OT: The Local Carnival ... Uhhh

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Took my little dude to the carnival on Saturday and I was reminded of a few things you only see at Carnivals or Six Flag-type places.

  1. 14 tickets for $22. One ticket per ride. $22 for 7 rides and/or $22 for 15 minutes. =)

  2. Going along with #1, friday night and sunday afternoon are the $10 all-you-can ride bracelet days. Remember that for nextyear.

  3. Only at a carnival do you see hair cuts that went out of style 15 years ago … ON ADULTS. I saw a rat-tail down the middle of some dude’s back, and I saw way to many “bowl haircuts with the lwoer half shaved”. I was looking for some dude with lines in his hair. That was cool once, right?

  4. …ahh … the hickey necklace … I almost forgot about how great that is. Even better than that is when some dude has hickeys all over his chest where it almost looks like a map of the world.

  5. 10 year olds smoking. I saw one kid that had cigarettes tucked in his headband like an ammunition belt. I darn enar asked him if I could “bum a square”, just to see if he’d gimme one.

  6. The 14 year old girl with the 26 year old guy. Opposites attract , I guess.

  7. a $4 corn dog. I had one.

  8. T-shirts no would wear. “Free hand lotion. Pump nozzle below”. I was amazed I didn’t see any “Big Johnson” t-shirts.

  9. More Dale Earnhardt and L’il Earn framed pictures than you care to see.

  10. You can spend $30 winning a prize that is nothing more than a 4x6 framed pic of 50 Cent or some chic in a swimsuit. (I didn’t do this one … this year)

  11. Women wearing half-shirts w/o the accompanying “half shirt body”. Like they say in the movie 8mm, some things you can’t unsee.

  12. Carnival jewelry. Okay, we’ve likely all bought some of this at one time or another.

  13. carnival sunglasses tents. $200 sunglasses for $8. Who can refuse.

  14. Teenagers making out for so long that they forget what their own mouth tastes like.

Anyone care to add to the list?

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Went to the Del Mar Fair for the first time last year and saw the following things for the first time:

Deep fried twinkies and snickers bars

Carrot-Top live in concert. (Was actually pretty funny.)

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TT, I used to love the carnivals. In fact I still do. I’m old enough to remember as a kid when they still had the “freak shows” - giants, midgets, strong man, bearded lady, etc, as well as the obvious hoaxes like the two headed man or the half ape/half man. Guess they don’t do them any more.

When I was a kid my ambition was to be a carny when I grew up. Fortunately it never happened but there’s still a bit of carny fascination in me.

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You forgor to mention: Carny’s taking showers in the car washes with the high pressure hoses. If they had any teeth it would actually knock them out.

And…as far as freak shows go, the crowd is full of them.

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We make our children wear helmets when they ride their bikes yet we allow our children to ride carnival rides that are beiing run by carnies, doesn’t seem to make sense.

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My question has always been where are these people the rest of the year. They show up at the carnival then disappear for the rest of the year???