KSU, racism and the Cawker City Twine Ball ....(a life's work)

[pondwater jack]

So far there have been many things about KSU that have improessed me.  But this is the most impressive thing i have seen to date.

Just how big is the ball of twine? Look at these figures:

17,980 pounds  Almost 9 TON !!!
40 foot circumference
Over 7,827,737 feet of sisal twine
1,444 Miles

Frank Stoeber started this ball of twine on his farm in 1953. By 1957 it weighed 5,000 pounds, stood 8 feet high, and had 1,175,180 feet of twine on it. Stoeber gave the ball to Cawker City in 1961 before his death in 1974.

The Cawker City Community Club is the official owner/caretaker of the Ball of Twine. Each year a twine-a-thon is held in conjunction with the annual Cawker City picnic cook-off, and parade, so the ball never stops growing. The picnic and parade are on the third Saturday in August, with the twine winding being held the Friday before.

The ball of twine is located in "Downtown" Cawker City right along Wisconsin Street (Highway 24) on the south side of the highway. It is half a block west of Lake Drive, but you shouldn't have any trouble finding it (After all, this is a small town and a big ball of twine).  While you are here, Take the Masterpiece Twine Walk at our fresh-air art gallery on the main street of Cawker City.  Follow the TWINE painted along the sidewalks to see paintings displayed in store front windows and find the TWINE in each painting.

Passing through Cawker City? Stop by. Check out our Ball of Twine. Who knows? Maybe you'll be impressed.
Call or Email Linda Clover and she will have twine available, so you too can add to the size of the ball.

 

For more information, contact
The Cawker City Community Club
P.O. Box 178, Cawker City, KS 67430
Phone: (785)-781-4713, or (785)-781-4470 after business hours
E-mail: [email protected]

Back to:  Cawker City 

[the KHAN!]

Been there, parents took me after my cousin's funeral. Way to be an incentive ass and bring up painful memories.

[pondwater jack]

That settles it then.  You Arkanas fans need to pipe down until you can come up with something more exhilirating than devoting your life to a gaint ball of twine!

Can we top that in Arkansas?  Didn't think so.  So we all need to pipe down and learn from our host about life in the fast lane.  So Shut up and quit makin us look like we have nothing better to do with our lives.

J. Holly Blasingmame, II

[pondwater jack]

Been there, parents took me after my cousin's funeral. Way to be an incentive ass and bring up painful memories.

Look Khanny.  I'd like to take this opportunity to tell you that I am sorry for bringing up the Cawker City twine ball. ....but I'm not gonna.  The fact is that was pretty lame of your parents to take you there. You deserved batter champ!  What you need is  a pep talk and Jack Blasingmae is gonna be the one to pull you out of this funk.

Before I can compose such an inspirational talk I'll need some background.  Why in the hell did they take you there?  To motivate you?  Did you go to the festival?  Dance with all the girls with the bows in thier hair?  That what happened?  Why after a funeral did they take you to see a ball of yarn? 

Heelin people, one at a time,

J. Holly Blasingame, II

[pondwater jack]

I would like to apoligise.  I have clearly offended you all.  That was never my intention.  I didn't realize how sensitive a topic the Cawker City Twine Ball was in Kansas.  When we in the state of Arkansas find ourselves driftin toward that topic in conversation, (which happens frequently) we perhaps haven't given it the reference it deserves.  I didn't realize how cras I mush have sounded.  I am angry at myself.

Jack Blasingame, II

[pondwater jack]

I would like to call ON ALL Arkansans to post something about the Gawker City Twine Ball as a sign of respect to our opponents!

[Dugout DickStone]

This dude is trying incredibly hard.   Caps tipped.

[kso_FAN]

Tread careful here. I grew up less than 10 miles from this marvelous tourist attraction. And don't forget to stop by Jaybird's Chicken just a couple blocks away for some good eats.

 

[pondwater jack]

This dude is trying incredibly hard.   Caps tipped.

Kiethstone, the last thing that a racist bigot like Jack Blasingame   wants to do here is offend the good people of Kansas!   Not me!  I have nothin but respeck for anyone who has givin their entilre lives to seein howmany times they can walk around the yarn ball.  If ever there was a worth cause that is it.  

Jack Blasingame is LOCKSTEP with the good people of Kansas on this issue!  No the cotton bowl?  We'll have to part ways there.  But on the giant ball of yarn that your good citizens have devoted their lives to, well it has become the Mount Rushmore of the Midwest.  

Humbled and in awe,

Jack Blasingame, II

[Dugout DickStone]

Like I said...

[pondwater jack]

Tread careful here. I grew up less than 10 miles from this marvelous tourist attraction. And don't forget to stop by Jaybird's Chicken just a couple blocks away for some good eats.

 

I'm treadin!  I'm treadin!  Believe me.  I can only imagine all the things there is to do when youget there.  

#1  Have your picture made with the gigantic ball of yarn.
#2  Marvel at the gigantic ball of yarn
#3  Talk about the gigantic ball of yarn
#4  Read about the gigantic ball of yarn
#5  Ask other tourists, people from far and wide....across the waters....where they have come from to see the gigantic ball of yarn
#6  Buy souveeneers of tiney balls of yarn that look, not unlike, the gigantic ball of yarn
#7  Buy a teeshirt.  On the front?  You guessed it.  A gigantic ball of yarn.
#8  Walk right up and touch this mid-American wonder!  A gigantic ball of yarn.  

You tell me these motherfuggers don't know how to have a good time?!  That right Arkansas?  With your Fouke Monster!  To hell with that!  Who wants to be tirelessly pursued by a bigfoot thru southesat Arkasnas when you can sit and stare that hte MARVEL OFTHE MIDWEST!  A REAL GEM OF THE HEARTLAND!!!!  A GIGANTIC BALL OF YARN!!!

I am humbled.  

Jack Blasingmae, II
Chairmen for the Committee on Yarn Preservation

[kso_FAN]

Tread careful here. I grew up less than 10 miles from this marvelous tourist attraction. And don't forget to stop by Jaybird's Chicken just a couple blocks away for some good eats.

 

I'm treadin!  I'm treadin!  Believe me.  I can only imagine all the things there is to do when youget there. 

#1  Have your picture made with the gigantic ball of yarn.
#2  Marvel at the gigantic ball of yarn
#3  Talk about the gigantic ball of yarn
#4  Read about the gigantic ball of yarn
#5  Ask other tourists, people from far and wide....across the waters....where they have come from to see the gigantic ball of yarn
#6  Buy souveeneers of tiney balls of yarn that look, not unlike, the gigantic ball of yarn
#7  Buy a teeshirt.  On the front?  You guessed it.  A gigantic ball of yarn.
#8  Walk right up and touch this mid-American wonder!  A gigantic ball of yarn. 

You tell me these motherfuggers don't know how to have a good time?!  That right Arkansas?  With your Fouke Monster!  To hell with that!  Who wants to be tirelessly pursued by a bigfoot thru southesat Arkasnas when you can sit and stare that hte MARVEL OFTHE MIDWEST!  A REAL GEM OF THE HEARTLAND!!!!  A GIGANTIC BALL OF YARN!!!

I am humbled. 

Jack Blasingmae, II
Chairmen for the Committee on Yarn Preservation

You missed the most important one; in the town of Cawker lives an artist who likes to paint famous paintings from throughout history and then insert (you guessed it) an image of the ball of twine. So as you walk up and down the expansive main street in many of the (empty) store windows you see the Mona Lisa... with a ball of twine. American Gothic... with a ball of twine. Etc.

[bigwillie20]

I remember my 1st beer

[pondwater jack]

Tread careful here. I grew up less than 10 miles from this marvelous tourist attraction. And don't forget to stop by Jaybird's Chicken just a couple blocks away for some good eats.

 

I'm treadin!  I'm treadin!  Believe me.  I can only imagine all the things there is to do when youget there. 

#1  Have your picture made with the gigantic ball of yarn.
#2  Marvel at the gigantic ball of yarn
#3  Talk about the gigantic ball of yarn
#4  Read about the gigantic ball of yarn
#5  Ask other tourists, people from far and wide....across the waters....where they have come from to see the gigantic ball of yarn
#6  Buy souveeneers of tiney balls of yarn that look, not unlike, the gigantic ball of yarn
#7  Buy a teeshirt.  On the front?  You guessed it.  A gigantic ball of yarn.
#8  Walk right up and touch this mid-American wonder!  A gigantic ball of yarn. 

You tell me these motherfuggers don't know how to have a good time?!  That right Arkansas?  With your Fouke Monster!  To hell with that!  Who wants to be tirelessly pursued by a bigfoot thru southesat Arkasnas when you can sit and stare that hte MARVEL OFTHE MIDWEST!  A REAL GEM OF THE HEARTLAND!!!!  A GIGANTIC BALL OF YARN!!!

I am humbled. 

Jack Blasingmae, II
Chairmen for the Committee on Yarn Preservation

You missed the most important one; in the town of Cawker lives an artist who likes to paint famous paintings from throughout history and then insert (you guessed it) an image of the ball of twine. So as you walk up and down the expansive main street in many of the (empty) store windows you see the Mona Lisa... with a ball of twine. American Gothic... with a ball of twine. Etc.

All class.  all class.  I don't know much about fancy painitings.  I tried to sell a hot painting I got one time and I got arrested.  That was years ago.  Water under the brige.  But i think the town of Cawker City has sucked the necter out of thisone.  They have figured out just about any way possible to market this ball of twine. 

Now the good people of Nebagamon, Wisconson say that they have the bigger ball.  Which of these two furry balls is the biggest?  Who can say?  Both are engorged and ready to exploed!  But I would have to give the nod to the MARVEL OF THE MIDWEST.....wait for it.......THE CAWKER CITY TWINE BALL!!!!!!

Jackson Holly Blasingame, II
Twine Commissioner

[hawginar]

I would like to call ON ALL Arkansans to post something about the Gawker City Twine Ball as a sign of respect to our opponents!

Twine??? Your talking about twine? In Arkansas we are forward thinking. Come and find yourself a diamond.
Whats next, the lint museum in Lint Valley???

www.craterofdiamondsstatepark.com/

[pondwater jack]

I would like to call ON ALL Arkansans to post something about the Gawker City Twine Ball as a sign of respect to our opponents!

Twine??? Your talking about twine? In Arkansas we are forward thinking. Come and find yourself a diamond.
Whats next, the lint museum in Lint Valley???

www.craterofdiamondsstatepark.com/

Where is Lint Valley?  Is that in Kansas because google didn't show.

[sonofdaxjones]

Usually pretty good bird hunting around Cawker City . . . used to see  lot of pigaggie license plates around there during bird season.

[pondwater jack]

Usually pretty good bird hunting around Cawker City . . . used to see  lot of pigaggie license plates around there during bird season.

You wanna know what I think really draws em in?

[sonofdaxjones]

Usually pretty good bird hunting around Cawker City . . . used to see  lot of pigaggie license plates around there during bird season.

You wanna know what I think really draws em in?

Probably the opportunity to be around rural folks with actual money.

[EMAW4life-JHL]

Usually pretty good bird hunting around Cawker City . . . used to see  lot of pigaggie license plates around there during bird season.

You wanna know what I think really draws em in?

eff you

[pondwater jack]

Usually pretty good bird hunting around Cawker City . . . used to see  lot of pigaggie license plates around there during bird season.

You wanna know what I think really draws em in?

eff you

By damned you I'll bet wouldn't say that to me if I was right there by you !  Twine Ball or not.  that gets my hackles up!

Fightin Mad

Jack Blasingame, II

[EMAW4life-JHL]

Usually pretty good bird hunting around Cawker City . . . used to see  lot of pigaggie license plates around there during bird season.

You wanna know what I think really draws em in?

eff you

By damned you I'll bet wouldn't say that to me if I was right there by you !  Twine Ball or not.  that gets my hackles up!

Fightin Mad

Jack Blasingame, II

im shaking in my boots.

[pondwater jack]

Usually pretty good bird hunting around Cawker City . . . used to see  lot of pigaggie license plates around there during bird season.

You wanna know what I think really draws em in?

eff you

By damned you I'll bet wouldn't say that to me if I was right there by you !  Twine Ball or not.  that gets my hackles up!

Fightin Mad

Jack Blasingame, II

im shaking in my boots.

real brave across the internet!!!  Internet tough guy!  You think becasue you got a giant ball of yarn and we don't that you can shout damned obcinities at us?!  That right?  By damned Jack Blasingame don't take it!  I got a good mind to come up there an dole out an ass whippin to you, tough guy. 

[EMAW4life-JHL]

Usually pretty good bird hunting around Cawker City . . . used to see  lot of pigaggie license plates around there during bird season.

You wanna know what I think really draws em in?

eff you

By damned you I'll bet wouldn't say that to me if I was right there by you !  Twine Ball or not.  that gets my hackles up!

Fightin Mad

Jack Blasingame, II

im shaking in my boots.

real brave across the internet!!!  Internet tough guy!  You think becasue you got a giant ball of yarn and we don't that you can shout damned obcinities at us?!  That right?  By damned Jack Blasingame don't take it!  I got a good mind to come up there an dole out an ass whippin to you, tough guy. 

ooooooookkkkkkkkkaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy bbbbbbiiiiiiittttcccchhhhhhhh

[pondwater jack]

do you kiss your momma with that mouth?  Shameful.  You talk real big over the internets.  But why don't you say where you are? 

I'll bet you'd piss in your britches if I came up and grabbed you by the scruff of the neck while you were typin your curses!  YYEEELLLPPP!!!! MOMMA!!!!! HELP!!!!  This damn Pigaggie has me!  Piss runnin out in the floor, stainin the carpet!   Hahah. makes me laugh to think about it.  post your cusses little man.  It's all you got.  We both know what would happen if I was there.

J. Holly Blasingame, II