I admit, I'm pretty much an old school gay guy and not familiar with all the ins and outs of modern, um, tailgating, but I have congregated in a few stadium parking lots.
I've enjoyed the sausages and burgers and horseplay before the game, and even behaved ways in public I would later regret, but I never did, or heard of anyone (much less anyone running for the second highest office in the Nation), doing this:
Ryan, a Miami alum, attended the game earlier today, where he chatted with tailgaters, played a game of corn hole, flipped some burgers and took pictures with excited fans, according to one pool report. politico
emphasis mine
I'll plunge in a bit deeper after the squiggle.
I was busy giving POLITICO hell for not covering LyinRyan's admission that he lied about his marathon time and has been caught.
Eventually they gave in and wrote up the story, though they gave him the complete benefit of the doubt that it was a "misstatement."
They provided no background or information on how he was forced to correct his blatant lie.
Is this a commonly accepted name for some sort of game now? Cause that's NOT what "corn holing" was to me, a nearing 60 year old gay Iowa guy who collects ceramic corn and corn sculpture, which I keep nestled away in curios my partner and I refer to as "CORN HOLES" when no one else is around. I have some great vintage pieces, and a couple of wonderful sculptures done by friends.
Seriously though, other than on Bevis and Butthead, I have not heard much about corn holel or games of corn holes, especially in the modern political press up until I read this today.
So, enlighten me please, friends.
Just what sort of corn holer is Paul Ryan, and can his sort marry each other?
9:06 PM PT: UPDATE: POLITICO has addressed my concerns of the homophobic and misogynistic providence of the phrase "corn hole" by removing the space so it now reads "cornhole." Silly me.