Friday, June 28, 2019

After banning circus animals, MoCo gets one-man circus

The Montgomery County Council is infamously known for debating at length, and then approving, a ban on circus animals - at the same time as once-major County employer Discovery Communications was being wooed to relocate by other jurisdictions. Sadness ensued for all, as Montgomery County wound up losing both circuses and the Discovery Channel headquarters. But, now through Sunday, July 7 at Strathmore, it's David Dimitri to the rescue! The son of legendary clown Jakob Dimitri is bringing a one-man circus to Montgomery County, L'homme Cirque.

Dimitri will fire himself out of a cannon as a human cannonball. He will walk the high wire. Strathmore promises he will balance these and other daring feats with "humor, poetry and an accordion serenade." At the climax of the performance, Dimitri will open the top of the tent, and the audience will witness him disappear "into the sky" on the high wire.

The one-man circus is one contingency the anti-circus County Council apparently did not anticipate, and thereby is legal. Teeth are assuredly gnashing at 100 Maryland Avenue, but the show must! go! on! True to the Montgomery Way, though, Dimitri was required to get a permit from the County to erect his tent on the Strathmore property. Big Government for the Big Tent!

You can buy tickets online, and watch a trailer for Dimitri's L'homme Cirque:

20 comments:

  1. Shocker that you're on the wrong side of this issue, too

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    1. I'm on the American side, as opposed to the Communist side. I like plastic straws, Styrofoam, cars and real beef hamburgers, too.

      #JoeMcCarthyWasRight

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    2. Good for you! You forgot to add lead paint, cars with out seat belts and DDT. I'm sure you agree the stupid rule requiring sterile conditions during surgery is also just a commie plot.

      Preach it!!!!

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    3. 10:08: Comparing lead paint or basic auto safety to banning plastic straws is a painfully bad analogy.

      However, DDT was a godsend. Banning it allowed bedbugs to come back as a regular guest in hotels, and led to the death of millions in the Third World. Heckuva job, Brownie!

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    4. Great, let's bring back Zyclon-B, too.

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    5. "led to the death of millions in the Third World."

      This is false.

      https://www.salon.com/2007/06/29/rachel_carson/

      And it isn't illegal to use malaria against disease vectors, only agricultural pests.

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    6. #JoeMcCarthyWasRight

      McCarthy was an alcoholic, a morphine addict and a deeply closeted homosexual who died of liver failure at the age of 48, in disgrace three years after his career had been ruined by the backlash against his "anti-communist" witch hunts.

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    7. 11:15: LOL - the deaths of millions in the Third World, and even a substantial number of Americans, that resulted from the banning of DDT are documented facts.

      Classic retconning of history when your latest control-freak impulse - whoops! - ends up killing millions of people.

      8:49: LOL - well, that's one version of McCarthy's biography. But back in our dimension, McCarthy was a patriotic American who was on the way to routing out the Communists in Hollywood, the media, and government. Unfortunately, like the Kennedys, he began to get too close to the core conspiracy, such as the highest-level foreign agents and Fellow Travelers in the White House and Deep State. He certainly passed away, but not likely from natural causes.

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    8. YEAH!!! Bring back dog fighting too while they're at it!! MURICA!!!!

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    9. 8:09: I never saw animals fighting each other at the Ringling Bros. Circus. Hyperbole of the highest order.

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    10. 12:39: For a "maroon," I have pretty good spelling skills.

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    11. Apparently you never watched Bugs Bunny when you were growing up, though.

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    12. Yea Robert has excellent spelling skills just like how he is a ‘very good driver’.

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  2. Circuses and circus animals are different things. Dense or bias?

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    1. A circus without animals? Mon Dieu!

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    2. Three more French words for you:

      Cirque du Soleil.

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  3. My family went on Friday. Absolutely amazing show! So funny, charming, beautiful, and amazing. I've seen many circuses before and this was my favorite by far.

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    1. 4:54: Wonderful - it looks like a great show. A new kind of circus, but also a throwback to simpler times.

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  4. Free health care for all illegal aliens! Lets invite everyone in from all.over the world!No questions asked,just get here and get your free health care and dont pay any taxes!

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