It's official: America has lost it MOJO - Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus to close after 146 years

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  • rojo
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    3 years ago 01/14/2017 10:33pm CST
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    What the hell are kids going to do now?

    This article is depressing. The circus is closing as kids don't have the attention span to sit still to watch a show without elephants (animal rights people).

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/apnewsbreak-ringling-bros-circus-to-close-after-146-years/2017/01/14/672bfe94-dad0-11e6-a0e6-d502d6751bc8_story.html?utm_term=.8800e518ad4b
  • PT Barnum
    3 years ago 01/14/2017 10:49pm CST
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    Oh my god wrote:

    Wow, libt*rds are falling apart at the seems.

    Actually, it's a more a case of the libturdz trying to make America fall apart at the seams.
  • Rolling a hoop.......
    3 years ago 01/14/2017 10:55pm CST
    re: PT Barnum
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    Are youth are more interested in playing violent video games and having easy access to guns so they can start shooting people when their brains quit processing the difference between fantasy and real life.
  • Trump 2 save jobs!!!
    3 years ago 01/14/2017 10:56pm CST
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    Trump must intervene and save those jobs!!!! MAGA!!! MAWA!!!!
  • Rolling a hoop.......
    3 years ago 01/14/2017 10:59pm CST
    re: Rolling a hoop.......
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    Rolling a hoop....... wrote:

    Are youth are more interested in playing violent video games and having easy access to guns so they can start shooting people when their brains quit processing the difference between fantasy and real life.

    Are = Our
  • UsedToBeKnowItAll
    3 years ago 01/14/2017 11:07pm CST
    re: rojo
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    The nostalgia can only keep a relatively boring experience in business for so long. The world has moved on. Sears and Macy's are going the same way because they can't adapt to the world of Amazon.
  • Queens Queens
    3 years ago 01/14/2017 11:08pm CST
    re: rojo
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    Nothing wrong with it.
  • Trump Coal
    3 years ago 01/14/2017 11:13pm CST
    re: UsedToBeKnowItAll
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    UsedToBeKnowItAll wrote:

    The nostalgia can only keep a relatively boring experience in business for so long. The world has moved on. Sears and Macy's are going the same way because they can't adapt to the world of Amazon.

    The same is true for coal. The world has moved on. Trump still wants to Make Coal Burn Again!
  • Idontreallyknow
    3 years ago 01/14/2017 11:30pm CST
    re: rojo
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    Maybe we can get them to start running
  • Bleah
    3 years ago 01/14/2017 11:51pm CST
    re: rojo
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    Omg, do you think buggy carriages will be the next thing to go? If they get rid of abacuses I'm out of here let me tell you.
  • Runningart2004
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    3 years ago 01/14/2017 11:57pm CST
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    I saw the show a couple years ago. It was ok. The problem is there are better ways to spend your entertainment dollar. Feld Entertainment, who also runs the much more entertaining Disney on Ice shows probably doesn't make much money from the circus shows.


    Alan
  • Dick Microscopic
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    3 years ago 01/14/2017 11:59pm CST
    re: UsedToBeKnowItAll
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    UsedToBeKnowItAll wrote:

    The nostalgia can only keep a relatively boring experience in business for so long. The world has moved on. Sears and Macy's are going the same way because they can't adapt to the world of Amazon.

    This. Seriously, who still goes to the circus?
  • truthee
    3 years ago 01/15/2017 12:08am CST
    re: rojo
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    rojo wrote:

    What the hell are kids going to do now?

    This article is depressing. The circus is closing as kids don't have the attention span to sit still to watch a show without elephants (animal rights people).

    I went a few years ago and it seemed remarkably slow moving.

    Of course, me being a kid of nearly 60 probably played into that.
  • Well Hello There
    3 years ago 01/15/2017 12:36am CST
    re: truthee
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    Cirque de Soleil and the Big Apple Circus are both thriving. Not only is there a greater variety of acts but the action is much much closer to the audience (like literally right on top of you). Plus Las Vegas still has its animal acts. Ringling Brothers was an antiquated model of a circus.
  • Big John
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    3 years ago 01/15/2017 12:38am CST
    re: rojo
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    I have never actually seen the B&B circus, but their circus train was cool as hell. We used to go down and party with some people we knew on it every time it came to Atlanta. They parked (or whatever is the correct rail term) underneath the Omni. Good times!
  • webby
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    3 years ago 01/15/2017 2:37am CST
    re: rojo
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    All of the suckers are busy watching Trump's clown show. They think it's free.
  • Red_Pill_Bill
    3 years ago 01/15/2017 4:01am CST
    re: rojo
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    Is it any coincidence that they just had their fist female ringmaster?? Hmmmmmm
  • Wowwwdude
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    3 years ago 01/15/2017 4:31am CST
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    With the biggest circus in the world officially opening at the inauguration on Friday, they know their place in the circus business.

    Come one, come all, to the greatest (sh!t) show on earth!
    -The United States of Trump
  • FarOutMan
    3 years ago 01/15/2017 4:54am CST
    re: rojo
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    Its those named PETA people. What are all them animals going to do for work now?
    Guess they'll have to be deported.
    I was hoping to attend Ringling Bros. Clown college. I'll have to go with everyone's second choice, Cornell.
  • curatoristic
    3 years ago 01/15/2017 5:26am CST
    re: rojo
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    I would say it is about time. I went to the circus once in the seventies - I'm 58 now - and it was archaic and outdated even then as entertainment. Put a few artifacts in a history museum where they belong.