Things You Can Get Banned For

“I went to the circus tonight and they had these pony rides. I paid for a quickie ride for my son. I wonder if I should by him a pony. He has an hour of therapeutic riding every saturday, but its on this great big old man of a horse. He rides it ok, but he looks so much more proportional on that tiny pony.”

“[insert animal beastery joke here]”

“I love the circus. When I was a senior in my undergrad work I applied to Ringling Bros/Barnum and Bailey's Clown College. It was the strangest application I ever filled out. Unfortunately, I was not accepted. They had about 3500 applicants for about 40 slots. But it would hav been grand.”

“Many of you crack me up. How many posts are there, here or on the other (other) side, in which we have someone complaining that 'I got warned because I mentioned sarge' or 'I got banned for baiting sarge but that (bleep) is still posting'? LOL. Anyone else notice that pattern?

I'm not sayin' anything.....I'm just sayin'.”

“well STOP just sayin!


oh I forgot to say MORNIN”

“I don't think the latest rounds of people talking about the emails about stop baiting some baitable person is people complaining. They just think its funny. Heck they might not even be from elise. they could be fakes. I hope so then that person could get banned for oing that”

“It WAS funny, like a time or two - but if you still think it's funny ... maybe you should reconsider. It's beyond old.”

“i've suffered from tinnitus for as long as I can remember, but some days it worse than others.”

“Rev, that's quite a revelation.”

“What is the old saying about one bad apple?”

“chili - are you going to keep this up too?”

“The provoking would stop if people weren't so easily provoked.”

“amen, pass the plate”

“Oh I see toejam - It's my fault it's going on because I'm asking for it to stop ... Got it.

Only problem is - when I stopped posting for FIVE months, it continued, so your theory is wrong.

Nice try though.

Looks like the reality is there is a certain handful of people who are just completely obsessed with me, and don't mind ruining this website because of their misplaced obsession.”

“chili, what do you have against clowns? Why do you call them bad apples?”

“i think he was talking about carrying lots of fruit on a long distance hike...if you have just one bad apple in your pack the rest of the fruit is going to rot”

“I thought he was talking about rev wanting to go to clown college”

“someone google punching the clown”

“Clowns are mostly bad apples. That's why cannibals won't eat them... they taste funny.”

“Unhand that weasel!”

“I thought it was because too many cannibals choked on the big shoes.”

“I did go on to clown professionally for a while, but not for the circus. *<|:?(

Ringlings has changed the Clown College program now and it is only for performers already touring with the shows. Missed my golden opportunity.. pooh.”

“The clowns at the cole bros circus last night were a lesser breed than the clowning that used to occur.”

“The good ones are all on trail talk.”

“We've been having problems here in NW Arkansas with clown gangs....

they're ruthless”

“Clowns scare the crap outta me. :-\”

“I recently came into some extra coin and spent it by renting a clown. I really underestimated the creepiness.”

“Any time I came into extra coin, the first person I thought about renting wasn't a clown...”

“since you already came into the coin, why did you need to rent anyone ;)”

“Stop clownin' around, Chili.”

“I always seem to have extra coin”

“The unemployed Spitzer clowns are giving discount deals.”

“tenjen, were those once chili's coins?”

“Didn't some of you clowns dance around a fire someplace with a wearing coin belt?”

“chili? never heard that name before in my life.”

“Cole Bros is a lesser Circus unfortunately. Once Clyde Beatty died the quality of that troupe really declined. Although is it is fun to experience a circus in a tent. The last time Ringlings used a tent was when it toured Japan. The only arenas that would hold a large enough audience were the sumo arenas but the doors entry doors were not big enough to allow the elephants in. Yes elephants _are_ bigger than even the biggest sumo wrestlers.”

“lilmountaingirl... lots of people are afraid of clowns. and yeah some of the local clowns can be profoundly creepy. The best way to find a good one is through a local clowning organization. COA (Clowns of America) and WCA (World Clowning Assc) keep records of member clubs. Go with the best. But the best ain't cheap.”

“yeah, I agree Coles brothers have gone downhill. Last night they were calling it the largest circus under the big top. I assumed they meant they were the last circus to not start renting halls to have their events :).

It was sad to watch, one of the motorcyles in the cage layed his bike down when doing slow circles on the bottom half of the cage. Another performer almost fell off this revolving wheel thing several times. The tumblers had to try some of their tricks several times before they got them right. The animal act with a horse (get you mind out of the gutter) where the cowboy tries to put his saddle on but the horse pulls off the blanket when he turns his back. the horse would take 3 or 4 tries before getting the blanket off. and so on.”

“plus i think the elephant's trunks were fake”

“They are the largest circus regularly under the big top. lots of other small regional circuses use tents, but not as big. The 1 elepahnat circus comes to mind. I believe it is out of NY somewhere and they have, you guessed it... 1 elephant. Tents, while they are a major pain to use are cheaper than halls and set up the same way all the time, some thing the local high school gym does not always permit. Plus you can get the height needed for things like the highwire and trapeze. The aerial acts are frankly my favorite except for a very seldom seen act called the "slackwire". It is a vanishing art but extremely difficult to master and marvelous to watch if you know what you are looking at.

Sounds like you got a particularly bad show. That's a shame cause even Cole Bros should be better than that.
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“I remember when a small tent circus came to Sitka, Alaska in the mid-70's. The exotic bird act was comprised of half a dozen birds morphologically (first time that word appeared on TT, I'll bet) resembling sea gulls, but were each dyed a different color. Whatever they were supposed to do, they didn't.

What literally brought the tent down was an old and very small elephant who couldn't stop farting. Being confined to the small tent, it was a little more toxic than in a larger space. After a short while, everyone went home.
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“C-span has a circus every day , tune in folks. Lot of little old elephants farting.”

“To me, clowns aren't funny. In fact, they're kinda scary. I've wondered where this started and I think it goes back to the time I went to the circus and a clown killed my dad.


~Jack Handy”

“LOL @ Noncon

I hate clowns...but I love Jack Handy.

"If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is "God is crying." And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is "Probably because of something you did."”