Okay, I Know You Want To Admit It.....

Brady, my very first doll was named Emmett Kelly, after the famous clown.

I did not fear him. He was my favorite doll.

I had a friend once who was afraid of clowns. If there was one doing face painting or making balloon animals in the park, he would freak out and have to leave. I thought it was a strange fear but I never laughed at him. I just stayed with him as we changed direction. And he did not laugh at me for making him drive my car approaching a bridge, watching me get out of the car and walking across that bridge spanning water, before getting back in the car. I know what caused my phobia. I never bothered him for the reasons he feared clowns. Each of us have our own baggage.

I don't have a fear of clowns, per se. However, I do want all mimes to die really horrible and grotesque deaths while screaming in agony.

Call it a fantasy, if you must.

Brady, if I dressed up as a clown, would you be afraid of me?

I have this really beautiful porcelain clown my parents got me in New Orleans. It's in my daughters room, at the top of her closet. It always looks like the eyes are watching me, freaky!

If you put Brady there in its place, you'd have the same reaction.

I'm soooooooooo tempted to post a clown picture. But I don't want Brady to get upset.

I used to have a terrifying fear of clowns as a kid, nightmares and all. The fear was at its most uncontrollable at night and the worst clown of them all was Ronald McDonald.

Funny now that my favourite horror stories are about clowns (IT and The Pilo Family Circus and I even wrote a short flash piece about a nightmare I had as a kid that I can still remember to this day.

I don't have a terrible fear of clowns but I so don't like 'em. The reason is because I think they hide behind their true feelings and are really not so nice. imho. Of course, not all clowns are that way, but it's just my general opinion about them.

How's this?


Okay, you can look again, I got rid of the clown.

rhymegirl said:

How's this?
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Frightening, yet somehow soothing.

Send them in...

rhymegirl said:

How's this?


Okay, you can look again, I got rid of the clown.

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No you didn't. Silver King is still here.

I can't lay claim to a clownish phobia, but I had a problem with something...similar.

When I was a child, the Lil Abner cartoon strip was very popular, and one piece of merchandise derived from it was a very simple inflated vinyl Shmoo. I put mine away in the attic and had nightmares about it.

Is this better, Brady?
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If you were lucky like me and grew up with Howdy Doody, Buffalo Bob, and Clarabell (the clown) you'd never be afraid of them.
Phineas T. Bluster? that's a different matter.

Oops, I think I scared him away.

Sorry Brady.

"I heard a joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life is harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world. Doctor says, "Treatment is simple. The great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go see him. That should pick you up." Man bursts into tears. Says, "But doctor... I am Pagliacci." Good joke. Everybody laugh. Roll on snare drum. Curtains." - Rorschach, Watchmen...

robeiae said:

No you didn't. Silver King is still here.

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Not anymore!

rhymegirl said:

Is this better, Brady?
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...Holy crap-oh-moon-doe