When I was younger and messier, I worked briefly in a circus. I wasn't terribly good at my job, which was to fill an advertising blimp called an impar with helium and let it rise on a long cable. People would then see the blimp and decide that an evening watching clowns give children phobias would be entertaining.
The impar had an arrangement which meant I could let more helium into it without having to reel it in. I managed to get it up to eighty feet fairly regularly, which was a pretty impressive length.
One week a couple of clowns called Caane and Ecossis decided it would be a good idea to hang onto the ropes under the impar.
So I inflated the rig and up they went. I started with it fairly low, only about thirty feet up and they were going at it like mime artists in a mirror maze with all the glass taken out. Ecossis decided to 'tumble' off the ropes underneath and hang upside down by one foot, then Caane, not to be outdone, did the same thing. So I started inflating the impar a bit more to let it up to fifty feet.
I only realised something had gone wrong when the ringmaster started shouting at me: 'Enough air - ground the impar cos Ecossis and Caane fell!'
(mesi explains things badly, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 21:58, 11 replies)

No

(Smale is stuffed, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 22:35, closed)

You are a bad, bad person.
(anvil, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 22:42, closed)

Must be an accent thing
Ive said that out loud several times and after what may be 'in a fairground' Im totally lost
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 22:47, closed)

oh
Now i get it, thats a few minutes of my life I wont get back
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 23:32, closed)

You went there.
To that place.
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Wed 15 Jun 2011, 0:02, closed)

I have read the last line
several times over and it still makes little to no sense. This is surely the b3ta equivalent of one of those personalised number plates that only the car's owner fully understands.
(FirstBendBunching All four back please..., Wed 15 Jun 2011, 0:53, closed)

I think
Enough air - ground the impar cos Ecossis and Caane fell!'
may mean
In a fairground, theme park or circus and carnival
Fuck knows why though
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Wed 15 Jun 2011, 1:55, closed)

Apologies - this is my first attempt at one of these. Can I belatedly claim the ringmaster is from deepest East Anglia where -ar- is consistently pronounced as -aa- or is that cheating?
(mesi explains things badly, Wed 15 Jun 2011, 6:28, closed)

Would've been easier to have spelt the name as Carnne.
(ParaSitius is an Optimistic Pessimist, Wed 15 Jun 2011, 10:03, closed)

they were going at it like mime artists in a mirror maze with all the glass taken out
Brilliant
(Clit Ninja is having a white space party!, Wed 15 Jun 2011, 11:40, closed)

Thanks!
(mesi explains things badly, Wed 15 Jun 2011, 20:18, closed)