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Tim Walz Under Fire for Allegedly Inflating Bag Toss Score at Family BBQ in 1998

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10mo ago

Tim Walz Under Fire for Allegedly Inflating Bag Toss Score at Family BBQ in 1998

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Don't give them ideas, HT…
His brother already shared that his "big story" was no one wanted to sit next to Tim on road trips as a child because he used to get car sick.
- The Hard Times
  
  Edited. Thanks!
- Is that real? That legitimately sounds like an Onion article itself.
  
  https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jeff-walz-tim-walz-brother-carsickness_n_66d8ae04e4b09a3ee66d3568
  Walz had implied in his Facebook posts that he had stories suggesting that his younger brother isn’t “the type of character you want making decisions about your future.” But in the segment Wednesday, he admitted to NewsNation that he didn’t have any political bombshells ― just some stomach-turning anecdotes.
  “Nobody wanted to sit with him, because he had car sickness and would always throw up on us, that sort of thing,” Walz said. “There’s really nothing else hidden behind there. People are assuming something else. There’s other stories like that, but I think that probably gives you the gist of it.”
  
  It’s real. Surprised that didn’t make it to nottheonion right away. Maybe I missed it.
- I knew it! Tim Waltz, you're going down.
"Bag toss" lol
Satire site doesn't wanna say cornhole?
- However, the governor will not be apologizing for calling it ‘bags’ instead of ‘cornhole.’”
  
  Lol, fair. Didn't click through to read it.
- I'm a gay northerner who moved to Georgia many years ago. When one of my co-workers said he was going to go play cornhole with his buddies, I asked if I could come too.
  Needless to say, I was terribly disappointed.
  
  I've always thought corn hole was receiving unlubricated anal sex. Is that correct?
  
  Disappointed because lack of butt stuff, or because cornhole is a really boring game?
  I'd believe either.
- My wife calls it 'bags'. Hung my head low the day I found out.
  
  I was 35 before I heard it called anything but bags. I only found out it’s called cornhole (because I guess the bags used to be filled with corn?) because I was at a bar, and it was on. On ESPN. That’s also the day I learned ESPN will show just about anything that can be classified as a sport or game when there aren’t major sports events going on.
  I laughed for a solid several minutes about it. (Thankfully I was not by myself or I’d have looked like a nutter)
- It’s addressed in the article but the game has several regional names. Cornhole is one of them.
  
  We all just called it "beanbag toss" when I was a kid, but now people from the area have switched to calling it cornhole.
- Saying pop vs soda can get you killed in some places. This ain't shit.
  
  Soda weirdos are the ones calling it bags.
- Fake midwesterners!
- "bag toss" also sounds kind of dirty to me
  
  Hah, kinda.
- to be fair, unless you're using corn cobs it ain't really cornhole
- Growing up in the midwest, we always called it “bean bag toss.” I remember someone calling it “bean bag golf.” shrug
- I just assumed some global megacorp had finally managed to get "Cornhole" through the trademark office and started suing everyone into oblivion. Must be time for an internet break to rebalance the pessimism.
I saw the headline, and I automatically assumed that this was an actual "scandal" that Fox News was cooking up.
It took me way too many bites of this onion to realize what I was eating. Well done.
Conservatism has become identical to parodies of conservatism.
- I got to family bbq and I was like what, why does this even matter…. Yes. Nice job onion
Now I finally understand the "both sides are the same" folks
Such a scandal! He must step down now! There can be no compromise on ethics for Democratic candidates!
- He inflated the score by 2 points only. What a loser. Well he won, but you know what I mean. Don would have inflated the score by 145 points. He's the best inflater, nobody inflates like he does. He has inflated so much that he had the biggest inflation ever. Ah fuck, you know what I mean.
  
  No. Do tell.
And Harris still chose him! They are trying to cover up #cornholegate
/S
Tim Walz inflated the score of the other team because they weren’t doing so well.
- WeLfArE StAtE!
  
  ParTiCIpaTIOn mEdALS!
I can see it now. Years into the future, a weird Republican coalition in Congress: "But his bag toss!" "Where's Tim's real score?"
As the country burns.
Mother fucker won't get away with this!
I'm a Republican that does their Own Research and this article PROVES Tim Walz is a HORRIBLE Person and only TRUMP who had an affair while his Wife was Pregnant is Fit to Lead the Country!
Next you're gonna tell me the fish he caught on a fishing trip in '99 was slightly smaller than he described. Outrageous.
That's it! I'm voting Trump. Where do I register as a Dutch citizen?
The Onion is fake news! It wasn't Walter Mondale who did the photo op in the tank. It was Michael Dukakis. FAKE NEWS
In other words doing dad stuff. Sounds like the "opposition" is against fatherhood now
Well that settles it, I'm voting for the Buff.
I know a lot of yous don't read past the headline, so rest assured he had a good reason. His cousins were starving, so he inflated his score to end the game sooner and put the snags on the barbie. Everyone in the family forgave him when he put on a bloody ripper apron that was painted to make him look like he was budgie smuggling.
Bags by itself sounds weird, but beanbags doesn't bother me.

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