P.T. Barnum lies

I am going to start signing all letters, emails, texts, etc in the manner of P.T. Barnum writing to the editor of the Nation: "In great haste, truly yours." I think it will add that little something extra to my professional correspondence.

Sometimes I make up jokes that feature P.T. Barnum and Captain Ahab walking into a bar.

I was once a ventriloquist in Barnum's American Museum. It was the only job I could get that didn't involve selling opium for John Jacob Astor.