Now it can be scientifically demonstrated: Kids hate clowns. Oh, how I hate me some clowns. Stupid clowns. Except Krusty, who is the anti-clown clown. And you know the worst kinds of clowns (besides Christian clowns, I mean)? MIMES!
I swear, mimes can scent fear on me. Once I was sitting in the cafeteria at LSU, and the stupid *^%$# mime dude who taught in the theater department walks in wearing mime drag, and starts his stupid *%$#@ routine. He's halfway across the cafeteria, but I stare down at my Jell-O and think, "He's going to get me. He's going to get me. He's going to get me."
Sure enough, here comes Mr. Mime, and he makes me the object of his mimesis, or whatever you call it. I turned scarlet. I'm telling you, mimes just know these things about people. They just can just tell. It's the devil in 'em, or something. It is to my everlasting discredit that I didn't pick up a slice of cream pie or something and smack that damn mime in the face with it.
Yes, I'm still bitter, all these years later. You want a piece of me, clown? Huh? HUH?
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Funny commercial during the Super Bowl had a talking baby shilling for an online stock tradeing co. The baby used his profits to buy a clown. The commercial ends with the baby looking at the clown and
saying something like "But I really underestimated the creepiness factor".
It was funnier to watch but the idea of clowns being a little creepy is true.
It is to my everlasting discredit that I didn't pick up a slice of cream pie or something and smack that damn mime in the face with it.
Credits toward Heaven, Rod. Credits toward Heaven.
Pagliacci is my avatar on the social networking side of Bnet, as a symbol of my bipolar disorder.
("Just like Pagliacci did, I try to keep my sadness hid" -- Smokey Robinson, "Tears of a Clown")
The worst, the all time worst, is a Christian clown/mime magician. Emmett Kelly is the only clown I ever liked. The rest are the essence of creepy.
I've posted this comment twice. Hope it goes through this time.
A Far Side cartoon had a mime trapped in a plastic box on a street corner with people walking by. The caption said, "The cruellest from of murder practiced by the Mafia is to take the person, dress them up as a mime, put them in a plastic cube, and let them starve to death before the public."
For a positive view of mimes, do a Youtube search on "marceau."
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