State Fair to hold vote on Jackson sculpture
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DES MOINES — Plans for a Michael Jackson butter sculpture at the Iowa State Fair are churning up so many comments that the fair is putting the question to an online vote.
The fair, known for its yearly butter cow, announced days after Jackson’s death June 25 that it would spotlight the King of Pop.
Fair spokeswoman Lori Chappell says Jackson was to be part of a butter sculpture of the 40th anniversary of Neil Armstrong’s moon landing, but the fair’s original announcement only mentioned Jackson.
Chappell says because of the overwhelming response about the Jackson sculpture, both positive and negative, the fair will conduct an online poll from Thursday to July 16. People can vote at www.iowastatefair.org. Results will be announced July 17.
The fair is Aug. 13-23.
The fair, known for its yearly butter cow, announced days after Jackson’s death June 25 that it would spotlight the King of Pop.
Fair spokeswoman Lori Chappell says Jackson was to be part of a butter sculpture of the 40th anniversary of Neil Armstrong’s moon landing, but the fair’s original announcement only mentioned Jackson.
Chappell says because of the overwhelming response about the Jackson sculpture, both positive and negative, the fair will conduct an online poll from Thursday to July 16. People can vote at www.iowastatefair.org. Results will be announced July 17.
The fair is Aug. 13-23.
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(Un)fortunately, the website www.collegehumor.com has a series of hyperlinks titled "Ruin a Poll" that its viewers can click on in order to, well, ruin a poll. I frequent this site quite often, and was somewhat pleased to see that the Iowa State Fair made it to the website. What did College Humor ask its viewers to do in order to ruin the poll? It had everyone vote YES for the creation of a Michael Jackson Butter Sculpture.
I usually view the end results of every College Humor "Ruin a Poll" events, and there are generally thousands, or even tens of thousands, votes for the requested answer. Unless the webmaster of this website notices that the voters all came from College Humor, I'd say we're definitely going to see a saturated fatty acid sculpture of Michael Jackson.