#97788
03/06/2003 7:43 PM
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#97789
03/06/2003 8:08 PM
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who would have guessed that there'd be competition for this market?!
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#97790
03/06/2003 8:41 PM
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coulrophobia An unusually strong fear of clowns. Try an Internet search for coulrophobia and you'll turn up a host of sites by coulrophobes, such as the very creepy creepyclown.com and ihateclowns.com. Reportedly coined in the 1980s, coulrophobia derives from the Greek kolobathristes, which means "one who goes on stilts". From Martha Barnett's Fun Words: http://www.funwords.com/library/c.htm
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#97791
03/07/2003 12:57 AM
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So we could call a clown a coulro? Or be even more cryptic and call one a cool roe? Course, the way the arms move on stilts I suppose a cool row would be a better cryptic. Can't use cryptic as a noun, can I?
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#97793
03/07/2003 2:39 AM
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Oh, now I see why you put cool rows in the other thread, WW--that had me going, for a while.
Sign me up as a coulrophobe--I'm even afraid to go look at WO'N's site.
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#97794
03/07/2003 2:42 AM
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That site is creepy. But then there's the lyric, "Bring on the clowns" with its sad melody--and there's "Il Pagliacci"--but we don't want to discuss that horribly creepy Stephen King It!! Shudder.
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#97795
03/07/2003 2:55 AM
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Sign me up as a coulrophobe--I'm even afraid to go look at WO'N's site.
Seriously, Jackie? So are you afraid to go to that McPlace to eat?
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#97797
03/07/2003 11:20 AM
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I stand corrected, consuelo: "Send in the clowns..."
However, there is a song that has the lyric "Bring on the clowns"--but I was thinking of (hearing the melody of) "Send in the Clowns." I'll try to find the other song later today--have an early morning rehearsal, so must flee here in a couple of minutes...
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#97798
03/07/2003 2:21 PM
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afraid to go to that McPlace to eat?
Plenty real reasons to be afraid of eating there, don' need no steenkeen clowns.
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#97799
03/09/2003 12:25 AM
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Awwww, how can clowns be scary?! With their painted on smiles and their cute little hats and their big floppy shoes? With their happy, happy, happyness?
<she says as she gazes fondly at the 100+ clowns she has collected for 20 years........>
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#97801
03/09/2003 9:35 PM
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how can clowns be scary?!
Well, you provided the answer: "With their painted on smiles". I have always been afraid of things that are not--quite--human. They're just...eerie, to me; something isn't "right". I suppose phobia is a bit too strong of a word; I don't run screaming from them at parades. But if one gets close, I back away... If it was just people wearing funny wigs and clothes, I would find them funny, I'm sure. But it's those faces that give me the shivers, and no, I'm not going to the most recent link either. Scary images have a way of burning themselves into my brain.
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#97802
03/10/2003 12:03 AM
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With their painted on smiles
In the movie A Boy and His Dog, based on the Harlan Ellison short story of the same name, the residents of Oklahoma City Under, an underground enclave of post Nuclear War civilization, all made up their faces and painted on lipstick smiles. It was by no means as blatant as a clown's but all the more eerie for its subtilty.
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#97803
03/10/2003 12:17 AM
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Ew-w-w, I'll bet. [goose pimples e]
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