Again on a neighboring blog, it was suggested that I spend too much time in Europe looking at nice acts. Again I will reiterate, it is not a Nationality it is individuals, just as it is individual company's and not an industry. Is malpractice and disbarment bad things for the medical and legal profession? Or does it protect the industry as a whole. If you are a bad shoe maker, you will lose your business, and the public will go else where to have their boots resoled or fixed. You did that to yourself. But what if you are a bad shoe maker, and the whole industry suffered because of it and they shut the industry of shoe repair down? If reputable shoe makers lynched you, a court of law might find it justifiable homicide.
Saturday, July 19, 2008
The King in his glory day
Again on a neighboring blog, it was suggested that I spend too much time in Europe looking at nice acts. Again I will reiterate, it is not a Nationality it is individuals, just as it is individual company's and not an industry. Is malpractice and disbarment bad things for the medical and legal profession? Or does it protect the industry as a whole. If you are a bad shoe maker, you will lose your business, and the public will go else where to have their boots resoled or fixed. You did that to yourself. But what if you are a bad shoe maker, and the whole industry suffered because of it and they shut the industry of shoe repair down? If reputable shoe makers lynched you, a court of law might find it justifiable homicide.
Never got to see this spectacle in St. Louis. Lee Keener had left the show a few weeks before and Tusk was in musth. He had rolled Gunther in Kansas City, the city before STL. Of course the novelties were all King Tusk this and King Tusk that. As I waited the the Spec for the entrance of King Tusk no signs of the center ring elephant props. Finally Gunther in a power blue tux quickly led Tusk, without head piece or blanket, around the track and out the door. (No shot at Gunther, working an elephant musth that you really didn't know -- pretty gutsy.) By the end of the week they would lead Tusk for a short stay in the center ring but no rider or wardrobe.
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ReplyDeleteThe majority of show owned animals historically have a hard way to go, with the change over of handlers/trainers that come and go in their life. Do you know how they got a handle on that musth deal for the rest of his career? He only missed one show while I was around him, but in that case the handler was in musth, and it wasn't Tusk's fault.
Wade
They cancelled his Playboy subscription and just let him look at Better Homes and Gardens. I would have said AARP but even they have a few articles on how seniors can get their jollys. (So what did they really do?)
ReplyDeleteYou could probably fill the blog for a week or more if everyone sent only one photo they had taken with "The Largest Land Animal Travelling the Face of the Earth Today".