Source: 63 Icebreaker Questions For Adults (Not all of which will be used)
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If you were to perform in the circus, what would you do?
I’d be the guy who takes the PeTA people protesting our elephants and shoots them out of a cannon.
Don’t worry. They’ll land on something soft. Near the back of the elephant.
Hope they don’t hit the shovel…
Ring Master
Drive the Clown Car.
Ride the elephant.
What’s that?…No more elephants?!
Dammit!
I’d replace the big paper ring that the clowns bust through with a steel one.
Then I’d lead the knife-thrower’s or trick-shooter’s assistant, the lovely Miss Evangeline, into the center ring by her white-gloved hand and remove her cape for her.
Then I’d go backstage and replace the clowns’ pistols that have the little “Bang” flag with real ones, and put a real powerful gunpowder charge in the cannon.
Oh, and I’d challenge Yosemite Sam to a high-diving contest into an ordinary glass of water.
Throw knives at clowns.
…and we would throw them right back at you. Don’t blame your frickin Coulrophobia on us!
And speaking of clowns:
More like coprophobia.
Solo William Tell act with a flaming metal boomerang.
A rope aerialist who also juggles.
Because when I did train and work with the circus, that’s what I did. Also handled the follow spot.
I still juggle pretty well, but like most aerialists I had to quit that when I had too many injuries, one of which I just had surgically repaired a few weeks ago. It’s not all done with mirrors, you know.