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The Circus is dead! Long live the circus!

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And another piece of Americana falls. :(

Not gonna make this social warrior, political, etc. Just going to express my sorrow for a child's fun day that will no longer be around.
 
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Just saw this...

Yet another sign of how much society has changed and how much I hate that change :mad:
 
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I love the passive aggressive "those gosh durned Muh-len-ee-yals and their cell phones and their ADD and their Pokemon Go" swipes in that article. Work that clickbait.
 
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Went to many of these myself as a child. As an adult, I always found it ironic that the crowds were overwhelmingly children, while the costumes worn by the female performers, if worn in pretty much any other setting, would have been scandalous.

One thing that will live on is the truth of the adage attributed (probably inaccurately) to P.T. Barnum -- "There's a sucker born every minute."
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
Let's be honest - the circus is pretty passé.
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I get the animal acts being killed. The fact that they could not find a way to make them work without cruelty really tells us something about how horrific it was for them behind the scenes. So for those acts, like dog fighting and bear baiting and other charming rituals of the past, good riddance.

But I will miss the acrobats and the clowns. They were mankind at his best.
 
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CLS said:
Went to many of these myself as a child. As an adult, I always found it ironic that the crowds were overwhelmingly children, while the costumes worn by the female performers, if worn in pretty much any other setting, would have been scandalous.
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I know, right? Sitting ringside was like being at a strip club (fair disclosure: I have never been to a strip club).
 
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I thought that something happened to Tony Hrkac. ;)

Seriously, a lot of memories from early childhood.
 
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