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World’s fattest man in 1890 was large enough to be considered a “freak show” in the circus. pic.twitter.com/CImhjPJ8Py
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When Wuzizname was a youngster his dad took him to the freakshow at the CNE every year (it's like the state fair but lamer because it's a Canadian thing).
They had freaks there and they had the "World's Fattest Man" seated on what was supposed to be a scale and I remember he was around 800 lbs, he'd yell at all the kids to stop staring at him and was scary.
Another thing they had was "See The MAN EATING Chicken" where they had this picture of a scary evil chicken chasing kids - turned out after you paid your $2 bucks to see it it was just the World's Fattest Man on his lunch break eating a bucket of chicken.
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a freak in a freak show who yells at people for looking at him
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That’s part of the appeal. They gave the guy with thalidomide a gun and let him shoot anyone who threw things.
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they did this joke in the hit motion picture little rascals
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Did they? I'm sure it was an age old carnie gag.
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