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snurri ([personal profile] snurri) wrote2008-01-18 11:36 am

No Sex, No Drugs, No Wine, No Women, No Fun, No Sin, No You, No Wonder It's Dark

I haven't really been posting about Kenya because it's depressing enough to read about it, let alone recap it. Suffice it to say that things are not better. You may have heard that China's government newspaper asserts that the Kenya situation proves that Africa is not ready for Western-style democracy and needs dictators to keep order. Project much?

Researchers at the University of Sheffield have learned that children don't like clowns, and some are afraid of them. This is news? The clowns, however, are in denial. I can't say that I found clowns scary as a child; I was mostly indifferent to them. Nowadays I simply don't trust them, and when I see them on the bus I keep my hand near my wallet.

[Poll #1123430]

[identity profile] squirrel-monkey.livejournal.com 2008-01-18 06:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Ditto on JWG -- I can't believe he wasn't in the poll. I was so ready to click that ticky box.

[identity profile] snurri.livejournal.com 2008-01-18 06:10 pm (UTC)(link)
I guess it was too obvious. Also NOT VERY FUNNY.

[identity profile] squirrel-monkey.livejournal.com 2008-01-18 06:15 pm (UTC)(link)
I thought we were talking about really scary.

[identity profile] snurri.livejournal.com 2008-01-18 06:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Mostly I was just going for laughs. Although in retrospect It was pretty obvious and probably genuinely scary to a lot of folks. Gacy is a little too real, though.

[identity profile] rnb.livejournal.com 2008-01-18 07:38 pm (UTC)(link)
I came to say the same thing. Gacy is the reason I don't like clowns.

[identity profile] snurri.livejournal.com 2008-01-18 07:39 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't think I'd even heard of Gacy until I was in my twenties. Which seems odd.

[identity profile] rnb.livejournal.com 2008-01-18 07:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, it all went down in the Chicago suburbs, which is the area I grew up in, so I remember hearing about it all at a very young age.