# Clowns. Come on, who hasn't secretly wanted to do this? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 21, 2007, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-come-on-who-hasnt-secretly-wanted-to-do-this/393145 "2007-02-21T21:55:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2007, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-come-on-who-hasnt-secretly-wanted-to-do-this/393145/21 "2007-02-22T15:24:26Z")
If you’ve ever watched the _documentary_ called **[Killer Klowns from Outer Space](http://imdb.com/title/tt0095444/)**, you’d understand the fear this person may have felt besides, the article didn’t specify if they were **C** lowns, _or_ **K** lowns… ---
**Author:** ![rhythmonly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ee59a6/32.png) [@rhythmonly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rhythmonly)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2007, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-come-on-who-hasnt-secretly-wanted-to-do-this/393145/22 "2007-02-22T16:52:36Z")
Mimes?!? They get no sympathy from me. I’m sorry for the Cannibals. Who can’t eat Clowns. Because they taste funny. ---
**Author:** ![Slypork](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc29f/32.png) [@Slypork](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slypork)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2007, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-come-on-who-hasnt-secretly-wanted-to-do-this/393145/23 "2007-02-22T19:22:51Z")
[QUOTE=MacTech] If you’ve ever watched the _documentary_ called **[Killer Klowns from Outer Space](http://imdb.com/title/tt0095444/)**, you’d understand the fear this person may have felt besides, the article didn’t specify if they were **C** lowns, _or_ **K** lowns… [/QUOTE] It doesn’t matter, all clowns are evil and must be destroyed > **[Clownz.com](https://clownz.com/)** > **[Evil clown](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_clown)** > > The evil clown is a subversion of the traditional comic clown character, in which the playful trope is instead depicted in a more disturbing nature through the use of horror elements and dark humor. The modern archetype of the evil clown was popularized by the DC Comics supervillain Joker starting in 1940, and again in the 1980s by Pennywise from Stephen King's It. The character can be seen as playing on the sense of unease felt by sufferers of coulrophobia, the fear of clowns. The character is ... ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2007, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-come-on-who-hasnt-secretly-wanted-to-do-this/393145/24 "2007-02-22T20:10:46Z")
I am envisioning the trial… A tiny car careens into the courtroom, and a thousand jurors come tumbling out of it. Attorneys wearing gigantic floppy shoes take their places. The judge enters, is seated on a whoopee cushion, and proceeds to bang a humongous gavel on a watermelon. The bailiff calls the court to order by squeaking his bulbous, red nose. In the end, the defendant is found not guilty by reason of inanity. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2007, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-come-on-who-hasnt-secretly-wanted-to-do-this/393145/25 "2007-02-22T20:25:48Z")
The killer has the perfect defense: He thought he was shotting [John Wayne Gacy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wayne_Gacy) ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2007, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-come-on-who-hasnt-secretly-wanted-to-do-this/393145/26 "2007-02-22T20:28:24Z")
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas] The killer has the perfect defense: He thought he was shotting [John Wayne Gacy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wayne_Gacy) [/QUOTE] Or [Anna Nicole Smith](http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2007/02/21/anc260.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2007, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-come-on-who-hasnt-secretly-wanted-to-do-this/393145/27 "2007-02-22T21:56:04Z")
[QUOTE=MannyL] I need you need to use a silencer for that. [/QUOTE] I wouldn’t talk if I were you. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2007, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-come-on-who-hasnt-secretly-wanted-to-do-this/393145/28 "2007-02-22T22:15:43Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] I wouldn’t talk if I were you. [/QUOTE] You’re right, the Mimes are all around, and they are watching, silently watching our every move… ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2007, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-come-on-who-hasnt-secretly-wanted-to-do-this/393145/29 "2007-02-22T22:45:44Z")
You guys better stop making fun of this; haven’t you ever heard of the Insane Clown Posse. Yeah, they come after guys just like you. That music thing is just a front. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2007, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-come-on-who-hasnt-secretly-wanted-to-do-this/393145/30 "2007-02-22T22:53:09Z")
My aunt lived in Colombia for many, many years. But she was safely tucked away in Medellin, far away from Cucuta, where she could have easily been a casualty of clown-related violence. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2007, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-come-on-who-hasnt-secretly-wanted-to-do-this/393145/31 "2007-02-22T23:05:33Z")
You guys wouldn’t be laughing so hard if your dad was a clown. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2007, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-come-on-who-hasnt-secretly-wanted-to-do-this/393145/32 "2007-02-22T23:15:15Z")
Not that mine is, just sayin’… Signs you may have hired the wrong clown: -Clown car starts by breathalyzer. -Starts routine off with “A little song, a little dance, and little seltzer in my scotch.” -Animal balloons are all lubricated. -One of your guests shoots him. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2007, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-come-on-who-hasnt-secretly-wanted-to-do-this/393145/33 "2007-02-23T03:08:54Z")
NO, NO, NO! If you want to kill the circus, go for the juggler! ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2007, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-come-on-who-hasnt-secretly-wanted-to-do-this/393145/34 "2007-02-23T14:53:56Z")
[QUOTE=AskNott] NO, NO, NO! If you want to kill the circus, go for the juggler! [/QUOTE] Wrong. Go for the guy with the Snidely Whiplash mustache and the whip. He’s the ringleader. I mean ringmaster. Ringwraith. I don’t know, just get him! ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2007, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-come-on-who-hasnt-secretly-wanted-to-do-this/393145/35 "2007-02-25T03:54:02Z")
News flash! The perp has been picked up: [http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/02/24/clown.arrests.ap/index.html](http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/02/24/clown.arrests.ap/index.html) On a side note, pardon me for being such a newbie, but how do you get these Web addresses to look like a word that you click on and not a long address? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2007, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-come-on-who-hasnt-secretly-wanted-to-do-this/393145/36 "2007-02-25T04:08:13Z")
Click on the link icon (little pic of earth and a chain) and follow directions. I copy the URL to the clipboard with my mouse and paste it. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2007, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-come-on-who-hasnt-secretly-wanted-to-do-this/393145/37 "2007-02-25T04:21:13Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] Click on the link icon (little pic of earth and a chain) and follow directions. I copy the URL to the clipboard with my mouse and paste it. [/QUOTE] You mean [like this.](http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/02/24/clown.arrests.ap/index.html) Wonderful! Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2007, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-come-on-who-hasnt-secretly-wanted-to-do-this/393145/38 "2007-02-25T04:26:27Z")
[QUOTE=Siam Sam] Wonderful! Thank you. [/QUOTE] I accept PayPal. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2007, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-come-on-who-hasnt-secretly-wanted-to-do-this/393145/39 "2007-02-25T06:55:56Z")
I once knew a clown from Colombia his stage name was Buster the Bumbia (god… what rhymes with Colombia?) he jumped onto stage and was such a big rage that everyone said he went out with a bang Sorry… I really am… that was terrible. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-come-on-who-hasnt-secretly-wanted-to-do-this/393145.md?page=1)