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Having worked alongside Showmen for some 30 years in the Fair Industry—I second that emotion!
Well dang, it’s the Bee. I was hoping it was legit! Well done Bee.
If you can operate a Tilt-A-Whirl, you’re hired on the spot.
I spent a week with a traveling carnival when I hitchhiked through Louisiana searching for the carnival to visit a buddy and finally found it in a small town there.
Aside from my buddy they are a sorry lot and I almost had to fight my way in but they still resented my showing up and working there, at least for the first couple of days.
I think they were in Mamou that period.
They are quite similar:
“Everybody’s a winner!”
Which really means, “I win, you lose.”
This would be funny if it wasn’t true.
I still laughed.
“I’d rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.”
William F. Buckley, Jr.
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He would include students now.
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The last time I went to the fair, several years ago, the carnies were a bunch of east European young people. I don’t know that they were any better than the normal carnies, but they durn sure looked a lot better. Some of the women were very attractive.