[QUOTE=seadawg;29986]for the “Emmett Kelly” impersonaters that appear on here from time to time…much prefer sequestering them to “ignore list”…anything else is a waste of time…as to capt. robert: “see ya-wouldn’t want to be ya”!![/QUOTE]
Seadawg, kudos for the reference to the great Emmett Kelly! For those who may not be familiar, he was most famous as a circus clown, as well as a trapeze artist, and appeared in TV and film. He was a lifelong performer.
He helped to try to save lives at the Hartford Circus Fire in 1944, where 167 people died. Here’s a photo of him helping out with the bucket brigade…
