Chandler
Arizona
At this annual bash celebrating the southern Arizona tradition of ostrich ranching
revelers can cheer on their preferred bird during a 50-minute ostrich Race and then down an ostrich burger—presumably one not made of the losers.
鴕鳥節
在亞利桑那州舉行
壹年壹度的美國亞利桑那州南部的鴕鳥狂歡節上，狂歡者可以在限時50分鐘的鴕鳥賽跑中為他們寵物加油，並得到壹個鴕鳥漢堡——不過那可不是用輸掉比賽的鴕鳥肉做成的。
World Championship Punkin Chunkin
Bridgeville，Delaware
How far can you chunk a pumpkin? Each November
petitors in this contest use catapults
centrifugal spinners
and other homemade contraptions to launch an eight- to ten-pound pumpkin as far as mechanically possible. The record: 4
483.51 feet
扔南瓜世界錦標賽
在特拉華州的布裏奇維爾舉辦
妳能把壹個南瓜扔多遠呢？每年的11月份，參賽者都會用壹些自制的工具，比如大彈弓滑輪等把重達8磅到10磅的南瓜盡可能地向遠處拋。目前的最佳紀錄是4
483.51英尺。
Kiic Sculpture Race
Baltimore
Maryland
Is it art—or transportation? Both
it turns out
when human-powered sculptures cross sea
mud
and sand in an eight-hour
15-mile race along the city’s Inner Harbor each May. Past award winners have included o Elvis impersonators in a car nicknamed Hunk a Hunk of Burnin’ Junk.
動感雕塑大賽
在馬裏蘭州的巴爾的摩舉行
那是個藝術品還是個交通工具呢？答案：都是。每年5月參賽者要沿著市內海灣大約15英裏的距離，用人力打造的工具在8小時內穿越海洋，泥地和沙地。上屆獲勝者是兩位貓王的模仿者，他們駕駛壹輛由廢舊物品組裝的名叫“帥哥”的小汽車奪冠。
Frozen Dead Guy Days
Nederland
Colorado
When Grandpa Bredo Morstoel died in 1989
his cryogenically minded family packed him in dry ice and placed him in a shed to await a cure for death. This annual March party honors him with a hearse parade
kid coffin races
and frozen turkey bowling.
冰封死人節
在科羅拉多州的尼德蘭小鎮舉行
當格蘭德.布雷多的爺爺在1989去世時，其崇尚低溫生活的家人(編者按：布雷多家族來自挪威)把他用幹冰包裹起來安置在棚屋裏，期待未來的某壹天出現起死回生的方法。為表示尊敬，在每年三月舉行的派對上都會出現靈車遊行，嬰兒棺材賽跑和冷凍火雞保齡球比賽等活動。
Sputnikfest
Manitowoc
Wisconsin
In September 1962
a chunk of glowing debris from Sputnik 4—one of the first Earth-orbiting satellites
launched by the Soviet Union—fell from the sky onto a street in downtown Manitowoc. The Russians reclaimed the piece
but the town hosts an annual festival to memorate its arrival. Highlights: a Miss Space Debris contest—costumes made out of aluminum foil are mon—and an Artta This World art fair.
人造衛星節
在威斯康星州的馬尼托沃克舉行
1962年9月，人造衛星4號的殘骸從太空墜落到馬尼托沃克的街道上，這個衛星是前蘇聯發射的第壹批人造地球衛星中的壹個。雖然後來俄國人要回了殘骸，但是這個小鎮每年都要紀念壹下這顆衛星的造訪。註意！這不僅是為紀念壹顆隕落衛星的競賽，因為參賽者要身著由鋁箔做成的服裝，更是壹場世界藝術盛宴。