Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted January 15, 2017 Share Posted January 15, 2017 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/14/us/ringling-bros-and-barnum-bailey-circus-closing-may.html?emc=edit_th_20170115&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=30446431&_r=0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loophole LaRue, SASS #51438 Posted January 15, 2017 Share Posted January 15, 2017 PETA, and other humorless fanatics, will not be satisfied until there are no zoos, animal acts, animal actors, or even pets, and until we all eat nothing but tofu, dress only in synthetics and ban animal names for athletic teams and automobiles. The first time I can remember being overwhelmed by these wonders of Nature was when I saw the circus in Philadelphia around 1958. We had seats on the end of a row, and the elephants entered the ring via a walkway to my left; they were no more than 20' away. The smell was overwhelming, but I could have cared less. For a moment, I was in the jungle with Tarzan. I hope the crazies live nothing but boring, uneventful, drab lives. LL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted January 15, 2017 Author Share Posted January 15, 2017 The trained bears in the Russian circuses are surprising. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rye Miles #13621 Posted January 15, 2017 Share Posted January 15, 2017 (edited) The PETA people and their supporters have convinced people that these animals are mistreated. I've read countless times the trainers giving their side of the story and saying how WELL treated the animals are. Those animals are making the circus money, if anything they're not mistreated just because of that! Edited January 15, 2017 by Rye Miles #13621 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted January 15, 2017 Share Posted January 15, 2017 PETA = Pompous, Egotistical Totalitarian Adolescents 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reuben McCoy Rankin # 34239 Posted January 15, 2017 Share Posted January 15, 2017 PETA, and other humorless fanatics, will not be satisfied until there are no zoos, animal acts, animal actors, or even pets, and until we all eat nothing but tofu, dress only in synthetics and ban animal names for athletic teams and automobiles. The first time I can remember being overwhelmed by these wonders of Nature was when I saw the circus in Philadelphia around 1958. We had seats on the end of a row, and the elephants entered the ring via a walkway to my left; they were no more than 20' away. The smell was overwhelming, but I could have cared less. For a moment, I was in the jungle with Tarzan. I hope the crazies live nothing but boring, uneventful, drab lives. LL Well said!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birdgun Quail, SASS #63663 Posted January 15, 2017 Share Posted January 15, 2017 Sad that the "Greatest Show On Earth" will be no more. I remember the excitement amongst us kids when the circus was coming to town. We couldn't wait. What a show! Loved seeing the animals, but to me the most fascinating and exciting part of the show were those on the flying trapeze. I remember telling my mother, "Mommy, I don't want to have to do that." And, I loved the clowns! Laughed until I hurt. I haven't seen a circus or even known were a circus was performing in years. Still, too bad children will not be able to see live all that a circus provided. Too bad... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS #32933 Posted January 15, 2017 Share Posted January 15, 2017 Seaworld is right behind them. PETA and the other groups have pretty well killed it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Original Lumpy Gritz Posted January 15, 2017 Share Posted January 15, 2017 Yet PETA and such, don't give a rats arse about all the people that will now be unemployed, and all the generations that grew up working in the circus life and have no other skills..... OLG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sedalia Dave Posted January 15, 2017 Share Posted January 15, 2017 Yet PETA and such, don't give a rats arse about all the people that will now be unemployed, and all the generations that grew up working in the circus life and have no other skills..... OLG The real PETA PETA’s Secret Slaughter of Kittens, Puppies They all but admit it here on their website 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted January 16, 2017 Share Posted January 16, 2017 PETA, the Sierra Club, Green Peace believe in only one thing. Money. Money they get from naive people and useful idiots. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birdgun Quail, SASS #63663 Posted January 16, 2017 Share Posted January 16, 2017 (edited) I heard the reason Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey are closing is because we can only have one circus at a time. Edited January 16, 2017 by Birdgun Quail, SASS #63663 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted January 16, 2017 Share Posted January 16, 2017 Maybe they can have a "new" circus, where PETA folks portray the animals and for the first tour of the "new circus" the PETA folks get the treatment that they believe the animals get and then on the second tour they get the treatment that the animals really get. It would be like Cirq-de-Solei...I know that isn't the spelling...but who cares? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rooster Ron Wayne Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 Sadly the End of another Era ! Something our Grandchildren will only read about in books , And no longer experience 😳 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lost Trail Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 PETA, and other humorless fanatics, will not be satisfied until there are no zoos, animal acts, animal actors, or even pets, and until we all eat nothing but tofu, dress only in synthetics and ban animal names for athletic teams and automobiles. The first time I can remember being overwhelmed by these wonders of Nature was when I saw the circus in Philadelphia around 1958. We had seats on the end of a row, and the elephants entered the ring via a walkway to my left; they were no more than 20' away. The smell was overwhelming, but I could have cared less. For a moment, I was in the jungle with Tarzan. I hope the crazies live nothing but boring, uneventful, drab lives. LL Can't dress in synthetics since so many of those come from oil based products. Most likely they want us all to weave our own clothes from hemp. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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