Did you know he’s a bottle brunette? His natural hair color is strawberry blonde.

Someone's turned the chest out alow and aloft.

Of all mad creatures, if the learned are right, / It is the slaver kills, and not the bite.

[Phineas Taylor] Barnum turned profits detecting humbug, staging humbugs, and in authoring books that present him as a humbug. In each case he operated by aestheticizing humbug: in writing tongue-in-cheek reform literature about avoiding humbug, in creating narratives or mythologies to advertise his own humbugs, and in celebrating in prose his own ability to balance contradictory roles.