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Title: Don't send in the clowns
Post by: cpxxx on January 16, 2008, 11:02:54 AM: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080116/od_nm/clowns_odd_dc

Saw this in Yahoo

LONDON (Reuters) - Bad news for Coco and Blinko -- children don't like clowns and even older kids are scared of them.

The news that will no doubt have clowns shedding tears was revealed in a poll of youngsters by researchers from the University of Sheffield who were examining how to improve the decor of hospital children's wards.

The study, reported in the Nursing Standard magazine, found all the 250 patients aged between four and 16 they quizzed disliked the use of clowns, with even the older ones finding them scary.

"As adults we make assumptions about what works for children," said Penny Curtis, a senior lecturer in research at the university.

"We found that clowns are universally disliked by children. Some found them quite frightening and unknowable."

I have to say I quite agree. I hated clowns as a child and detest them now. Ronald McDonald is a hate figure for me.:p

Does anyone actually like clowns or even find them funny?
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Post by: indy007 on January 16, 2008, 11:06:09 AM: The only good clown is a dead clown.
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Post by: Airscrew on January 16, 2008, 11:07:44 AM: I have never liked clowns, especially as a kid, they are evil
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Post by: Coshy on January 16, 2008, 11:14:36 AM: BOOM .... good clown!
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Post by: Xargos on January 16, 2008, 11:17:35 AM: (http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c305/Lamante76/clowns.jpg)
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Post by: Treize69 on January 16, 2008, 11:49:45 AM: Clowns are one of my three phobias, (the others being spiders and chickens) so I wholeheartedly concur with this study.
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Post by: texasmom on January 16, 2008, 12:11:04 PM: Clowns are okay, as long as they're in a circus ring ~ and they stay there.
They're not great once they're up close & personal.
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Post by: bustr on January 16, 2008, 12:59:38 PM: Quote
Originally posted by texasmom
Clowns are okay, as long as they're in a circus ring ~ and they stay there.
They're not great once they're up close & personal.

I agree.

As a child I remember going to Ringling Bros. and they made the show complete. Out side of the circus thay look like strange people in stranger clothing. Nothing they did was as funny when they were not under the big top.
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Post by: BBBB on January 16, 2008, 01:11:29 PM: Clowns are one of my phobias as well. Same with spiders, needles and the Easter bunny. As a kid I would flip out if there was a clown or an Easter bunny around. Not sure why, nothing bad ever happened, I just didn't like them. I even had a bunny rabbit as a kid. I have never understood the fear.
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Post by: john9001 on January 16, 2008, 02:08:21 PM: you people are all strange. Clowns are just people with makeup and funny clothes.
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Post by: Treize69 on January 16, 2008, 02:11:32 PM: (http://www.geocities.com/hollywood/cinema/2636/pic-coll1/it-clown.jpg)

Tell me that don't scare the bejesus out of you...
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Post by: Maverick on January 16, 2008, 02:37:54 PM: I suppose if you must be fearful of something clowns would be a good item to be afraid of. They aren't all that common so you don't have to worry about them much. Frankly I don't see any reason to have a fear of them and just enjoy the act they put on.
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Post by: AWMac on January 16, 2008, 02:39:27 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Xargos
(http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c305/Lamante76/clowns.jpg)

Now yer scaring me.....

:confused:

Mac
Title: Just Pure EVIL!!!!
Post by: AWMac on January 16, 2008, 02:43:23 PM: (http://thewizardofoz.warnerbros.com/img/photo/23_ph.gif)
Evil I tell you!!!
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Post by: Treize69 on January 16, 2008, 02:45:30 PM: GGGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!!!

(Running away from the nightmare creature of my childhood)
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Post by: Rollins on January 16, 2008, 02:50:33 PM: Hey Treize, BOOGADEEBOOGADEEBOOGADEE!!!

(http://www.edibleportland.com/images/happy-hen.JPG)
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Post by: BOXGIRL on January 16, 2008, 02:51:06 PM: Clowns still creep me out till this day ok they scare the crap out of me..........i think it has something to do with Steven Kings IT but not sure...same thing with Jack in the box's ............who in there right mind has those scary things around....:(
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Post by: Treize69 on January 16, 2008, 02:52:26 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Rollins
Hey Treize, BOOGADEEBOOGADEEBOOGADEE!!!

I will kill you in the most painful method possible.
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Post by: Airscrew on January 16, 2008, 02:52:50 PM: Your painted smile hides you still
While you search yourself within

Yesterday and tomorrow's found
Fused as one upon solid ground
As all around the milling crowd
Confuse themselves with raging sounds
And their loves forgetfulness abounds

So be thankful for your greasepainted clown
If loneliness wears the crown
of the VETERAN COSMIC ROCKER
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Post by: Rollins on January 16, 2008, 02:54:24 PM: Heaps o' love back atcha, buddy! :aok :p
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Post by: AWMac on January 16, 2008, 03:05:20 PM: ?
Quote
Clowns still creep me out till this day ok they scare the crap out of me..........i think it has something to do with Steven Kings IT but not sure...same thing with Jack in the box's ............who in there right mind has those scary things around....

(http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/EPH/8140~Evil-Clowns-Posters.jpg)
C'mon Boxgirl...just for Laffs
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Post by: texasmom on January 16, 2008, 03:11:37 PM: I don't necessarily think they're frightening. Just think they're not funny.

Oh, I forgot to mention, in the rodeo pit is the right place for them as well as the circus.
Title: Don't send in the clowns
Post by: AWMac on January 16, 2008, 03:18:44 PM: Quote
Originally posted by texasmom
I don't necessarily think they're frightening. Just think they're not funny.

Oh, I forgot to mention, in the rodeo pit is the right place for them as well as the circus.

Uhhh hem... Women don't go to Rodeos to look at the clowns...
:D
Mac

Tips hat.
Title: Don't send in the clowns
Post by: Treize69 on January 16, 2008, 03:18:55 PM: Mandy: You're gonna make me ask, aren't you?
Billy: Ask what?
Mandy: What's with all the oranges?
Billy: They're not oranges, they're tangel-elos!
Mandy: Okay... what's with all the tangelos?
Billy: Clowns hate tangelos. Messes with their equilibrium.
Mandy: Who told you that fungus?
[Oranges man walks away, whistling nervously]
Mandy: Billy, you've got to get over this ridiculous fear of clowns.
Billy: Hey! Who you calling ridi-culous? Well, what about your fear of professional figure skaters?
Mandy: That's not a fear. I just don't trust the way they spin around is all.
Billy: You gotta believe me, Mandy! Clowns are nothing but ultimate evil! They wanna become the dominant species on the planet, and they'll destroy us all to make it happen!

[shouts at the top of his lungs] Destroy us all! Destroy us all! Destroy us all! Destroy us all! Destroy us all! Destroy us all! [sitting at his desk in class with his fellow students; shouting] Destroy us all! [at the chalkboard, attempting to solve a math problem; shouting] Destroy us all! [at his locker in the hallway; shouting] Destroy us all! [in Biology class, dissecting a frog; shouting] Destroy us all! [on the swingset at recess; shouting] Destroy us all! [in the lunch line; calmly to the lunch lady] I'll take the chicken. [sitting at the lunch table with Mandy and Irwin; shouting] Destroy us all! [doing sit-ups with the other kids in gym class; shouting] Destroy us all! [in the Boy's bathroom, we see Billy's feet underneath a closed stall; shouting] Destroy us all! [getting off the bus with Mandy; shouting] Destroy us all!
[he walks home off-screen, still shouting]
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Post by: john9001 on January 16, 2008, 04:03:08 PM: what was the name of that movie, "clowns from outer space"?
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Post by: Treize69 on January 16, 2008, 04:06:30 PM: "KILLER CLowns from Outer Space"
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Post by: BOXGIRL on January 16, 2008, 06:02:20 PM: AWMac no thank you that is just a good reason for a girl to run.......