Traveling for circuses
makes family a team
CIRCUS from °age 6
ah' ho reads lodo iho same in a ioa
sears
Bhi said ’ho iamilv is a loam and
hes ravel irom rous to circus and
Mato io suiie .he maioritv of the year
Accordine to Donna the family
raveis around in i ai with a >mall
rader auached o u Ixvause u s
mmo to hrme more holonemcs
rfx radc i> a onvomonco Bill
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*he business, oth
erwise vou
wouldn t be in it
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Another . mvemence factor
)onnasaid \ 'hat the trailer provide"
i son o< home awj\ from home
i; > hard traveling) with kids
"ho said
An option would be to get a hotel
'(Him Donna "aid hut die trailer
I
gives the family aeonvcnicm place lo
rest between shows and ts less expen
sive
Bill added that although circus
performers earn good money, it is
expensive u> he out on the road.
You have to make good
money he said, u s so expensive.
We probably spend more money in a
week than most people make (in a
week >
rraveling expenses alone utke a
large lump out ol one's billfold
li will cost as $500 |usi to go to
Yc* York Bill said.
Beginning their lour in mid April
tnd * Hiding up in December Donna
and Bid said the\ can lietire out
ho* mans mp*s the\ Jo each vear
nu he * i said hev tveraee around
Is performances nor week
V mi nave o love ihe business
Bn >aid oinerwise vou wouidn t
ne in n
A.ml BH and Donna agree tna*
the\ love h
Bib said ii s better .nan (he iradi
nonal tamih setup where the father
ind/or mother work outside ol the
nome and .he children are either in
day -care or sc hool
We re together as a family 24
hours a day seven days a week M>s
daysayear. Bill said Were much
closer than most lamilies
Circus performances will be to
night at 7 30 p m. Wednesday
Thursday and Hridav ai 2 Mi and 7 Ml
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Columnist uses hindsight, maturity
to crush myths from his childhood
H> Jim Hanna
Staff Humorist
1 remember a pretty funny gag in
the original “Muppet Movie.” Kcr
mit the Frog was being plagued by
ignorant people who spouted myths
about frogs.
iiM»nuNi&i—
“No, that’s a myth! Myth!” poor
Kermil would insist, at which point a
/.any woman appeared from nowhere
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“Ycth?”
Gel it? He said myth and this
woman thought he was lisping and
said Miss. So she would lisp hack her
response: Yes? (with lisp=ycth).
I thought it was pretty clever
Well, age and sensibility have
since come my way and I now sec that
joke for wha' it was: a brutal attack
upon lispers.
Age and sensibility have also
cleared me up on the whole idea of
myths in general. As a child, I greed
ily consumed every hare-brained
myth of life that came my way.
Now it’s lime to look back with
my 20/20 hindsight. I may have been
duped as a lad, but no longer shall I
fall victim to the lies crammed down
my throat by my parents, teachers and
various other evil adult myth-mon
gers.
It’s lime to crush a few myths from
my childhood days:
POLICE OFFICERS ARE YOUR
FRIENDS: The Iasi lime I checked,
none of my friends had ever arro
gantly slapped a SIS parking ticket
on my car. I have never been pulled
over by one of my buddies for speed
ing. And I am quite certain that none
of my friends have ever cited me for
minor in possession. My friend? No
thanks, I couldn’t handle the peer
pressure.
IF YOU KEEP MAKING THAT
FACE, IT WILL STICK LIKE
THAT: I don’t think 1 ever really
believed this one. But to be certain,
last week, I made a lace like Mel
Gibson all day long. I thought it
would be nice to have my lace stuck
like that. It didn’t work.
THE TOOTH FAIRY, SANTA
CLAUS, EASTER BUNNY, ETC.:
I still kick myself for buying into this
crap for so long. I should have picked
up on n when my mom made me pul
my first lost tooth in a jar of water by
my bed instead of under my pillow.
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‘ ‘ Wc want the tooth lairy to be able to
find it easily, don't wc?” my mom
would say. Little did I know she was
lust uk) lazy to go rooting around
under my pillow in the middle of the
night. Wc didn't have a chimney so I
once asked how Santa would get in
the house. My dad told me he would
leave the door unlocked for him.
Right, Dad, so the Zodiac Killer can
sneak in and hack us to death while
wc sleep? It was all just a pack of lies.
1 BEFORE E, EXCEPT AFTER C:
This one has always bugged me.
There arc far loo many exceptions.
Usually, these exceptions would be
worked into the cute rhyme - ‘ un
less it sounds like ay’ as in neighbor
and weigh.” Allow me to expand
upon this list of exceptions: height,
leisure, deity, feign, deign, weird,
seismic, feisty, heinous, being, heir,
Heimlich maneuver, heifer, meiosis.
beige, seize, reign, rein, heist, lei,
neither, either, vein, veil, weir and on
and on. Let’s see them try to turn that
into a cute, catchy jingle.
YOU’RE GOING TO FEEL A
LITTLE PRESSURE: This was a
lavoriie of my dentist. A young mind
is not going to comprehend the mean
mg of “a little pressure.” Blinding
agony - that a young mind can under
stand. I really wish they would quit
lying. Pain is pain and they should
just call it like n is. “Little boy, I’m
going to stick this long, scary needle
into the tender lining of your mouth
until your eyes pop out m an intense*
lit of pain ”
THIS IS GOING TO HURT ME
MORE THAN IT DOES YOU: Ac
tually, I never really heard this one. I
don 't think anyone ever has except on
TV shows. It seemed that at times my
parents could hardly contain their
glee as they doled out the punish
ment.
SUGAR AND SPICE AND EVE
RYTHING NICE, THAT’S
WHAT LITTLE GIRLS ARE
MADE OF. SNIPS AND SNAILS
AND PUPPY DOG TAILS,
THAT’S WHAT LITTLE BOYS
ARE MADE OF: And we wonder
how sexist ideologies arc passed on to
our young. This one still scars me.
How is a young boy supposed to
develop normally in his formative
years knowing he’s made of such
horrific garbage? Young girls also
have a tough time living up to the
sugary syrup that constitutes their
being. I can only hope that my chil
dren will have some other cute, more
accurate chant about their physical
make-up. “Tissues and cells and
spiritual selves, that’s what both little
boys and little girls arc made of.”
