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1. Sooo anyway I was at a farmers market or a NE or Iowa county fair vender barn, and this being in the eighties ...

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Wed Feb 25, 2026, 11:18 PM

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... filled with Emu eggs, meat, feathers, Emu chicks and all sorts of scams. I'm just there for the free candy, pens, yardsticks, koozies, key chains etc. Got stopped just once too much by a lady trying to give me a smear of Emu oil for my hands, I said, "No thanks, my emu doesn't isn't squeaking."

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Emmanuel and Kevin the Emus are always getting into trouble [View all] Figarosmom Feb 25 OP

Sooo anyway I was at a farmers market or a NE or Iowa county fair vender barn, and this being in the eighties ... marble falls Feb 25 #1

Yeah I remember those days Figarosmom Feb 25 #2

Dinosaurs! UTUSN Feb 25 #3

They do kind of have a velociraptor thing going on Bayard Feb 25 #4