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The barker's patter is the best on the midway, and it is recited over a thumping backbeat, a precursor of sorts to Jamaican dub and rap.
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Friday and Saturday were disappointingly kitsch free, but the big pre-game concert brought the vendors out in force selling T-shirts, hats, and programs of historical significance with almost precisely the same barker's voices that they would use to sell peanuts at a ball game.
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Oh and by the way the capitalist pig was so impressed with the 870's in bith 12 & 20,. decided, .. the hell with itDont need no burdy,. .barker's scatter guns,. called a guy who still things it matters, ..
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In fact, the new bundle, even at standard prices and not the barker's low-ball one year rate, isn't much more than the cable TV bill alone.
Archive 2009-07-01 Steve Perry 2009
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Sarah Palin, however, has been waving her kids at the media like a sideshow barker's come-on and using them to keep herself in the public eye.
Archive 2009-06-01 Steve Perry 2009
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It's a double entendre, alluding to the old circus barker's cry "Ladies and gentleman, direct your attention to the center ring, performing live, without a net ..."
It's a Small World After All & the Future of Short Fiction Lou Anders 2007
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McCain's promises are no more than a carnival barker's call.
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His signature barker's drone, the extended voicing he gives to the last syllable of almost every word, washed over the Brooklyn audience like an air raid siren.
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I somewhat sadistically love that in the pocket gulping sound of my foot on the underside of an overzealous barker's jaw.
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Cirsal saw fear in the barker's eyes, but it was not fear of Fyx.
Circus World Longyear, Barry 1981
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