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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]

Comments

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

Three words.

John Wayne Gacy.

(Also, I was frightened by a clown when I was young.)

[timalyne.livejournal.com]

Clowning itself is pretty cool. Still, I've always thought clowns frozen smiles to be pretty scary.

[johnaegard.livejournal.com]

The absolute worst is when you're around a clown who's bombing. Because if you're nice, like me, you want the clown to succeed and get laughs. But there's still this red-haired bozo squirting you with petunias and honking at you and in general pushing your boundaries.

I hate it when I get some empathy in my fight-or-flight.

[stevenagy.livejournal.com]

So many choices ... but I had to remain "true to my school" so to speak. Plus, the only scary clown I ever saw was Bill Murray in that awful bank heist movie with Gena Davis and Randy Quaid. Can't even recall the name and don't want to kill the TGIF mood. :-)

[scarypudding.livejournal.com]

The underage clowns at Jugend Circus Basilisk were pretty funny, even in a language known for its not-funny.

Then again, if they'd turned out to be forty-year-old midget clowns pretending to be children, that would have been kinda creepy.

[o-kiki.livejournal.com]

The movie Poltergeist (wherein scary clown doll tries to kill Robbie), together with the movie It, and the JWG thing pretty much put me off clowns for good.

[carnwrite.livejournal.com]

Where's the "all of the above" option? ;)

[tacithydra.livejournal.com]

Clowns are creepy because they have achieved the Uncanny Valley through makeup and odd movements.