Clowns

[Rune]

Simple question, how do you feel about clowns? As in the comic circus, carnival kind with weird hair, overly large shoes, squirty flower buttonholes and a penchance for producing inflated dog-balloons and traumatising little kids.

Do their ... ahem ... jolly capers make you smile or do you just want to rearrange their kneecaps with a baseball bat?

My husband loathes clowns, he blames it on being menaced by one wielding a huge comb at a circus when he was 5. My kids don't like clowns either and I have to admit apart from Crusty who I can just about cope with I could take 'em or leave 'em (except Ronald McDonald who I want to drop a 16 ton weight on). I don't think of the Joker as a clown in a clown sense either.

One of my friends was traumatised by a clown at her own birthday party 30 years ago and still has the mental scars (ie hates all clowns) yet another friend thinks they are sweet and sad and has pictures of them all over her house

So ... Clowns. Good, bad or indifferent?

 

[TimTwoFace]

I hate clowns. Not cuz they're scary, but because they're so unabashedly LAME. I've never found them funny. I much prefer the depressing clowns that mope around and cry all the time.

Tragedy is easy, comedy is hard, and all that.

-Tim

 

[BLACKHEART]

What is not to love about clowns? Just look at the cute adorable clown from the movie "IT." Don't you just want to hug him?

 

[kiddiesunshine]

Clowns?!
CLOWNS?!!!!!
AAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!

Kidding. Clowns are cool. I'm not overly fond of them, but I'm not overly fond of anything.

 

[Shnay]

I think sad clowns are cool. Regular clowns aren't really funny, but they don't scare me.

Sad clowns, though....they're cool.

 

[sandwichman]

I've hated clowns ever since I was a baby, because of a recurring dream.
I'd be in my crib, and I would hear laughter and whirring. Usually, if I were awake, I'd be up and looking for the noise, but I was always tired. Anyway, I'd see some shiny orange hair come up over the end of my crib, and a blinking orange light would getting brighter and brighter. This would go on until he came all the way up, and was revealed for the evil that he was; a hard plastic clown on a pole with an orange lightbulb in it's mouth! Traumatized me forever.

EDIT: 100th post!!!!!!!

 

[Barb Gordon]

My mom absolute abhores clowns, they really bother her...and I'd always make her take me to the circus I'm all right with clowns. The artistic kind of ones you see I like, you know the ones with the tear on their cheek. That's interesting and all. Mimes I like, don't like, and feel sorry for all at once. As for circus clowns, I'm okay with them. They're fun and all that, I like watching them because they are amusing for the most part, and their stunts are rather interesting.

~Barb

 

[Danielle]

I'm scared of clowns; not the joking-type "Oh, clowns are freaky!".....the real terrifying **whimper**-type fear. Sure helps that we have a painting of a clown in our bathroom, huh? In fact, it was that picture that got me scared of clowns, since it used to hang in my bedroom. At night, its cold blue eyes would stare out into the darkness.............staring............staring..........{whimpers and huddles in the corner}

Good thing we never go to the circus!

"A clown is not a spider......a clown will not bite me and throw me in the basement......"

 

[EinBebop]

Clowns are creepy. And for some reason, I always view them as "unclean" things... sort of like homeless people. It probably has a lot to do with my view of circuses in general being peculiar, seedy institutions.

 

[ZorBrak]

Clowns scare the holy crap out of me.

 

[EightOh]

All clowns should be lain to burnination.

 

[Jaguar]

All clowns are really really really REALLY really evil, and should be damned.

 

[StarScream64]

Clowns are evil incarnate! Think about it: why would they be wearing all that make-up unless they were trying to hide something?

I remember when I was a kid, my sister took me to the circus with front row seats. When the clowns came out and did their act, one of them noticed me pouting and promptly decided to mess with me. So he took my feet and set them on the edge of the wall in front of me, then put on a mocking "pouty" face of his own.
Naturally, I didn't find this at all amusing, so now my earliest memories of clowns are of one mocking me in my face, with a creepy pout on his face.

I'm not afraid of them or anything, I just don't want to be in the same room with them.

Of course, it probably didn't help that I saw Attack of the Killer Clowns as a kid.

 

[turbomog007]

Clowns are not funny....Clowns that try to be funny are evil....Evil clowns must be destroyed before they eat us.

 

[Matthew Hunter]

Put me on the list of people who don't like them. They don't really scare me in a 'strike fear in the heart' way, but they scare me in a "that's just creepy" way. Maybe it's because I went to a little friend's birthday party when I was in preschool and had an unpleasant experience with a clown who was DETERMINED to make me like his pet skunk. The skunk had been de-scented, I guess, and it was tame, but this clown with the big nose kept coming up to me and asking me to pet the darn thing. I didn't want to, and he FOLLOWED me through this girl's big yard full of other little kids, and kept asking me to smile and pet the skunk. I didn't like clowns after that one. Cartoon clowns aren't too bad, and neither are pictures of them...it's just seeing real, live clowns I don't like.
-Matthew

 

[Nick Biped]

Can't say I'm scared of clowns, but on the other hand, I can't blame other people if they are. They aren't exactly the most pleasant things to look at.

And besides, most of them aren't funny.