I want to join the circus!

saysadie · Post by **saysadie** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 10:40 am

Yes.

Not some piddling crap carny act. I mean, like, Cirque de Soleil type ****. I want to juggle or something. Or be an acrobat.

I'm currently watching the Olympic closing ceremonies, and there was a lot of neat stuff in. The dancing tarot cards were very Fantasia/Alice in Wonderland, and amused the hell out of me. They had this bit where the cards made this little maze, these soldiers came out, entered the maze and and the people dressed as cards kept shifting around, changing the maze and finally trapped the guards in the middle... It was great. I wanna be a Tarot card, dammit!

The best part imo was the acrobats in the air funnel. Air being shot out of fans at about 200 km per hour with guys in suits doing flips and other stuff inside of it. That was just cool.

I want to do that. I guess it's time to run away and join the circus.

Post by **Best First** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 11:23 am

why do you have to run away?

can't you saunter?

KingMob · Post by **KingMob** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 1:11 pm

Joining the circus sounds a lot more awesome than taking up performing art.

The last proper circus I went to see was terrific, although could probably be described as piddlinh and carny. It was really old-school with the acts and the setting, but the interesting part was that it was themed entirely to be Chinese.
So instead of gymnastics on the back of horses, it was gymnastics on the back of a bunch of people wearing those dragon outfits and with fire-breathers under the head part.
Instead of clowns, it's a bunch of guys doing kung-fu.
All stuff like that.
It was surprisingly great.

Apart from being a tarot card, any skill in particular strike your fancy?

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 1:17 pm

Best First wrote:why do you have to run away?

can't you saunter?

Thematically speaking, I'd be more inclined towards an acrobatic cartwheel/backflip combo. Though some may regard this as unnecessarily flashy.

Post by **Best First** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 1:22 pm

i actually know someone who left my company to join the circus.

i need a new job, mine is pissing me off.

sadly though i rather like the money.

bah.

Metal Vendetta · Post by **Metal Vendetta** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 2:24 pm

I met a guy who left my company to join the magic circle.

At our Xmas bash he sawed a lady in half with a power-saw.

It was cool.

Optimus Prime Rib · Post by **Optimus Prime Rib** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 7:23 pm

Metal Vendetta wrote:I met a guy who left my company to join the magic circle.

At our Xmas bash he sawed a lady in half with a power-saw.

It was cool.

How did she feel about it?

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 7:31 pm

Optimus Prime Rib wrote:
Metal Vendetta wrote:I met a guy who left my company to join the magic circle.

At our Xmas bash he sawed a lady in half with a power-saw.

It was cool.
How did she feel about it?

She said she felt like half the women she was before...

Legion · Post by **Legion** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 8:12 pm

Impactor returns 2.0 wrote:
Optimus Prime Rib wrote:
Metal Vendetta wrote:I met a guy who left my company to join the magic circle.

At our Xmas bash he sawed a lady in half with a power-saw.

It was cool.
How did she feel about it?
She said she felt like half the women she was before...

*hands Impy his coat*
get out.

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 8:33 pm

Awh. It could have been much worse.

I was going to try and make an "ambivalence" joke (you know, when half of you feels one way about something and the other half feels another), but suddenly felt like I was channelling Frasier Crane.

Much like I felt typing that out, in point of fact...

BB Shockwave · Post by **BB Shockwave** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 10:00 pm

Be a sideshow! Just get some skin disease and you'll be the Amazing Alligator Man!

Worked for 'ol Killer Croc...

saysadie · Post by **saysadie** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 8:52 am

Metal Vendetta wrote:At our Xmas bash he sawed a lady in half with a power-saw.

That. Is. Awesome.

I need a completely unexpected talent. Like... um... special martial-arts training and a certain kind of genius, the type that allows me to create whacky crimefighting devices and put on funky headgear and a cape to fight crime in during my off hours, when I'm not being a jet-setting millionaire.

Brendocon wrote:Awh. It could have been much worse.

I was going to try and make an "ambivalence" joke (you know, when half of you feels one way about something and the other half feels another), but suddenly felt like I was channelling Frasier Crane.

Much like I felt typing that out, in point of fact...

Y'know, I can so hear that entire thing in my head in Frasier's voice.

I'll never be able to read anything you post in the same way again.

But I really do want to join the circus. Or be one of those insane people who hurdle themselves headfirst down an icy slope in a little sled with no safety resraints with a lightweight helmet being my only sort of real bodily protection. That would kick ass.

Bouncelot · Post by **Bouncelot** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 5:55 pm

I have a friend who used to be a professional clown for a circus in Spain.

The only time I've actually been to a circus was when the China State Circus visited Coventry. They have an act where someone tosses plates onto their head whilst riding a six foot unicycle which is balancing on top of a walking ball. Apparently they used to do it with much larger unicycles until someone fell off and did serious damage to their spine.

Obfleur · Post by **Obfleur** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 7:22 pm

One of my closest friends belongs to a famous swedish cirkus family (his grandfather started swedens second biggest cirkus).

My friend toured with the cirkus a couple of years ago - and whenever the cirkus is in town he goes in for free and gets free candy, etc.

His father is also a proffesional clown.

Booya!

Optimus Prime Rib · Post by **Optimus Prime Rib** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 7:27 pm

saysadie wrote:
But I really do want to join the circus. Or be one of those insane people who hurdle themselves headfirst down an icy slope in a little sled with no safety resraints with a lightweight helmet being my only sort of real bodily protection. That would kick ass.

You could just get nekid with Snarl, I hear it has about the same safety level.

[size=0]dont kill me snarl its in the name of comedy![/size]

saysadie · Post by **saysadie** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 8:22 pm

Optimus Prime Rib wrote: You could just get nekid with Snarl, I hear it has about the same safety level.

Nonono... I could get nekkid at roughly the same time as Snarlos, but anything more than that would probably require hopping a plane, spending money, etc...

Oh, and hell to freeze over. No offense meant to Snarlos, I'm sure he's awesome etc. He just scares me.

Optimus Prime Rib wrote:[size=0]dont kill me snarl its in the name of comedy![/size]

Wiener.

Obfleur wrote:One of my closest friends belongs to a famous swedish cirkus family (his grandfather started swedens second biggest cirkus).

My friend toured with the cirkus a couple of years ago - and whenever the cirkus is in town he goes in for free and gets free candy, etc.

His father is also a proffesional clown.

Booya!

That is several degrees of awesome.

I wish my dad was a clown.

I wonder what the possibility of getting him to consider a career change is.

Pst: http://www.soyouwanna.com/site/syws/circus/circus.html

Post by **Best First** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 2:19 pm

You'll be expected to put on a smile

gutted.