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    fyeah-history: “Fat Man” from Barnum and Bailey’s freak show, c. 1900This was the show’s “fat man” who patrons found unbelievable. He was considered freakish and large beyond believe and average sized folks actually paid for the privilege of looking at him.

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    “Fat Man” from Barnum and Bailey’s freak show, c. 1900
    This was the show’s “fat man” who patrons found unbelievable. He was considered freakish and large beyond believe and average sized folks actually paid for the privilege of looking at him.

     
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      whaaaaaaat.
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      Idiots. They could’ve just been born later, these freaks are all over today.
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      Nowadays you pretty much just need to go to your...supermarket/department store.
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      Today: average American
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      And yet today’s folks would scarcely bat an eyelash…
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      The average Wal-Mart customer was once the pinnacle of oddity.
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      Ohhhhh the irony.
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      Dude, girlfriend and I saw a guy WAAAY fucking bigger than this fatty at the mall the other day
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