.
I went through my first corn maze several years ago. The theme was a T-Rex and it was very well done. The following year it was the Titanic, which was even more frustrating. It's one thing to figure out a path by looking at a map (if you cheat) and quite another doing it when you're in the midst of corn rows that all look pretty much alike. After a while, you can get a general idea of how the thing is laid out, but that still doesn't prevent you from taking dead ends or going around in circles. Eventually, you must come out. If it was a difficult maze, you feel victorious; if it was an easy one, you feel cheated. Either way, you've wasted a couple hours and, basically, accomplished nothing, but I've done that many times.
Anyone else?
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They're coming to take me away, ha-haaa!!
They're coming to take me away, ho-ho, hee-hee, ha-haaa To the funny farm. Where life is beautiful all the time and I'll be happy to see those nice young men in their clean white coats and they're coming to take me away, ha-haaa!!!!!
- Napoleon XIV
[Edited last by alan halvorson on September 19, 2001 at 05:53 PM]
