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Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :

I don't have anything against clowns, but what is there deal? My nephew is scared of them, and I used to be. Why would anyone want to dress up in make-up and run around playing pranks? It is just sick. Or else I am insane.

[ December 22, 2004, 05:09 PM: Message edited by: SteveRogers ]

Posted by Puppy (Member # 6721) on :

Clowing around?

Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :

ooooooooooooooooops [Wall Bash]

Posted by Morbo (Member # 5309) on :

Welcome to the forum, Steve! [Wave]

So, you're a recovering coulrophobic? Here's a forum for ya: http://www.ihateclowns.net/forums/
Or, The World Anti-Mimimic League (I think there's an extra 'm' in there, but it's their website [Dont Know]

)
I don't understand coulrophobia, but then other people's fears are always hard to understand when you don't share them.

Posted by Morbo (Member # 5309) on :

I'm not trying to get rid of you, Steve, I just thought it's amazing that there's a well-populated forum devoted to clown-bashing.

Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :

My fears:
small places
big places
crowds
clowns
McDonald's
heights
spiders
dinosaurs
God(because of all his power...i am still an active churchgoer though)
sharks
old woman
Marilyn Manson

Wow......i really am screwed up

[ December 22, 2004, 05:18 PM: Message edited by: SteveRogers ]

Posted by Tater (Member # 7035) on :

small places and big places? Eeep.

Well, I know why I'm afraid of clowns:
IT

A plot summary of IT

'nuff said.

Posted by Dragon (Member # 3670) on :

As a circus performer, I get a lot of "oh my god, are you a clown? I'm so scared of clowns!"

I think, however, that there are two types of clown:
1. The type, like Ronald McDonald, who have all their human features completely covered, and have a wig of un-natural hair.
and
2. The type that are actually funny. Clowns are supposed to be a parody of life; when you see someone fall down the stairs, it looks funny, but you can't laugh, because they might be hurt. With a clown, you can laugh at their misforutne.

I personally am somewhat afraid of the first type of clown, because there is no way of telling if the person under the makeup, wig and bright costume is actually a human, and also no way of judging whether or not they are a scary person underneath. Sadly, the second type of clown is disappearing fast, and I don't think I've seen one, outside of the people I work with, in a long time.

(P.S.
Hi Steve! Welcome! [Wave]

)

Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :

Don't let Suneun and Mike see your posts....they aren't clowns per say , but they might sick some of their friends on you.... [Wink]

JenniK has friends that are Shrine clowns, and all they want to do is make sick kids laugh and feel better for a little bit.

So not all of them are like the clown from IT....

At least not while in public... [Evil]

Kwea

[ December 22, 2004, 06:18 PM: Message edited by: Kwea ]

Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :

I am a clown.

I strive to make sure any kids I meet come away happy, not scared.

I have been told, at McDonalds drive thru-that the woman could not take my order because she couldn't be close to a clown.

And she worked for a clown.

The truth is that kids are much scarier to clowns than clowns should be to kids.

I think part of it is, as parents we teach children to stay away from strangers. Then we take them to see these very strange looking people and insist that they be happy to see them. Then we laugh at them for being afraid.

I do not laugh.

You can never truly know the depths of anothers fear, love, or pain so never underestimate them.

Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :

Well thanks guys that really put me at ease but can any of you help with my fear of Marilyn Manson?

Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :

Some things we are supposed to be afraid of.

Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :

It would seem so. Oh wait that sounded like something an old woman would say. You aren't an old woman are you? They scare me too.

Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :

I am not an old woman, but I play one on...well, no I don't, and saying TV and Playing an old woman will confuse some people since the code for transvestite is TV which is different the TP which is both the abreviation for toilette paper and another way of saying Wigwam, not that I wear a wig that is warm or cold, or any temperature at all though some people say that a warm wig would keep my brain cells from freezing to death I doubt very seriously if the 7 remaining brain cells I have really care if I am wearing a hat or a toupee which is spelled much like teepee but is totally different, in much the same way that a little old lady from Pasedena is totally different from Marilyn Manson even if they wear the same undergarments, which would not surprise me considering the strange things that Marilyn Manson wears and the strange things some old ladies I know wear, not that they've ever shown me these things, but old men talk, when they aren't hallucinating, which can also be said about Marilyn Manson and Ozzie Ozborne, though what he has to do with these things is totally unclear much like a frosted glass of beer, not the beer so much as the frosted glass which is really hard to see through and really hard especially compared to most peoples skulls which can be proved by running a beer glass, frosted or not, into a volunteers skull and seeing which gives first.

After that, you are probably thinking that little old ladies are down right pleasant compared to the scariness that is Dan_raven.

well, that's what I'm thinking anyway.

Posted by dread pirate romany (Member # 6869) on :

Steve
Dinosaurs are extinct. Don't worry about them.

Posted by Tater (Member # 7035) on :

Dinosaurs aren't extinct. Ever seen the movie "We're Back"?
Duuuuh. [Razz]