I grew up going to the state fair, but I’d never seen the midway barker before. They only started the character nine or ten years ago. The midway is right in the middle of the fair, where the ...

The carnival barker, a "carney" for short, stands on the podium in front of the midway. His job is to use deceit and obfuscating language to lure suckers into choosing the fraud of the midway over ...