h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Seriously.

It seems to be very fashionable to hate clowns, and I was wondering why. What's wrong with them? Is this a result of films, of being reluctantly dragged to the circus, of being singled out for ridicule by one...

Obviously I'm a prole with no taste at all, since I actually quite like the good ones.

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I've found clowns disturbing as long as I can remember,there was no triger for it as far as I know either..they just look evil!

Can't say I have a problem with them.

Maybe they're just seen as unfashionable by the modern sofisticated yoof

My mate loves clowns !

I love the way they look, even though as a general rule slapstick doesn't really appeal to me...

...oh and then there's "It"

yep - Pennywise the Clown from IT does make clowns seem sinister. The only book I read that made me sleep with the light on (I was 14 at the time). Until later....
BCNU - Crescent

Clowns just are evil. I don't think there was a special event that made me think this way, although seeing IT hasn't helped I'm sure. But even the normal ones look devious to me. They try to look all happy and cheery, but underneath that make-up they are pure evil.

"We all float down here, George."

Well, Gacy was an evil clown. But I think clowns in general are a bit of a left over from pagan times, with the face paint having some roots in dressing up as daemons and devils. A bit like KISS. But don´t quote me on that.

Nope ,never been keen on them .used to like the pierot lumiare (?)
in the interests of balance......
http://www.coai.org/
http://www.ihateclowns.com/

Clowns of America INTERNATIONAL, hmm something's wrong about that but I can't put my finger on it.

Nbcdnzr.You made me much more than a Clown ever did

Don't you approve?
One who keep tearing around; one who can't move?

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All the clowns I have ever met were really nasty dirty horrible brutes who just wanted to steal my pertunia's and try to kill me, they have one of the highest levels of gun ownership of automatic weapons by profession with the only exception being that of the police I think

***Warning the follwing is probably unrelated***

They're playing "Death of a Clown" by the Kinks at my funeral

Sadly...

the clown has fallen from grace.

I blame Hollywood for the cliche of the 'evil' clown that has persisted for the past century.
Was it a clown who cared about Dumbo?

No, it was a mouse who gave that great elephant the will to fly.

The clowns were all busy running around setting fire to the big top.

No, I most certainly do not approve.
Send in the clones.

~jwf~

The history of Clowning and related..
http://www.fortunecity.com/tattooine/leiber/50/dgclowns.htm

I'm just suspicious of anyone who covers up their face.I'm also very freaked by mime artists too.I just want to beat up every street mime I see these days,especially those ones that pretend to be statues and then make you jump.Hate 'em passionately.

Xanatic, you do know that KISS were involved in making a computer game called Psycho Circus?

I wasn't at all surprised that Tracey Emin chose to put clowns into Room 101 on Monday. But I was fairly shocked Paul Merton let them in.

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Clowns - their smiles don't reach their eyes. Anyone who is not disturbed by them is disturbed!