So there's this kid who loved the circus. Or at least loved the sight of it. At the age of 7 Timmy was a kid who idolized the circus, clowns, the animals, everything! Unfortunately, his parents never had time to take him. On his birthday, however, the circus happened to be in town and his parents brought him. During the main show, three clowns had much fun at the expense of audience members--spraying seltzer in their faces, telling jokes where they were the punchline, etc etc. Finally, it's nearing the end of the show and only one clown is left, and he asks for a volunteer. Little Timmy raised his hand as high as he could, and to his delight, the clown called him up. As Timmy approaches, excited, nervous, but most of all ecstatic, the clown takes out a small stick and points to Timmy with it, obviously trying to get him to grab hold. As Timmy does so, the clown looks out to the crowd, and yells out "Hey everybody, we got a sucker on a stick!"
Little Timmy, crestfallen, runs crying back to his mom and dad. He went to school the next day and was labelled sucker--it got so bad that eventually he and his family had to move and he had to change schools.
Eleven years later, he and his friends decide it'd be a fun idea to get drunk and go to the circus. As the show neared ending once more, the clown once again asked for a volunteer. Tim now rose his hand, sure he'd come up with something suave, cunning, and biting as a comeback to the clown. As he gets up there though he takes the stick once more, and the clown once again yells out "Look everybody, we got a sucker on a stick!" Tim, being drunk, cannot think of a single thing to say to the clown. He looks over to his friends who are now laughing themselves into a stupor, and walk off without him. He ends up walking home.
At the age of 34, Tim is now a succesful businessman, owning a brokerage on Wall Street. He's grossed billions in his lifetime, and he has a side company where he buys out dead or dying pharmaceutical companies, whose sole job are to consolidate their Research and Development centers and they are all working full time on the cure for cancer. As his 35th birthday comes up, his debutante girlfriend brings up how much she loves the circus. Tim, having forgotten what happened the past two times, decides to have him and her go to the circus for his birthday. He figured it'd be worth getting away from all the suits for a change. Once again, the end of the show comes up, and once again Tim is called up to the clown. As he grabs the stick, the clown shouts out "Hey everybody, we got a sucker on a stick!"
Tim, mustering all his rage that he's been holding through the show, realizing that this was the same clown who embarrassed him two times before, looked at the clown with an evil scowl on his face and said: "**** you clown."
Shallow Hal
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