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01/16/2008 11:03:22 AM · #1 |
I was reading th eBBC news website and this came up. Thought it was topical considering the latest challenge:
Why are clowns scary?
I'd like to add another one to that list:
Slipknot's 6th member Clown |
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01/16/2008 12:36:25 PM · #2 |
Thanks for linking this story. I've always loved clowns, personally. And, to be honest, I love scary clowns even more than I like regular clowns. As they said in the article, I really think it has to do with a fear of unknown and masked people, though I would hesitate to say that was the sole cause. Afterall, we have masked heroes but few (none?) hero clowns.
But it's fascinating nonetheless and the challenge was a hoot. |
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01/16/2008 12:41:17 PM · #3 |
Clowns being scary is a modern/recent thing perpetuated through films like Child's Play, which have put out images of evil clowns for the past 20 something years - with very little in the way of equal 'good clown' stuff.
Ronald McDonald manages to carry it off somehow...must be the additives in the food ;)
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01/16/2008 01:11:51 PM · #4 |
where was there a clown in Child's Play?
Originally posted by Quasimojo:
Clowns being scary is a modern/recent thing perpetuated through films like Child's Play, which have put out images of evil clowns for the past 20 something years - with very little in the way of equal 'good clown' stuff.
Ronald McDonald manages to carry it off somehow...must be the additives in the food ;)
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01/16/2008 01:18:43 PM · #5 |
John Wayne Gacy aka "Pogo" the clown.
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01/16/2008 01:29:22 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by Chinabun:
where was there a clown in Child's Play? |
Ok....killer doll...clown... turning the innocence of children's play into adult mechanisms for fear
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01/16/2008 01:48:45 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by Quasimojo:
Originally posted by Chinabun:
where was there a clown in Child's Play? |
Ok....killer doll...clown... turning the innocence of children's play into adult mechanisms for fear
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Fear based in fact.
Pogo the Clown
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01/16/2008 02:31:55 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by Quasimojo:
Clowns being scary is a modern/recent thing perpetuated through films like Child's Play, which have put out images of evil clowns for the past 20 something years - with very little in the way of equal 'good clown' stuff. |
That's really not true. Little kids have been terrified by clowns for countless generations. Not all of them, of course, but plenty of them. This "modern" take on it is just playing off that primal fear. Clowns aren't the only thing that's being spun dark in current film-making. Child's play, for instance, does it to dolls.
R.
ETA: from Wiki, see:
Clowns spread in cultures of any time and place, because they meet some deeply rooted needs in humanity: violation of taboos, the mockery of sacred and profane authorities and symbols, reversal of language and action, and a ubiquitous obscenity.[1] An interesting example can be found in the Native American clown societies.
Studies have found that clowns are universally disliked and feared by children.
Message edited by author 2008-01-16 14:33:37.
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01/16/2008 02:36:03 PM · #9 |
If clowns are scary, why do you think McDonald's (the fast food joint) chose a clown as their logo/representative/mascot?
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01/16/2008 02:49:54 PM · #10 |
Originally posted by Strikeslip:
If clowns are scary, why do you think McDonald's (the fast food joint) chose a clown as their logo/representative/mascot?
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Less scary than the stuff in the hamburgers? :-D
Ofcourse we are talking about the same people that serve chicken head mcnuggets.
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01/16/2008 02:50:23 PM · #11 |
because their arteries were clogged from all that grease which also cut off circulation of air to the brain....I'll take a #9 with a large sweet tea Please!
Originally posted by Strikeslip:
If clowns are scary, why do you think McDonald's (the fast food joint) chose a clown as their logo/representative/mascot?
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01/16/2008 02:50:34 PM · #12 |
Originally posted by Strikeslip:
If clowns are scary, why do you think McDonald's (the fast food joint) chose a clown as their logo/representative/mascot?
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So that children would hassle their parents to buy them happy meals despite overwhelming evidence to suggest that dogfood is more nutritious and healthy? Rawwwwwwr.
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