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V. T. Eric Layton
V. T. Eric Layton • diaspora
Shit! This little girl will be traumatized for life!
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Teedi P.
Teedi P. • friendica
I had to look closer at the bedrail where I saw those ties (I suppose for monitor wires or sheets or something) because for a moment I actually thought she was being restrained during this visit.
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Phil Landmeier (ᚠ)
Phil Landmeier (ᚠ) • diaspora
When I was a kid, (looks like my era) kids weren't afraid of clowns. I'd never even heard of such a thing until I was well into adulthood.
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Teedi P.
Teedi P. • friendica
@Phil Landmeier (ᚠ) Probably part to do with John Wayne Gacy. Pennywise certainly didn't help later.
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Phil Landmeier (ᚠ)
Phil Landmeier (ᚠ) • diaspora
Yeah, I have no facts here, just my observations. It seems to me that scary clown movies created a generation of people afraid of clowns.

I remember being in large groups of grade school children in the 1950s and we all loved the clown(s). The same at circuses, which my parents and I often attended (Los Angeles). Kids flocked to the clowns. Whether they were funny, or sad, or hobos didn't matter. I think we were all perfectly aware there was a man inside there wearing makeup and the whole thing was fun. We all hoped he would pay attention to us and do a magic trick or give us some oddball item from his pocket.
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Clara Listensprechen
Clara Listensprechen friendica
Rod Serling didn't help either, and he pre-dates Gacy. Not so much Twilight Zone, although that did spookify toys--but his Night Gallery. If you've never seen Leslie Neilson do anything but comedy, you should check out the Night Gallery episode he's in. Chills galore.
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Phil Landmeier (ᚠ)
Phil Landmeier (ᚠ) • diaspora
Thinking about this a bit more, a logical argument I can make is that McDonalds would sure as heck not have chosen a clown as their mascot and primary promoter, the face of McDonalds, if there was any significant negative connotations. There weren't. At the time, combining Bozo the Clown with cheeseburgers was a magical combination that was wildly popular.
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Clara Listensprechen
Clara Listensprechen friendica
True. And Bozo has attained beloved immortality at this point. Among beloved clowns, there's the now forgotten Freddie the Freeloader of Red Skelton's.
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Clara Listensprechen
Clara Listensprechen friendica
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Clara Listensprechen
Clara Listensprechen friendica
Ya, that's a send-up of Emmet Kelly. However, this one's my personal fave. Damon Wayans ROCKS!
And I actually have this tee, which looks like goes for $250 these days. I ain't selling mine.
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V. T. Eric Layton
V. T. Eric Layton • diaspora
...there’s the now forgotten Freddie the Freeloader of Red Skelton’s.
I've not forgotten Freddie. Red Skelton was a super-fav of mine as a child. I could hardly wait for his weekly show to come on back then. It was a highlight of my week, along with another fav Mitch Miller's show. ;)
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Clara Listensprechen
Clara Listensprechen friendica
Dang. Those are two other interests in common. In my undergrad Creative Writing class, I relied heavily on the concept of Red's "Silent Spot" with a stage play assignment. Irked my instructor that there was no dialogue, but after arguing my case, got an A anyway. :-}}
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Clara Listensprechen
Clara Listensprechen friendica
...now I'm wondering if Marcel Marceau qualifies as a clown, although a mime.
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V. T. Eric Layton
V. T. Eric Layton • diaspora

Marcel Marceau - Wikipedia

...most famous for his stage persona, "Bip the Clown".

French mime and actor (1923-2007)

Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)
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Clara Listensprechen
Clara Listensprechen friendica
Works for ME.
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Clarice Boomshakalaka Bouvier
Clarice Boomshakalaka Bouvier • diaspora
the smithsonian has a word about clowns
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/the-history-and-psychology-of-clowns-being-scary-20394516/
tl;dr we've been unsettled by clowns for centuries, for such is their job. To kids they're an understandable possible horror bc of the manic behaviour and general peculiarity. Same with the guy in the red and white suit in the middle of summer ;)

The History and Psychology of Clowns Being Scary

You aren’t alone in your fear of makeup-clad entertainers; people have been frightened by clowns for centuries
Linda Rodriguez McRobbie (Smithsonian Magazine)
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Clara Listensprechen
Clara Listensprechen friendica
Well, some people. Wannabe clowns go to Clown School to avoid scaring people as professionals...but there's such an org to become a scary clown, I'm afraid. The pinnacle of such ..erm... institutions ...would be Barnum & Bailey's Clown College, no longer in existance. There are no horror clowns among Rodeo Clowns, and every kid that ever went to a rodeo came to admire and respect rodeo clowns.

A ballad was written about one...

https://youtu.be/HFIkX3oxIl4
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Clarice Boomshakalaka Bouvier
Clarice Boomshakalaka Bouvier • diaspora
and the clowns that greeted the children escaping Ukraine with their mums were pretty dang sweet πŸ˜€
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Clara Listensprechen
Clara Listensprechen friendica
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Phil Landmeier (ᚠ)
Phil Landmeier (ᚠ) • diaspora
Yeah, rodeo clowns. Talk about NO FEAR.
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Clara Listensprechen
Clara Listensprechen friendica
They're the most important clowns in the world.
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