Siegfried and Roy

[Ivory Fair]

OK, you wanna hear a story?

Once upon a time in the far off land of Tennessee there lived a beautiful little princess named Ivory Fair.

One day, her mommy and daddy took her to the circus. The circus was fine, but what she treasured most of all was her souvenir book that she got to take home with her. On one of the pages, in between the clowns and the elephants was an advertisement for a mystical fantasy magic act called Sigfried and Roy.

Little Princess Ivory was in love with this ad, she had a thing for magicians (even gay Magicians, but she didn't know about gay then) she loved the beautiful white tigers doing magic tricks and she loved the beautiful show girls in their rhinestone covered costumes. She knew that one day, she would grow up and be a show girl in Sigfried and Roy's magic show and would get to hang out with a bunch of groovy white tigers.

Well, the little princess grew up and while she didn't become a show girl, (it seems she didn't grow up ENOUGH, she only made it to five foot two, much to short for a show girl) she did cover herself with a fair amount of rhinestones and even managed to have a white tiger of her own ............ an 8 pound one that she got at PetSmart named "Effie."

One year the grown up princess took a trip to Las Vegas with her mother and she knew that THIS would be the moment she had dreamed of! At long last she would finally get to see the show of her dreams ................ no, not the Temptations at Caesars but Sigfried and Roy, their white tigers and their show girls at the Mirage Hotel and Casino. Oh the excitement was worth more than busting the bank on the nickle slots.

The princess and her mommy drove their golden carriage that they'd rented from Budget to the Mirage and made their way, through the confusing corridors to the ticket booth to slap down two big ones on the counter and purchase tickets for that nights show. But when they got to the booth they were greeted with a sign that read................


"No Sigfried and Roy shows this week because of the Christmas holidays."



Yep, that's right there were no shows for the entire week that princess Ivory would be there because of that totally minor holiday known as "Christmas."

"WHY!!!!!!!! WHY!!!! NO!!!!!! WHY!!!!!" the princess screamed and even though her mother tried to console her by taking her shopping it could do no good, her Las Vegas vacation was ruined.

She could only console herself with the hope that ONE DAY she would go back to Las Vegas and her dream would FINALLY come true ..................

........................... until last Friday night.

WHEN STUPID ROY HAD TO GO AND WHACK THE TIGER OVER THE HEAD WITH A MICROPHONE AND GET DRAGGED OFF THE STAGE BY THE NECK AND HALF-KILLED!!!!!!!!!

And while my thoughts are with him and in all seriousness I hope he gets better I still can't help but be a bit pissy over the whole thing. I mean, how stupid do you have to be to go and hit a tiger over the head with a microphone?

In the mean time, my cat Effie and I will be appearing at the Mirage until Roy gets better. For $1 you can see Effie sit, nap, eat, poop and get fur all over everything.

[Ivory Fair]

And my apologies to Siegfried who's named I misspelled a whole bunch of times up there.

[rufffan]

Next time you are in Vegas, go see the Legends show with those Fake A_s Tempts. They do not hit anyone over the head with a microphone.

[Lynnie]

I don't know who's worse, these guys or the Crocodile Hunter...he is nuts!!


I hope Roy recovers too.

[Tempzfanat14]

That's why i stick to Kittens and Hamsters

[kalisa2]

I'm working very hard to restrain my fingers to keep the words "trick microphone" from slipping onto my keyboard...OOOOPS, there they went!!

and absolutely no disrespect to Roy...my prayers are with him. The news that the show has been indefinitely cancelled is not good :crying

[c5temptsfan]

Roy+Tiger+ microphone= Major time off!! ;D

Now , those two have been doing this for how many years?

But, seriously, I wish Roy a full recovery.

[Aba21]

And what about the fool in Harlem, NY who raised a tiger from infancy until it got too big for the apt. He got bit went to the hospital told the doctor it was a dog bite. Even a NYC doctor is smarter than that with half your hand bit off. He tried to sneak out of the hospital but they caught him. Had to sedate the tiger to get him out of the apt only to find an alligator or crocidlie in there too. Hot damn.....that's why I LOVE NEW YORK. That ain't gon never happen down here in texas....too many cowboys wit guns ready to shoot anything that moves!!!!!!!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

[kalisa2]

Aba21 said:

And what about the fool in Harlem, NY who raised a tiger from infancy until it got too big for the apt. He got bit went to the hospital told the doctor it was a dog bite. Even a NYC doctor is smarter than that with half your hand bit off. He tried to sneak out of the hospital but they caught him. Had to sedate the tiger to get him out of the apt only to find an alligator or crocidlie in there too. Hot damn.....that's why I LOVE NEW YORK. That ain't gon never happen down here in texas....too many cowboys wit guns ready to shoot anything that moves!!!!!!!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

I saw that article this a.m....how in the WORLD you going to keep a full grown tiger and a full grown alligator in an apartment? In Harlem? They must grow bigger apartments there than any I've lived in.

[Ivory Fair]

Next time you are in Vegas, go see the Legends show with those Fake A_s Tempts.

Now I DO want to see them, but I'm afraid I'm so Tempts spoiled that they would just seem like a joke to me, I'd lose self-control and just start booing them.

Now , those two have been doing this for how many years?

Roy had a dream in the early 80's about a white tiger, that was before they knew such a thing existed (kinda strange when you consider I first saw white tigers at the National Zoo in DC several years before, but anyway...) I think before then they had been working with regular tigers but everybody knows white tigers are cooler than orange tigers so they switched. I think Siegfried comes from a long line of circus people, or it might have been Roy but anyway, that's how the story goes. Now there are only 200 white tigers in the world and Siegfried and Roy own a quarter of them.

And what about the fool in Harlem, NY who raised a tiger from infancy until it got too big for the apt. .......an alligator or crocidlie in there too.

People who keep exoctic pets piss me off. When you think of how many dogs and cats are killed every day simply because there is no space for them at the shelter. It's a shame. I don't have a whole lot of tolerance for people paying big bucks for pure breads for that same reason.

[Ivory Fair]

Now here's an ethical debate, should the tiger be put down? I say no.

[MzClassic]

Ivory said:

Now here's an ethical debate, should the tiger be put down? I say no.

I agree with you Ivory, because you hear these horror stories about these circus animals quite often, especially the elephants...These animals are WILD and no amount of training, taming and abuse will take the WILD out of them..animals have sense, they'll only take so much of this so-called training that goes against their wild instincts..If you play with fire..expect to get burnt, and it's NOT the fire's fault...nuff said..

[kalisa2]

Ivory said:

Now here's an ethical debate, should the tiger be put down? I say no.

Absolutely, positively NO. What tdallas said. It isn't the tiger's fault he was born a tiger and did what his insticts told him to do, especially when he was "attacked". I'd be b&^%$-slapping anyone who bonked ME on the nose with a microphone (or anything else), no matter how lightly. Roy's just lucky that isn't how the tiger chose to react.

The amazing fact is that this hasn't happened sooner...wild is wild no matter how well-trained they seem.

[Ivory Fair]

Did anyone see Larry King last night? He had on various people related to the incident (Penn from Penn and Teller who is a friend of S&F, Tippy Hedrin who also keeps lions and tigers, Jack Hannah from the Cincinnati Zoo where most of S&F's white LIONS are kept.) There were also three people from the S&F show there (can you believe they employed 300 people? that must have been SOME show!) But anyway, one of the ladies who was in the show said that SHE thought that the tiger was actually PROTECTING Roy. She said the tiger knocked Roy's arm and Roy fell (as opposed to being tackled) and the tiger thought he was hurt and tried to protect him by carrying him off stage. Now, I don't know if there's any truth to that, but it is a more comforting thing to think about.

At any rate they did say that Roy told everyone as he was being put into the ambulance NOT to destroy the tiger and I'm sure that's what will happen.

Another thing I thought was interesting, part of their show involved Roy telling the audience that it was this tiger's "first appearance in front of an audience." I mean he said that every night. Just an interesting little showbiz tidbit and somewhere there's a link back to the Tempts and the illusion of portraying the classic five but I'm not awake enough to figure it out yet.

Anyway, Seigfried will be on Larry King tomorrow night.

[Dbaby]

I refuse to go to the circus, the zoo, or any other place that locks up animals. Well, the zoo's ok I guess, but NOT THE CIRCUS! Animals (especially elephants) have it SO BAD! You have no idea! So when I hear about Roy, I am sad, and I hope he recovers, but then I'm also not extreamly sorry because that tiger never should have been there in the first place.