However, someone else in the office was digging through a box looking for something. One comment was something along the lines of him looking like a trained monkey, yadda yadda yadda, they broke into the circus song!
You might be on to something. When riding this past weekend, we were hummed at by a group of canadian teenagers. The bird dance. They did not perform the actions.
I used to hate getting the circus song. Now I absolutely LOVE it and I look forward to the next instance. Here’s why…
As soon as I hear it, I stop riding and start questioning rather urgently and emphatically, “ARE YOU IN THE CIRCUS?! BECAUSE THAT’S THE CIRCUS SONG! ARE YOU IN THE CIRCUS??? ARE YOU A CLOWN???”
It’s not the reaction they expect. It’s fun. And it gets the point across.
It’s generaly people reacting in what they seem to think is a positive manner.
Put yourself in their place. How often do you see other unicyclists without seeking them? It’s a knee jerk reaction. I’m not sure why some of you find this to be offensive. Except for thin skin, or another person looking to expell his or her pent-up frustration. It’s boring, really.
Is it that “dit dit diddle diddle dit dit did-it, dit dit diddle diddle dit dit did-it, dit diddle dit dit dit diddle dit dit, diddle-diddle-diddle-diddle-dit dit diddle diddle dit dit did-it,…” over and over?
I still think he could have named the song better… or written a song that sounds like Gladiators are Entering… Like, that song at the end of Excalibur where the knights are all thundering off to do battle, and there’s the latin-esque singing… THAT’S a song that says “Ready or not, I’m gonna cleave you!”
“Entry of the Gladiators” should have been named “Entry of the light-hearted entertainment…”
OMG Nick, I think you just hit upon the essence of what’s wrong with the circus song…
I AM NOT YOUR ENTERTAINMENT. I AM JUST OUT FOR A RIDE.
Singing that song not only equates me to a clown (buffoon, jester, see my definition above), but it makes me their silly entertainment. It twists and perverts everything. A clown employs physical comedy and that’s the emotion that is evoked by the song (far more so than simply asking if you are a clown).
If someone had a disability that caused them to walk funny, would the circus song be respectful? What about doing a Charlie Chaplin impression?
Some people ask if I’m a clown or in the circus. I don’t mind the question. Especially if it comes from kids. They are just asking. But the “circus song”… that’s never appropriate behavior.
the fact is that “entry of the gladiators” is a rather complicated tune!
I am wondering if people get it well.
you should learn it and complete the tune when people sing it becausse almost nobody knows the whole music.
as a replacement I get “Barnum Circus” or “vive la piste” ( a french circus tune).
bear (brassband member: bugle, cornet and sousaphone)