On the campaign trail yesterday trying to woo farmers, John F. Kerry told this snort-worthy tale:

“When I was 12 years old, my passion was being allowed to go out and sit on the John Deere and drive it around the fields and plow. And I learned as a kid what it was like looking back and see those furrows, and see that pattern and feel a sense of accomplishment, and end up dusty and dirty and tired, but feeling great, looking back at that field that you’d plowed,” Kerry said.

He’s been driving around in circles ever since.

We also learn where Kerry apparently picked up the F-word:

During the discussion of agricultural issues, the senator said he lived on a farm when he was very young and had “learned my first cuss word sitting on a tractor with the guy who was driving it.”

Earthy, dude!