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This is like when PT Barnum would take out articles in local newspapers under a false name saying that PT Barnum's traveling sideshow was too amazing for any of it to be more than a fancy parlor trick
"He has dancing whales, which must be some sort of automatons, and his world's oldest woman must just be leather stretched over gears and debtor's bones!"
The doubters would take the articles and run around saying "Look, all these fantastical attractions are fake!" and the people who heard them were like "I want to see these dancing whales"
"I want to see these dancing whales"
Same
If I were a guy back in the early 1900's, yeah
It must have been easy to fool people back then
I mean, it's easy to fool people now, but back then everyone was drinking cocaine and chewing heroine gum
Fuck the leather, I want to see debtor's bones. Sounds metal as fuck.
Do you know of a book on this
I heard it from an episode of The Dollop, episode 291 to be specific
It came out back in 2017, so I legit don't remember what books they mentioned
Pretty sure they mention their sources at the end of the episode though
Thanks
