Everyone Loves A Sideshow!

[Moggie]

And if you can't make it up to Stampede, come on over to the Texas State Fair. We've figured out how to deep fry coke and cappuccino as well as oreos, twinkies, and snickers bars.
Just watching the things people will eat is a show in and of itself.

[Cookiesaur]

AWESOME. Why do I never get to meet the cool people?

Thanks for those links, my husband will get a kick out of them!

[magician5]

Sideshow lovers invited...

As producer of the carnival/sideshow/burlesque podcast BALLYCAST, I'd like to invite you all to listen HERE

I've got some friends you might like to meet:

SIDESHOW WORLD

Awesome photographer's blog of carnival behind-the-scenes photos at CLIFFHANGER

George the Giant HIS SITE IS HERE

The 999 Eyes Freakshow (run by real genetic anomalies) HERE

There are many more out there, and great folks like you will never be mistaken for "marks"! Enjoy!

[Bradester]

A thick slab of win with a side of awesomesauce, washed down with a tall, cool glass of pwnage.

You're a great storyteller!

[Can I Help Your A$$?]

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN STEP RIGHT UP! BEYOND THESE CURTAINS ARE WONDERS TO BEHOLD!

SEE the smart boy who can't keep a job!

SEE the cute girl who can't get a date!

I love the sideshows too! Amazing they were able to get tubetop girl. I hear she doesn't come cheap!

[morgana]

He does have a younger brother, actually, but B lives with the perpetually hunted stare of a man whose mother sees in him her last chance for grandchildren.

well, then I'd be a good chance for him to fix that. (As in, I'm fixed.)

[Cookiesaur]

He does have a younger brother, actually, but B lives with the perpetually hunted stare of a man whose mother sees in him her last chance for grandchildren.

It's too bad my husband will never actually see all this praise, because Lord knows he doesn't need any more convincing of his own cleverness.

Also, Stampede? Man, I so missed out on getting to go to that before I came to the states. I would be so up for that.

It's funny you mention deep-fried things on sticks as well, since this year was my first encounter with such an item. I could actually hear the impending rush of my own heartattack as I ate it, much the way someone standing in the mouth of a tunnel could hear a train bearing down on them.

And yet, so worth it.

[PCGameGuy]

meh. what jerks.

i mean no shit it's fake. but who cares? it's fun seeing if they can pull off the stuff and make it look real

like when i went to the ripley museum in san fran.
sure i knew they had a lot of fake stuff there... and some of it i had an idea of how they did it... but hey it still looked cool and i had fun.

I love that place, took my kids when they were young enough to buy into it completely. They about died at the end.... mirrors.

[SnapAddict218]

\That would be the man onstage swallowing the broadsword

Oh yea. I know that guy. Saw him just the other night as a matter of fact!

[morgana]

Does your husband have any single brothers?

[Yfandes]

That story, and your husband, are full of WIN!

[Becks]

May I borrow your husband?

I'll be good.

[Buglady]

Come to Calgary this summer. You and I MUST go to Stampede together. There are many, many things on sticks to eat - a large percentage of which are also deep-fried!

No sideshows, at least not intentional ones. We do have chuckwagon races, assorted riding of unwilling animals, Superdogs, and half a million people who pretend to be cowboys for two weeks while drinking on the job and/or eating our own weight in free pancakes.

[Sliceanddice]

*reads the story giggling like crazy and has one thing ot say*
so... you make lasagna..... can i have your recipee it must be good if your hubs used it as ammo

[Balgram]

I love the state fair.
"HEY BUDDY, I JUST WANTED TO SAY IT'S SO COOL HOW YOUR WIFE IS COMFORTABLE BEING A MISERABLE BITCH TO COMPLETE STRANGERS. MY WIFE WOULD NEVER DO THAT. DO YOU WANT TO TRADE? MINE CAN MAKE LASAGNA."

I'm so proud of this moment. Let us frame it and preserve it for history's children.