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Wow - what a show. The only way he could top that would be to come back to live as a smoking zombie!

Well worth the price of a ticket, but not for the kiddies!

Now, all they have to do is get another clown.

Kids Watch As Clown Is Crushed to Death

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DUBLIN, Ireland (AP) -- A hot-air balloon caught fire during a circus stunt, killing a clown acrobat as dozens of children watched, police said Tuesday.

The accident happened Monday night as the Royal Russian Circus was performing in Scariff, County Clare, a village in western Ireland. About 100 people were in the audience, most of them children. Police said the clown was a 26-year-old man from Belarus but didn't release his name.

Witnesses said the man, dressed in a clown outfit, was hanging from a cage suspended by ropes and a hot-air balloon inside the canvas tent. When the balloon exploded in flames, the cage fell on top of the man.

Silly DK, the best EVERYTHING is in Ireland.

That's a tragedy, it happened in the home town of one of my friends.

Let this not spell the end of the appeal of the circus in Ireland!

I bet they could have saved him with guns.

I knew a guy once....blah, blah, blah....

I bet they could have saved him with guns.

I knew a guy once....blah, blah, blah....


You are getting worse and worse. I'm sure you're aware of that.

You are getting worse and worse. I'm sure you're aware of that.

I should almost take that as a compliment.

I should almost take that as a compliment.

I dont deserve you disrespect.

I dont deserve you disrespect.

No disrespect meant at all, how do you mean I'm "getting worse"?

No disrespect meant at all, how do you mean I'm "getting worse"?

you are quite often making unwarranted,off-topic personal attacks

Its not making your subject look bad, however, in my opinion, its making you look petty and bitter.

I could be wrong.

you are quite often making unwarranted,off-topic personal attacks

Its not making your subject look bad, however, in my opinion, its making you look petty and bitter.

I could be wrong.

Well, it's only a personal attack if someone chooses to take it as a personal attack. Otherwise it's just a comment on Kimchi's constant championing of excessive weaponry as the great solver of all life's problems.

Well, it's only a personal attack if someone chooses to take it as a personal attack. Otherwise it's just a comment on Kimchi's constant championing of excessive weaponry as the great solver of all life's problems.

Is that how you want to be dealt with from now on? Having your point of view mocked. regardless of the topic?

I was just pointing it out-no big deal.

I'm certainly no monument to justice.

Well, it's only a personal attack if someone chooses to take it as a personal attack. Otherwise it's just a comment on Kimchi's constant championing of excessive weaponry as the great solver of all life's problems.

A fine opportunity to make you look foolish, as I haven't brought up weaponry in this thread.

Now, all they have to do is get another clown.
LG...this is your time!

Is that how you want to be dealt with from now on? Having your point of view mocked. regardless of the topic?

I was just pointing it out-no big deal.

I'm certainly no monument to justice.

Certainly you aren't.

Tell the truth, are you extracting some profit for your participation on this thread or it is just some loyal and steadfast sandal licking of a legionnaire to his proud and benevolent centurion?

Certainly you aren't.

Tell the truth, are you extracting some profit for your participation on this thread or it is just some loyal and steadfast sandal licking of a legionnaire to his proud and benevolent centurion?

Tell the truth - is my OP just a silly attempt at humor, or do you think I have some dishonest agenda underneath?

Tell the truth - is my OP just a silly attempt at humor, or do you think I have some dishonest agenda underneath?

This thread?

Just another silly attempt at dark humour, in my opinion. Not an agenda. No guns, no muslims.

You can keep your agenda honest just by accepting it :p

PS: Well, what if the clown was actually a disguised Al Quaeda activist? The muslim popuation of Belarus is significant! :p

Certainly you aren't.

Tell the truth, are you extracting some profit for your participation on this thread or it is just some loyal and steadfast sandal licking of a legionnaire to his proud and benevolent centurion?

Tell the truth-can you resist the urge of your usual personal attack on me-potshots from your gutter?

My comments to Nadkor were an honest observation and truthful. Nadkor generally has a higher standard. They werent mean spirited or flaming.

You, however, provide the usual crap we've come to expect from you.

Easy there, big guy... *finger wag*

Guys this really isn't funny...the man died!

I was at that circus a few weeks ago with the children I babysit...imagine if you had your children at the show?

Guys this really isn't funny...the man died!

I was at that cirus a few weeks ago with the children I babysit...imagine if you had your children at the show?

It is funny. Welcome to NS General!

Guys this really isn't funny...the man died!

I was at that circus a few weeks ago with the children I babysit...imagine if you had your children at the show?

You've been here for what's going on three months now, and you're only now realising we're a bunch of sick bastards? :p

I should almost take that as a compliment.

I would if I were you *nodnod*

:(

no not the clown!!!

I've always wanted to see the animal trainer attacked though. :p

:(

no not the clown!!!

I've always wanted to see the animal trainer attacked though. :p

I guess you missed Siegfried and Roy, and the tiger that found one of them tasty.

I guess you missed Siegfried and Roy, and the tiger that found one of them tasty.

Yeah I did miss that. I knew it happened though. Good times.

Yeah I did miss that. I knew it happened though. Good times.

I had seen them previously, and no one got eaten. I wanted my money back.

Easy there, big guy... *finger wag*

I hope that finger is clean.

you are quite often making unwarranted,off-topic personal attacks

How is mentioning guns a personal attack?

Whatever happened to the fun, sex talkin' Carnivorous Licker?

How is mentioning guns a personal attack?

Whatever happened to the fun, sex talkin' Carnivorous Licker?

You'll notice I'm not upset.

How is mentioning guns a personal attack?

Whatever happened to the fun, sex talkin' Carnivorous Licker?


the ratio of pompous twats to fun ones has risen drastically.

I come in wth intentions of having fun, but that rapidly diminishes once I'm here for 5 minutes.

I wasnt aware you'd paid attention.

You've been here for what's going on three months now, and you're only now realising we're a bunch of sick bastards? :p

No but it's wierd when it was someone I came across irl!

You'll notice I'm not upset.
Indeed, your calm, deliberating demeanour is striking.

*strokes chin*

I don't get it the man was crushed what’s so funny about that there isn’t even irony in it

I think dark humour usually involves something that’s funny like a guy getting an accidental blow to the nads or someone jumping off a cliff to see if it would hurt (would it?)

I don't get it the man was crushed what’s so funny about that there isn’t even irony in it

I think dark humour usually involves something that’s funny like a guy getting an accidental blow to the nads or someone jumping off a cliff to see if it would hurt (would it?)

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Silly DK, the best EVERYTHING is in Ireland.

Even some of the best women.;)
*flees thread for life, lest he start posting seriuosly:eek:*

Tell the truth-can you resist the urge of your usual personal attack on me-potshots from your gutter?

My comments to Nadkor were an honest observation and truthful. Nadkor generally has a higher standard. They werent mean spirited or flaming.

You, however, provide the usual crap we've come to expect from you.

I cannot. You place the ripe fruit in the lower branches. Do not complain if people catch it.

I, at least, provide non-expected crap, not the "usual" crap. You, sir, are entirely predictable.

http://helgafell.rhi.hi.is/pic26777.jpg

You win the thread.

I cannot. You place the ripe fruit in the lower branches. Do not complain if people catch it.

I, at least, provide non-expected crap, not the "usual" crap. You, sir, are entirely predictable.


When you dont find the fruit you're seeking, you simply make it up yourself.

Non expected? No-anyone paying attention to you will always be aware of who you'll be bashing and when, no matter what the topic.
Thankfully, there are few.

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