You won't believe your eyes in the two-page spectacular, X-E Visits The Carnival. Once a year, my local mall's parking lot is converted into one of the most makeshift amusement parks a person could see, featuring everything from broken rides to shitty prizes, but above all else...THE WORLD'S SMALLEST WOMAN. There's a lot to see in this incredible tale of goldfish-winning and Spidey-hunting, so grab yourself ten gallons of life-giving liquid and prepare for a trip down one of the strangest lanes yet to be featured on the site.
Posted by Matt on 06/14/2004. E-mail me!
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We used to have a similar (without the sideshow, probably for the better) American travelling carnival come to Faubourg de l’Île shopping centre here in Pincourt each year, though they haven’t been here since the mid-90s. Yes, it was populated by tattoo-covered carnies of exactly of the sort made fun of by Beavis and Butt-Head, South Park, and, of course, Austin Powers. My brother, Nick (or maybe it was John), claimed that he saw one of them taking a leak on the mechanism of the… umm, whatever that ride’s called when you walk into the giant drum and get strapped into a cage along the wall and experience the fun of centrifugal force. The one that came to ours had a full arcade, though I seem to remember that they charged a buck just to play Hard Drivin’, and I think Altered Beast was something like 50 cents a go.
Also, I recently read, but I don’t remember where it was, an exposé on stuffed animals at carnivals, and they found stuff like used bandages (the gauze kind) within the toys.