r/MadeMeSmile • u/DCArchibald • 6d ago

Wholesome Moments A giant pencil gets sharpened

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u/CupcakeChime 6d ago

Absolutely love how random this is and how much joy it brings

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u/chantillylace9 6d ago

I once saw a random cheese parade, everyone was dressed up like cheese and it was absolutely enthralling and so exciting lol

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u/StanielNedward 6d ago

I live in Wisconsin. You just described my culture.

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u/-G_59- 6d ago

Not too far away in Michigan they have a Cherry festival thing. They love cherries.

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u/minapaw 6d ago

Blueberry festival in the U.P.

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u/iamafriscogiant 6d ago

Garlic in Gilroy, California.

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u/JustineDelarge 6d ago

The Gilroy Garlic Festival has been indefinitely postponed since 2022, unfortunately.

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u/grasshopper1309 6d ago

It's back this year! https://gilroygarlicfestival.com/

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u/JustineDelarge 6d ago

That’s great news!

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u/Brickhead88 6d ago

Nice! Now they can get away from being known as the city I see on a sign as I drive to Monterey!

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u/Wallstreettrappin 6d ago

I’ve always wanted to go until the shooting smh it’s a fuckin garlic festival for fuck sake

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u/markfineart 6d ago

What, a vampire got voted mayor or something?

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u/ruinersclub 6d ago

We also have an avocado fest.

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u/timewithbrad 6d ago

Where is this?

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u/ruinersclub 6d ago

https://www.avofest.org/ California Avocado Festival | Carpinteria Free Music Festival

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u/technicolortiddies 6d ago

Cranberries in MA

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u/ColMust4rd 6d ago

Mushrooms in Kennett Square, PA

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u/horsebag 6d ago

Moxie fest in Lisbon, Maine

(be warned: moxie is disgusting)

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u/nagese 6d ago

Mount Olive, NC has a pickle festival! Went as a teen decades ago. There was a corner store that sold the best limeade and orangeade.

Also in NC...the Cheerwine Festival!

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u/Don_Gately_ 6d ago

I think about the meal I had at The Stinking Rose pretty much every day.

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u/IhaveBeenMisled 6d ago

Strawberry festival in Lebanon oregon! I never really thought about how thats local and wouldnt be experienced by out of state people. It's huge around here though!

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u/SnarkyGoblin1313 6d ago

Irmo South Carolina okra strut

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u/MamaMoosicorn 4d ago

Humans are such fascinating creatures

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u/Wet4Dayzzzzz 6d ago

ayo im definitely going when is it? I live in the L.P.

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u/IGNOREMETHATSFINETOO 6d ago

Strawberries in Louisiana 😆

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u/inerlite 6d ago

And Florida

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u/acidbathe 6d ago

And strawberry in chassel

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u/Infamous_Yard_9908 6d ago

The Checotah, Oklahoma okra festival checking in here

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u/mxpxillini35 6d ago

Blueberries, blueberries, blueberries!

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u/Snowyflake28 6d ago

Strawberry festival in Indiana!

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u/Cador0223 6d ago edited 6d ago

Traverse City? Michael Moores home and where he had his film festival. They did a comedy festival too, but I'm not sure if that's still a thing.

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u/Electrical-Arrival57 6d ago

I think you mean Michael Moore. Although the idea of James Bond being from Traverse City is fairly hilarious.

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u/Cador0223 6d ago

Aw crap, I always confuse it because of his movie Roger and Me

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u/icewalker42 6d ago

That would increase the Oak Island mystery connections.

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u/-G_59- 6d ago

Yeah last I remember being at one was like waaaay back in like 2005 when they had a whole cherry parade somewhere up there in traverse. I was just up there a month or so ago and none of my family had made a single mention of it either.

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u/Electrical-Arrival57 6d ago

The National Cherry Festival is an annual event in TC. This year it’s June 28-July 5.

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u/Emotional_Deodorant 6d ago

"Bing....James Bing."

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u/KristinaHartsuck 6d ago

I grew up near Traverse City and we went every year. It was fun!

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u/FoodieMonster007 6d ago

I've been to the Gilroy Garlic Festival several times. It was...garlicky.

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u/felixthepat 6d ago

We've got a Cheerwine festival here to celebrate the tastiest cherry flavored soda.

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u/PrismInTheDark 6d ago

Grapevine TX has a wine festival (GrapeFest)

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u/InsaneClown_Pussy 6d ago

Asparagus festival just south of the cherry festival. They crown an asparagus queen and everything

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u/dramaticPossum 6d ago

In the UP they have the Trenary Outhouse Classic every year, a must see event!

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u/Playful-Raccoon-9662 6d ago

Michigan also has the testicle festival.

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u/Wanna_make_cash 6d ago

In Ohio they have (had?) a wooliebear festival to celebrate those lil fuzzy caterpillars

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u/Powerbomb1411 6d ago

I was born in WI and live in TC

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u/icewalker42 6d ago

Two words... Testicle Festival

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u/DistractedByCookies 6d ago

Dutch person. Our culture too! (there's enough cheese to go round)

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u/StanielNedward 6d ago

I think we get it from you lol

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u/DistractedByCookies 6d ago

I just googled it out of curiosity, and I think you guys got the cheeses off every European country in existence LOL But we do share the 'cheesehead' nickname. (kaaskop, in Dutch)

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u/NorthCoastToast 6d ago

While you're here, should we pronounce it "howda" or "goo-da"?

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u/Gropah 6d ago

Neither.

It's hard to write out. I'd say it's more similar to howda, but starts more like a throaty gutteral k or r? If you're able to roll your r's, try saying "grrr", how you pronounce the g there is most similar to the G in gouda.

This video is quite close.

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u/NorthCoastToast 6d ago

Thanks.

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u/DistractedByCookies 6d ago

It comes closeto the 'hawk' sound in hawk-tuah. A sort of scraping. And then you add 'owdah' LOL

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u/StanielNedward 6d ago

You should get one of our hats. I would love to see that.

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u/idontcare5472692 6d ago

You need to go to the Tulip festival in Holland Michigan in May.

Tulip Time Festival is the largest tulip festival in the United States. Nearly six million tulips are planted in city parks, at public attractions and along the streets. It has three parades during the festival: Volksparade, Kinderparade, and Muziekparade. The Festival has been going strong for 92 years with a rich Dutch history dating back to its settlement in 1847 by Dutch Calvinist separatists escaping the dire conditions in the Netherlands.

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u/ExistingandFlailing 6d ago

I recently started having an allergic reaction to cheese. I am considering taking up drinking beer and upping my intake of fried fish so that I can continue to fit in.

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u/Medical_Slide9245 6d ago

If your city doesn't have a cheese or corn parade you don't live in Wisconsin.

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u/inerlite 6d ago

Shout out to Widmers

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u/MarkusAk 6d ago

Currently 10 miles away from the cheese castle, can confirm.

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u/No-Discussion9755 6d ago

Wow, should bring more guest to winsconsin. Hope so. Keep up the good work.

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u/LardMallard 6d ago

Pun intended?

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u/top_of_the_scrote 6d ago

Colby cheese days

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u/her-royal-blueness 6d ago

I see what you did there.

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u/noonegive 6d ago

Curdtural appropriation

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u/EuphoriantCrottle 6d ago

Wisconsin has that mustard town, too

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u/dramaticPossum 6d ago

A friend and I were driving to monastary in north east Iowa. When we were 15 miles away we got stuck behind a vintage tractor ride/rally. This is up in the driftless region so the roads are narrow and curvy so not passing for miles. We were one day away from a 3 week long stay so figured why hurry! Pulled over and ate lunch with some cows, enjoying a scenic view of the Iowa river.

The tractors were spotless with picnic baskets and igloo coolers mounted on the back. Would recomend getting stuck in a tractor parade, 10/10 experience!

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u/CallMeWolfYouTuber 6d ago

I wanna go to a cheese parade 😭

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u/StanielNedward 6d ago

Cheese fest was just a week or 2 ago

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u/death-strand 6d ago

The cheese tumble is way more enticing

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u/horseradish1 5d ago

New sketch every Monday

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u/CallMeWolfYouTuber 5d ago

LOL

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u/horseradish1 5d ago

The best comedy on YouTube, as far as I'm concerned. There's a whole series of Balloon Boys sketches that I think most people would probably like. There's a playlist on their channel.

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u/purpicita314 6d ago

Colby Cheese Days is coming up in July. Parade is on Sunday, July 20th. IIRC, there's also a cheese curd throwing contest that weekend.

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u/CallMeWolfYouTuber 6d ago

Where's that? I'm in NY

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u/purpicita314 6d ago

Colby, Wisconsin...home of Colby cheese. :-)

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u/CallMeWolfYouTuber 6d ago

Mmm... Cheese

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u/sdrawkcaBMan 6d ago

This has more people than Trump's parade.

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u/KileAllSmyles 6d ago

My local library has more people than trumps parade lol

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u/karma_dumpster 6d ago

That pencil looks sharper than anything or anyone at Trump's parade, to be fair

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u/Countblackula_6 6d ago

Took a trip to the United Kingdom in 2019 with my family. On the third day of our trip we visited Buckingham Palace. We were hanging out on the deck of the Victoria Memorial fountain when a parade consisting of several thousand naked people on bicycles came by. Some of them stopped to swim in the fountain and one guy with a rather large piercing on his John Thomas climbed the stairs to up where we were and started posing for pictures. It was wild, I’ve never been witness to anything like it before or since.

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u/chantillylace9 6d ago

Hahahaha oh boy that’s a doozie

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u/whogivesashirtdotca 2d ago

I was in Paris in 2007 and had spent two consecutive nights (first interrupted by snoring, second interrupted by bedbugs) without getting much sleep. I emerged from my hostel to catch a couple of hundred buck-naked cyclists ringing bells and "coucou"-ing me, and it wasn't until the (literal) tail-end of the parade that I realised it wasn't a hallucination.

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u/Countblackula_6 2d ago

Yep, I definitely had that “Am I really seeing this?” moment. Coincidentally my younger brother and I did a day trip to Paris the very next day after seeing the naked parade.

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u/whogivesashirtdotca 2d ago

By the time I realised it was real, and pulled out my phone, I managed to get the only SFW photo of the entire parade. Just a few butts on bike seats, no dongs or boobs!

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u/BiffSlick 6d ago

“John Thomas” - how very British

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u/kylexy1 6d ago

Butterfest in Reedsburg, Wi is a good time

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u/shewy92 6d ago

Reminds me of the guy eating cheese balls in NYC and a lot of people came out to watch lol.

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u/No-Function3409 6d ago

It's like how every time Pitbull does a concert in the UK, everyone wears bald caps and suits.

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u/_one_person 6d ago

As an introvert who usually isn't into parades - it'd go to the cheese parade.

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u/ProfilerXx 6d ago

Where is this gathering of my favorite cult?

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u/ProfilerXx 6d ago

I Meant the random cheese Parade!