...dunno if we'll ever solve that one.

This is almost obligatory for clown-related stories, I'm ashamed I didn't put it in any other clown stories I've posted, Ace's Top Ten Signs a Clown Might Have Gone Bad.

...some more clown stories.

1 Don't forget the doll in Poltergeist. That about did it for me.

2 This story makes me very sad.  And angry too.  Very angry, in fact.  So these little punks don't like clowns eh?  "Scary" are we?  They don't know what "scary" is.  They will soon find out...

3

I've hated clowns since I was a kid.  I think it all started when I was watching an episode of "Streets of San Francisco" about an evil, homicidal clown.  It sticks with me to this day, more than 30 years later.

Clowns are not as scary as vaginas though. 

 

4

Well, now I know what to get my nephews for Xmas.

And yes, I'm "that" uncle.

5 I was at a circus once and I was about ten. A friendly-looking clown came up to me and offered me a fresh flower. When I reached out to take it, I put my hand on the stem which was the only thing to hold. He lifted the flower away, demonstrating that he'd had a straw on the outside of the stem of the flower, thus leaving me holding a straw and not the flower he had theoretically offered me but had always intended to steal away from me. I think it indicates a basic failure in the concept of 'funny' as far as clowns go. Nobody else was really watching, and the joke was just 'on me'. The joke was clearly based in lying, cheating, and a bait and switch. It made me very angry. I mean, I've seen the crowd-pleasing type of clowns at Cirque du Soleil who make fun of the audience as they sit down to sort of warm people up and get them in the mood. That's a little insulting, but not lying and cheating. Then again, they don't wear makeup.