Very good followup to the Zoo question Zippy.

I do not like the Circus. Not only because it seems to be a rather sad and cruel life for the animals, but mostlt because I think they are dumb. I AM NOT entertained at all by them. They are a bit anachronistic. They are a throwback to a time before televison, zoos and travel. Imagine being a kid in a remote town or village (any country) and you began to see flyers about town. tacked to trees and in storefront windows that "the Circus" was coming to town. It could have been the most thrilling and exciting thing that you could imagine.

You were going to see things that you had only heard about or maybe read about in books. WHERE ELSE WERE YOU GOING TO SEE AN ELEPHANT. Not to mention exotic and ferocious beasts: lions, tigers, monkeys, camels...
AND "You" had a horse and a dog... but not like the beautiful white Arabian Stallions they had or their dogs that could do such amazing tricks.

And yes, the freaks, the tallest man in the world, a woman with a beard, the strongest man alive... Unfortunately, it had to be a mystical and wonderous event. BUT TODAY, we have all seen these things. We can watch TV and see Nature shows, we can go to the Zoo. And the Freaks, we now understand that these are simply human anomalties.

We have progressed beyond the age of Circuses and it probably time for them to go the way of the Dinosaur!!!