I love the Cirque du Soleil. It gives me a sense of what it must be like to take an illegal substance.
But Cirque du Soleil is not the circus.
I hate the circus. It gives me a sense of what it must be like to need to take an illegal substance.
If you want to read about why I want to run away from the circus (the one with animal rights’ activists who greet patrons by waving placards that hide the illegal substances they’re taking), you need to jump over. Here is the link to my humour column that was published in today’s Calgary Herald:
Running Away from the Circus
And then come back and tell me what circus acts make you want to freak out.
Great article! LOL funny!
Nice work! (can I put any more exclamation points here?) I really liked it!!!
Go wild!! Unless Brad is reading!!! If he is, this one’s for him!!!! 😉
I totally feel your clown pain. There is a clown with a similiar name to my husbands and we get his mail- he’s not just any clown- he is ‘Buttons: God’s Clown’. Yes, there is a scary offshoot of religious clowning out there lurking!
Loved your article!!
I have a friend who did Christian clowning. I love her. But it also makes me want to barricade myself behind an alter.
So have also seen the story of Jonah done with balloon animals!
“I don’t trust men when they talk about sizes.”
Heh heh heh.
I actually cannot believe you just wrote a piece about clowns. Because I just saw a person dressed up as a clown TODAY. And I hate clowns. In fact, when Monkey was born, I specifically told people, “No clowns, please.”
I think that happened after I saw Poltergeist.
I should also mention my mother bought Hubby and me a freaky stuffed violin-playing clown for our first wedding anniversary. Strange how we cannot seem to find it anywhere.
Glad you saw Cirque de Soleil. 😉
Ouch. My father in law gets us lottery tickets for our anniversary (and dim sum); I lucked out. I think I’d bury the clown.
And I love that we’re sisters in clown hating…
Sooooo expensive….
My favorite part was this: “I stopped listening; I don’t trust men when they talk about sizes.”
🙂
That was SO funny!!!
Thanks, Catherine.
Oh yeah, you were on your game for this one lady. I was laughing the whole way through, especially after the line about being distracted by William saying something on topic. Terrific!
Thank you, Mr. Morgan.
3 lattes? Man, Starbucks is cheap in the great white North.
Can’t believe you denied your wee ones those elephants! That’s the best part of the circus. And clowns don’t bother me for some reason, and yes, I have seen Poltergeist. That is a clown DOLL. Totally different level of scary. But the real live ones? Eh.
Ha. Yes, well it doesn’t cost as much to refrigerate the milk.
You are a stronger woman than me…not being afraid of clowns (the other thing that scares me are swings moving in the dark…)
“They’re sick today. From all the travel.” Nice! I can’t do the circus because of the clowns. I have an honest clown phobia and can’t track where it came from. I ran out of a bookstore once because my husband had found a pop-up book of phobias and came over to me with the clown one. We were just dating then. I can’t believe I still married him after that.
I would have joined you running out of the book store. Was there a bar nearby? We could’ve gone for a drink…
Great article. The first line was a great hook. I was pulled in kicking and screaming…and spit out the other end (not of the elephant, the article) laughing my head off.
Aww, thanks Keith. I appreciate you saying that, not to mention the elephant clarification. 😉
Great article! I giggled the entire way through. I can relate.
Oh, and Pennywise says:
“We all float.”
😉
:).