Wow, you would think after nearly two years of warning, that the general population would be able to pronounce Foxfield correctly. They can’t. 95% of the people who say Foxfield pronounce it with an S at the end. Foxfields is incorrect, shows you are a poser and pretty much means you contribute nothing to one of the most exciting events in Charlottesville.
Don’t believe us? Read our amazingly awesome 2008 preview which discusses everything from the notorious piss trough to our favorite drink. For this year, ask your Foxfield questions in the comment section, and we’ll be sure to answer them in a zany followup post.
P.S. The Extra Special Student Complaint! This year we have two new police rules: (1) you don’t have to wear 21+ armbands and (2) you have to carry booze into Foxfield in 14″x14″x14″ container which, unless you can shrink wine bottles, you’ll have a seriously difficult time not breaking the rules.
Best comment we read from a Cavalier Daily letter to the editor:
Maybe the event planners should realize that however much they like to delude themselves, Foxfield Races are a party for the students and if they want to continue inconveniencing us so much that we have to be checked for ID every 5 minutes by someone, we will keep our $40 and drink at home for free and they will see greatly reduced attendance.
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The problem with that quote is that is not Foxfield that keeps changing policies and making things harder it’s the ABC and the police….they keep hoping if they make things more of a hassle people will not come and then they can close down the event and not have to deal with it anymore….
In fact, if you haven’t heard about the even more idiotic new policies for the races this year you’re in for a big surprise. I went to pick up my parking passes and such and opened the envelope to find that all the tickets are like concert tickets, not the little passes on a string you tie to your dress or button hole of your shirt or whatever. So I asked Bobby Wells who is head of ticketing AT Foxfield what the deal was. She informed me that this year they will take EVERYONE’S ticket at the gate, scan it, and give each person a color coded arm band as they come into the races….
Can we say traffic jam?
She informed me while imparting this information that it was not Foxfield’s idea to change things and that they felt things had run very well the way they had been.
VaGodiva:
Thanks, I heard that too.. I see a lot of angry students complaining about not being able to move freely between the green/orange sections. I can’t imagine why they thought this was a good idea.
I also wonder where I can get a 14×14x14 cooler. Those seem like odd dimensions.
Step 1: Buy box wine
Step 2: Remove box
Step 3: Stick wine bag in purse
So take that booze size restrictions!
More time in traffic = less time to drink at the races?
=More time drinking in car
you phrased that first rule inaccurately. it’s not you don’t “have to” wear 21+ armbands; it’s that you *have to* carry your ID around & produce it whenever asked.
Can individual tickets be bought at traditional places anymore? It seems like they’re all through MusicToday and include ridic service charges and shipping fees!
@7 If there was only some way we bypass those nasty “service fees”, you know like someone on the inside.
Perhaps with some jockey silks I can just walk in the place?
@7- I think you can still scoop them up at Mincer’s on the Corner and any of the Greenberry’s in town.
The have them at the FSMall service desk too. You don’t have to pay fees if you get off your ass and go pick them up.
So let me get this straight, you are bound to the section in which your ticket is for this year? As Chad Day said “I see a lot of angry students complaining about not being able to move freely between the green/orange sections.” Isn’t this a bit problematic as the food, vendors, etc are typically in the top of the Orange section. How will people from the blue, gree, pink, purple and whatever other pastel color they add the day of the race support those vendors if they can’t escape their assigned area?
Second thought 14″x14″x14″= 2744 in³ = 1520.484 fl oz= 11.8787812 US gallons So just buy your handles and poor them directly into the cooler, because even the most qualified drinkers can not put away 11 gallons in a day. (Yes is realize this probably breaks some other insane ABC laws)
who caresssssssssssssssssssssss how people pronounce foxfield(s)?
I don’t know what they are doing with the sections, that’s just my guess and I’ve heard it now from more than 1 source.. why issue armbands in the first place if they aren’t planning on changing the policy?
I don’t get it. You can’t get to the green section ANYWAY without going through other sections.
Hi:
I work for cvillain.com, make little to no money and am bitter about life. SO, I get mad when people add an ‘S’ to a word and then write a bitchy post about it. My Mom really likes it though, so I’m going to keep doing it!
@7-9-10 hm, the website said they’re only available online & at the foxfield office. i was wondering if there was some different (i.e., not greenberry’s, mall, mincer’s) policy in the spring. no?
Mincer’s and Greenberry’s definitely still have some. The Mall doesn’t have any right now and the Dominion Saddlery doesn’t think they’ll have any.
i can’t wait to fingerbang some floozy in a porta-john and then throw up all over my seersucker pants!
Excuse ME?
@16: Stay away from our plot, fish fingers.
@14 – tear tear burn burn
/got humor?
Dammit Dingles, you fucked the numbers up. @19 is now @17, not @ myself.
Hey Mr. Dingles. You’re looking pretty sexy today.
issue with the cav daily quote – the races are hardly a party FOR the students – it’s a party the students happen to enjoy and have a tradition of attending. . . . i’d hazard a guess that the revenue from ballers, i mean folks in the purple section, outweighs whatever # x $40 comes in from the drunk college kids. if the students quit coming, i wonder if more sponsor-types could be enticed?
as for the ssss – reminds me of the far hills races in jersey where those who don’t know, (but think they do,) call it “the hunt.” there is no hunting, just like there is no extra s. nobody cares, it just makes those who call it the hunt/foxfields sound like losers.
@19 i always carry a bottle of waterless hand sanitizer just in case. meet you at the pizza hut truck by the infield rail in the orange section. i’ll be the guy in madras shorts with a popped collar. you can’t miss me.
i love foxfields. and i’m from charlottesville, born and raised, then went to uva where i loved foxfields even more because no one enjoys foxfields like uva students and alumni. then i moved away from cville a few months ago and i just came back to this site, and i see that nothing has changed. you all are still talking about the same things. and i say foxfields. foxfields foxfields foxfields.
@14 Dingles are you guys hiring? I’ve in the market for a job and I love Foxfields, so I figure this is the place for ME!
Also, does anyone know why it’s called Foxfields? I mean, there aren’t any foxes and there’s only one field? Shouldn’t it just be called Field Party Fingerbang Bonanza Blast 2009? Oh i mean Fields Parties Fingerbangs Bonanzas Blasts 2009s . . . whoops, forgot the “s”
Thor, I love you
@24: How many times do I have to tell you that’s not a suitable lubricant? Sheesh.
well, since there’s one in the spring and one in the fall (no?), doesn’t saying foxfields imply that you’re going to both and, thus, not incorrect?
/not going to foxfields…
Dear Hater Annihilator:
Mr. Dingles thinks you should be more careful when getting finger banged in the port-a-potty at Foxfield(s) this year; there’s a reason that guy didn’t call…
I@29: But I saw the hot pink shirt and seersucker pants and thought it was you, Mr. Dingles!
Which is correct: “shenanigan” or “shenanigans”?
/We need Lilith’s answers to awkward questions
I feel like someone put something bad in my drink.
I’m just trying to help everyone be more cool and sound like they actually know things.
For instance, other examples of you sounding like a moron:
Crozet: Crow Zet (instead of Crowsay)
Staunton: Stawton (instead of Stanton)
Mas: Maz or Mace or Maas (instead of Maws)
if the students stop coming (they won’t) adults will probably come back
who wants to party with adults? adults are no fun. they have kids and mortgages and husbands and wives and that is NO FUN.
–NOT 30 FOR A LOOOOONG TIME
We need Lilith’s answers to awkward questions
No. No we don’t.
@ 34 ….more moron pronunciations for the collection: It’s Stanardsville, NOT StanDardsville…….Monticello, NOT MontiSello (That one’ll brand you forever as illiterate.) It’s Albemarle, NOT Aa-a-albemarle, ad infintum.
Yeah, yeah, I know….you can lead a whore to culture, but you can’t make her think.
Thanks 4 keeping the faith, Thor. Next!?
@ 38: I always have a soft spot in my lil Belmont heart for MontiSello, cuz that’s the way my neighbor (who has lived in the same house since way before I was born (and that’s way before any of you were born) says it. A lot of old time Cvillers pronounce it that way.
Respect your elders, respect the (real) locals.
/an almost local
I am a real local; my family has been in this area for almost 300 years.
Yes, some people do pronounce it MontiSello, but they’re either transplants or didn’t have the benefit of a lot of things that most of us take for granted. The proper pronunciation is, and always has been, Monti-CHello. Just sayin’
….and what does the forward slash in a post mean? I see it a lot. Just curious.
@ 39 My next door belmont neighbor, who is 70+ and has lived in the same house off and on since he was 4, says MontiCHello. He watched Eisenhower trip down MontiCHello Road (not ave) when it was highway 20 and paved with dirt for cryin out loud.
Whom shall I respect? Shall we have an elder caged death match? Cause that would be… well… nevermind.
/and in this corner…
Love your twisted humor, Belmont!
@42 that would be almost as messed up as the miami heat’s “golden oldies” dance team.