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Ringling Bros Circus has their last show ever this Sunday

Posted on 5/19/17 at 7:02 am
Posted by carhartt
Member since Feb 2013
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Posted on 5/19/17 at 7:02 am
Ringling Bros. Circus Prepares for Final Bow of ‘Greatest Show on Earth’

They've been having the Greatest Show on Earth for almost 150 years. Sunday will be their last show ever.

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After nearly 150 years, the show will not go on for the iconic Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, which is performing its final act on Sunday.

Throughout its 146 year history, the massive, traveling circus elated crowds from small towns to big cities across America with its exotic animals, mile-long trains and death-defying feats — but not without courting its fair share of controversy.

As Ringling Bros. prepares to take its final bow before a sold-out crowd at Nassau Coliseum in the suburbs of New York City, circus performers and enthusiasts lamented the shutting down of "The Greatest Show on Earth." Yet animal rights activists who have sparred with Ringling for years said the end could not come soon enough.



People can thank PETA for being partly responsible.

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For Ashley Byrne, associate director of campaigns for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA),the circus' final show "can't come soon enough."


It irritates the crap out of me how much power and lack of remorse PETA has. They've destroyed a cultural icon and don't give a damn about it.



Posted by ihometiger
Member since Dec 2013
12475 posts
Posted on 5/19/17 at 7:03 am to
Mitch didn't like them either so he killed it off.
Posted by Godfather1
What WAS St George, Louisiana
Member since Oct 2006
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Posted on 5/19/17 at 7:03 am to
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People can thank PETA for being partly responsible.


fricking leftists. They ruin EVERYTHING.
Posted by Displaced
Member since Dec 2011
32738 posts
Posted on 5/19/17 at 7:05 am to
Ive never been to the circus.

I don't think I'll get my panties in a wad over this.

Now if they come after muh rodeos then we're gonna throw down.
Posted by rondo
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Member since Jan 2004
77416 posts
Posted on 5/19/17 at 7:07 am to
I'm not a fan of PETA but frick the circus.

It's really a shitty form of entertainment, it's trashy, and they do abuse the frick Out of those animals
Posted by Revelator
Member since Nov 2008
58408 posts
Posted on 5/19/17 at 7:10 am to
There are simply too many other things vying for people's attention these days.
Posted by kywildcatfanone
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Member since Oct 2012
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Posted on 5/19/17 at 7:16 am to
A fried of mine drove 4 hours to watch a show a couple of weeks ago, just because it was something he remembered from his childhood and wanted to see it one more time before it ended.



I haven't been to a circus since I was a child. I hate to see it end.

But liberals are ending everything that is right about our world, so it's not surprising.
Posted by AUbused
Member since Dec 2013
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Posted on 5/19/17 at 7:18 am to
Posted by biohzrd
Central City
Member since Jan 2010
5617 posts
Posted on 5/19/17 at 7:26 am to
So I take it there may be a few tigers in need of new homes???

Posted by lsu2006
BR
Member since Feb 2004
39993 posts
Posted on 5/19/17 at 7:39 am to
About time
Posted by Esquire
Chiraq
Member since Apr 2014
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Posted on 5/19/17 at 8:42 am to
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They've been having the Greatest Show on Earth for almost 150 years


Game of Thrones took its place.

But seriously, the circus is lame. Animal abuse aside, nobody wants to pay money to go watch a bunch of freaks do tricks.
Posted by LSU fan 246
Member since Oct 2005
90567 posts
Posted on 5/19/17 at 9:05 am to
Good. frick the circus
Posted by AubieALUMdvm
Member since Oct 2011
11713 posts
Posted on 5/19/17 at 9:06 am to
PETA didn't do this. People just don't go anymore Bc: the animal abuse is now widely known, it's expensive, and there are better things to do
Posted by ZIGG
Member since Dec 2016
10302 posts
Posted on 5/19/17 at 9:08 am to
People have got to wake up and understand that it's not about a circus or statues.

It's about these assholes wanting to control everything.
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