A clown performance is classified as “funny, just not very funny”.
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Clown’s register their particular makeup… probably so that police can identify them more easily when a group of hikers gets chopped up.
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Acrobatics and overstated mime are just two of the things about clowns that make them memorable as that circus act that was performing when you went for popcorn and soda…
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The word “clown” comes from Icelandic klunni meaning “clumsy person”. One wonders why they had to go all the way to Iceland to find a word for clowns… they had to call them something in places that already HAD clowns. I can’t imagine any of them saying, “We need a word for this guy acting like an idiot for our entertainment. I know! Let’s get it from those people who eat rotten shark and live on an active volcano”
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Some people think that the scariest clown was Penny-wise from Stephen King’s It; but, I disagree. I think the scariest clown is pretty much all of them.
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President Nixon signed into law National Clown Week. If you think about it, he probably did it to draw attention away from his earlier National Flesh-Eating Beetle Week which went about as well as you’d expect.
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Fear of clowns is called “Coulrophobia”, from the Latin for “common sense”…
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The opera Pagliacci has a main character who is a clown. He isn’t what most modern people think of as a clown because he only ever ends up stabbing two people to death.
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There is a Clown Code of Ethics, believe it or not; and, I checked: Nowhere in the document do they forbid chopping up hikers.
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Clowns may look dangerously insane; but, without their makeup, they look no different than any other sexually twisted psychopath.
have you read “It”?
I can’t remember if I ever read a book about clowns… hm 🤔
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Thus Spake Zarathustra had a clown in it…
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damn! it was so long ago… is he dead like “God”? or..? :))
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You don’t remember the tightrope walker being “buried” in a hollow tree?
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I laughed at how clowns were named. Now, I am wondering what name they would come up for me and where they would get it?
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Not sure the name but I AM sure they’d get it from Turkmenistan…
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It’s a testament to how much I like you that I even read this list. Clowns.
*shudder*
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We have a clown school in this city, well it’s actually called a “circus arts” school, but we all really know what that means. We’re just churning them out here so they can go out into the world and wreak havoc.
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New Zealand has some interesting exports, Joanne!
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True story: As a college student, I once went to an audition for Ringling Bros. clown school when they came here to NYC. I had no idea what to expect, I just thought it would be fun. I met a guy who brought a duck with him. The duck was very smart and did all kinds of tricks. When I asked him how long it took the duck to learn those tricks, he told me two years. I told him that was very impressive. He said, “Yes, but the duck’s life span is only two and a half years, so I have to start over again after six months each time.” At that point I knew I had to get out of there…
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At least he’d get a good meal to start him off on the next one…
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😀 I loved clowns as a kid and have seriously wondered at what point they became evil.
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