Cleaning up

I wonder if the news sensitivities of Mark Damazer have been exercised this week. The former BBC news deepthinker and Controller of Radio 4 is now Master of St Peter's College, Oxford, where plans are being finalised for their summer ball.  According to speciality entertainment promoters, Circus of Horrors, quoted in the Oxford Times, St Peter's have rejected the services of Captain Dan, The Demon Dwarf, who can pull a vacuum cleaner with his private parts. A college spokesman said "The college and the ball committee believe acts which depend in significant part on physical conditions to achieve a shock impact are less suited to the occasion than other entertainment that might have been provided by the Circus of Horrors. In the end, no contract was signed".

However Circus of Horrors have had the benefit of news coverage of a range of their acts, including Garry Stretch, who can pull his own neck skin over his head - and dwarf Captain Dan's other speciality, sitting in an "electric chair" and lighting up fluorescent tubes.   If you think Dan, Garry, Drew Blood, Hannibal Hellmurtos, Anastasia IV Blade Walker, The Girl in the Bottle, The Mongolian Laughing Boy, Iona the Oriental Contortionist, The Hula Hoop Girls, and The Kenyan Warriors would liven up your summer event, click here.