Talk:Dog and pony show

Other Modern uses...
While in the US NAVY it was frequently the term we used to describe the inpromptu tours and demos of aircraft systems during airshow static displays, VIP tours, and informal visits by seniors in our chain of command. I believe the practice continues to this day and probably crosses to other services as well.

The big issue here is finding a suitable reference citation to support what I know to be true. Why waste my time when some wiki-big brother who doesn't care a hoot about accuracy of the article wants to make a name for himself as the enforcer of wiki rules. Those rules quite frankly get a bit rediculous... IMO. Oh well, perhaps someone can find a satisfactory ref to quote... Thanks --Steve (talk) 17:20, 10 March 2008 (UTC) I'm sorry, but I have an alternative source/etymology for this phrase that isn't quite so socially acceptable. In the version explained to me, it derives from sex shows across the border from San Diego, in Tijuana. These shows featured females having sex with dogs and ponies. This is entirely consistent with my experience of coloquialisms derived from military backgrounds. I have no citations to quote, but this is far more believeable to me than "circus acts" becoming such a pervasive basis of these cliches. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Xmxplxz (talk • contribs) 22:57, 18 April 2011 (UTC)

I'd never heard the term "dog and pony show" used despite growing up in the Midwest in the 50s where small traveling circuses were commonplace. The phrase first came to my attention when the USN ship I was assigned to made a port call in the Philippines in '68 and we had an opportunity to watch one...good looking young women in their late teens and 20s performing sex acts with, you guessed it, dogs and ponies. IMO, the other explanations are just politically correct adaptions of the real show. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Felix01 (talk • contribs) 19:09, 4 October 2012 (UTC)

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