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Children are 'scared of hospital clowns'
Telegraph ^
| December 26, 2007
| Sarah Womak
Posted on 12/26/2007 6:19:51 AM PST by Kaslin
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posted on
12/26/2007 6:19:51 AM PST
by
Kaslin
To: Kaslin
Time for your tests kid!
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posted on
12/26/2007 6:22:56 AM PST
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: billorites
Stephen King ruined the clown business for a few bucks. Damn him.
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posted on
12/26/2007 6:24:22 AM PST
by
HD1200
To: Kaslin
I always hated clowns. There was something about something that looked somewhat human but not quite that really bothered me.
Interesting, also, that the kids found the decor *babyish*.
Funny how adults have all these ideas about what kids like and nobody ever bothers to ask the kids before all the time and effort is wasted.
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posted on
12/26/2007 6:24:39 AM PST
by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
To: Kaslin
Can’t sleep, the clowns will eat me...can’t sleep, the clowns will eat me...
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posted on
12/26/2007 6:25:09 AM PST
by
OCCASparky
(Steely-Eyed Killer of the Deep)
To: Kaslin
Coulrophobia - who knew it had a name.
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posted on
12/26/2007 6:25:25 AM PST
by
mtbopfuyn
(I think the border is kind of an artificial barrier - San Antonio councilwoman Patti Radle)
To: Kaslin
Bump from all us Clown-o-phobes! (shudder!!)
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posted on
12/26/2007 6:26:44 AM PST
by
NewCenturions
('S mòr mo mhulad, 's mòr.)
To: mtbopfuyn
Got a light kid?
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posted on
12/26/2007 6:26:45 AM PST
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: Kaslin
Of course kids don’t like clowns! One got too close to my little brother at the circus and he hit the clown with his cotton candy. The clown got mad and cursed at him. Clowns are ugly and scary!
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posted on
12/26/2007 6:26:57 AM PST
by
Ditter
To: metmom
John Wayne Gacey , one of the more famous clowns.
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posted on
12/26/2007 6:29:18 AM PST
by
joshhiggins
(Do I really need to say this is sarcasm.)
To: Kaslin
Killer Klowns from Outer Space.
To: NewCenturions
I think girl clowns are the absolute worst!
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posted on
12/26/2007 6:29:51 AM PST
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: joshhiggins
Nancy Pelosi, A clown with or without makeup.
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posted on
12/26/2007 6:30:58 AM PST
by
joshhiggins
(Do I really need to say this is sarcasm.)
To: billorites
They are ALL unnatural - same goes with their French cousins, the Mimes!
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posted on
12/26/2007 6:31:24 AM PST
by
NewCenturions
('S mòr mo mhulad, 's mòr.)
To: Kaslin
I just always thought they were stupid and not very funny.
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posted on
12/26/2007 6:32:05 AM PST
by
tiki
(True Christians will not deliberately slander or misrepresent others or their beliefs)
To: Kaslin
Another factor is the representation of evil clowns in films such as Stephen King's It.No, the fear of clowns goes back at least to the renaissance when the harlequin was a comic figure based on the medieval depiction of an evil emissary of the devil. King merely tapped into a pre-existing intuitive archetype.
To: Drumbo
Uh-oh dude, they’re talkin smack aboutcha! ;o)
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posted on
12/26/2007 6:32:38 AM PST
by
Titan Magroyne
("Shorn, dumb and bleating is no way to go through life, son." Yeah, close enough.)
To: Kaslin
A very long time ago, the paper where I lived carried the “Rose is Rose” comic strip, and in it, Rose’s little son was terrified of clowns.
In real life, my daughter was afraid of clowns when she was a child. Nothing I could think of to say seemed to help.
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posted on
12/26/2007 6:33:30 AM PST
by
Joya
(Hark! the herald angels sing, Glory to the newborn king. Peace on earth and mercy mild ...)
To: Kaslin; MotleyGirl70; Cagey; Mr. Brightside; jdm; Rb ver. 2.0; ShadowDancer
I was always afraid of nuns. I had countless nightmares about them.
To: tiki
I just always thought they were stupid and not very funny.Originally they were depicted as stupid, gluttonous, but physically agile. IOW, clownish.
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