Fear / Dislike of Clowns

SifuPhil said:
I always thought Pennywise was a particularly horrifying clown ...

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Scared me to death and still does.. I am not a clown fan and I was in the audience at the Bozo the Clown taping. I was crying the whole time .. I actually hid when they asked for a volunteer.
 

Cookie said:
Phil, these Toronto clowns aren't just ordinary clowns -- these are big city clowns - cosmopolitan, sophisticated and upwardly mobile clowns of a higher stature than the sawdust and elephant droppings variety that most people are familiar with. I think its about the red noses, we have better red noses here. Personally I don't have a clue, but there it is.
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Oh, well, big-city clowns are a different matter entirely. :rolleyes:

Upwardly-mobile clowns - what, the patches on their jackets are from Calvin Klein? They throw Crème brûlée instead of custard pies?

Now the better red noses I can understand - that alone would elevate their status in my eyes.

Arachne said:
Scared me to death and still does.. I am not a clown fan and I was in the audience at the Bozo the Clown taping. I was crying the whole time .. I actually hid when they asked for a volunteer.
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I used to watch Bozo on TV - for some reason I was always uneasy.
 
I went to a folk-lore show in Ecuador with lots of music, dancing and singing but the odd part is that we were greeted at the door by the weirdest-looking clowns. White faces, fierce expressions, red spots on their faces. They just walked around and glared at people and frankly gave me the creeps (and I LIKE clowns).

So we asked our guide WHY the clowns were there and why were they so mean-looking. He said that the clowns are part of a lot of folkloric shows and represent the Spanish conquistadors who invaded Ecuador and persecuted/enslaved/exterminated the native Indians. Their white faces represent the pale skin of the Spaniards (well, pale in comparison to the Indians), the red spots represented the bad sunburns they got, and the fierce expressions represented their evil natures.

I imagine there aren't too many clowns at kids' birthday parties in Ecuador.
 
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Then there's this lady, run for your lives!!!!!
 
"It's so good, I Ka-rinkle every time I eat it"

I'm sure you do, you monster - I'm sure you do. :p
 

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