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June 20, 2008 |
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A Camper's Clown
FOUND by Michael
in Western Massachusetts
Found on a college campus that was hosting several summer camps.
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jeebus, kid, I already have "issues" with clowns, now this? A sneaky, zombified, murderous clown with insomnia unfettered by the astral plane?
How old do you think the author is??
you should have it carbon tested to find out its age, you may well have found a very early note by John Wayne Gacy.
Ok. That does it. I'm not going to sleep tonight. It just ain't safe.
I once had an inflatable date with all these same qualities, but there was no clowning around with *her*, I tell ya.
Ahahahahaha!!...@ FARMER- You are the funniest!
I'm uncomfortable around clowns, as well. Now, I will always remember this when I see one. :o(
Looks as though I won't be attending our summer Carnival.
Here's a video of him at a birthday party:
http://tinyurl.com/5l7xml
And ... if Pepper tells you to look up "Angry Clown" at urbandictionary.com DON'T DO IT!
When I was in middle school, someone dropped a note in my locker that said "Right now an evil clown is watchiong you and laughing."
I wonder if this note is refering to the same clown.
Clowns, and those freaky monkeys that clap the cymbals. Both of those are evil incarnate.
i'll bet this accompanied a drawing, and the written part of the assignment was to explain what was happening in the drawing and to describe the clown and his personality. my guess as to the age of the author: middle school or early high school. s/he doesn't vary sentence structure and doesn't know that personality isn't explained using infinitives. of course, i'm coming down from a week of correcting exams, so i could be off by a couple grades.
i hope this was neither an assignment for a creative writing camp (good luck with this camper) nor a therapist's patient's first free-draw (scary as hell if so).
The world is much less fun since society demonized clowns. I LOVE clowns! I have known many clowns in my time, from rodeo clowns to birthday party clowns to Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey's Circus clowns, and not a one of 'em was a murderous freak.
I'm sad for you who are terrified of clowns, but ever more sad for your KIDS, who are being indoctrinated, from day one, to believe that clowns are as depicted in this note. Where's the FUN? Why not let 'em have just a little?
This is so amazing, I can't even think of anything to say about it.
I've never understood why so many people are terrified of clowns. The only one that ever freaked me out the slightest bit was the puppet clown that came to life in "Poltergeist."
"IT" anyone? Accckkkk, don't you EVER do this to me again!
oh great... another fledgling serial killer in our midst.
Ditto that jessica.
...and then this writer was tackled, shackled and hauled off to intensive psychotherapy...
The only clown that ever really frightened me was this midget clown (or "little person" clown) that walked around Wendy's during dinner rush making balloon animals for kids. And I wasn't a kid.
It seems fairly obvious that the clown is not at fault here. The "criminal" shot the clown with an evil bullet. That's when the trouble started.
I must now in very truth inform you ALL of this stark reality:
"Right now an evil clown is watchiong you and laughing."
I'm going to go hide somewhere now.
mona - Also 'possums. Very evil.
I wonder if this child's mother ever got to see his creative writing. She better lock her doors at night!
Reminds of when my oldest son wrote a Christmas story for a school project about Santa Claus. He wrote, "My Santa Claus is green with bloody teeth."
Emmett Kelly, Jr and Red Skelton are the only two clowns that don't give me the creeps.
This letter scares the beejeebers out of me. Too many people walking around hiding behind makeup and clothing with monsters on the inside.
And it's not just "clown" makeup and clothing.there are people walking around in suits and ties with monsters on the inside. Walking around in labcoats with monsters on the inside. Walking around in Les Schwab uniform shirts and Dickies with monsters on the inside. Walking around with fresh Merle Norman makeovers, with monsters on the inside.
We need to find the kid who wants to make the 'super sut' so he can save us from the very angry clown.
I think kids watch way too much garbage on tv and movies and video games.
Yuck
What is it about clowns? I don't get it.
People who dress in white robes and big, white pointy hats (which cover their faces and have holes for their eyes) are much scarier to me.
They may wear pantyhose, as well.
This is EXACTLY why I hate clowns!! lol jk But my husband is terrified of clowns!
I wonder who old the boy (person, although it sounds like a boys imagination of killing and zombies girls usually write of ponys and pretty things) is that wrote this, if it was a young boy this writing is excellent, if it was a college guy.... well not so much. But great find either way =)
Oops! Sorry I meant **HOW OLD** =)
Scary!!! My Uncle let me watch Stephen Kings movie IT when I was 7, scarred me for life! I didn't go by any kind of drain for weeks! I hate clowns!!! I will probably have nightmare tonight! :O
Also, leprechauns are scary evil.
I wonder if this is what Steven King's early writing looks like. Perhaps this was the first draft of "It."
@ Lars:
Where is your Real Girl??
Some of the words seem forced in there. I think this is one of those assignments where you HAVE to use your spelling or grammar words in a few sentences or short story.
@ Christina: I agree. If the kids were given a list of vocabulary words or a specific format to use, this child did the job. But it does seem forced, or awkward.
I've worked with 13 year olds who have writing like this, and also have that "out there" horror or sci fi imagination.
i have never liked clowns, was never afraid of them, but even when I was real little, I thought they were fools and had no use for them at all. I got picked by a clown for something at a birthday party, must have been seven years old or so, and pretty much got that message off to the clown. He very rudely replied to the same extent that he had no use for me, and that pretty much made my mind up to this day.
@Gho: F**King brilliant! I'm still laughing after reading all the comments under yours. haha
Would make a great bedtime story the night before going to the circus, if people do that anymore.
no patience for clowns, sounds like you were the life of that birthday party. I wonder how many clowns have nightmares of rude and disrespectful 7 year olds.
The guy(?) in the American Apparel ad has red things on his chest. Zits? ewwwwwwwwwww
Personality is everything.
I want to play Lars' game! This is for Patootie:
My clown is laughing. He is laughing because a flower shot water at him while the clown was entertaining the crowd. He is lovable because he loves people and amuses them. He's amazing because he came out of a little car with 10 of his clown friends. His personality is to entertain people day and night and he never gets tired and he never goes to sleep. Also he will delight you in your dreams.
I love clowns!
@I, too, have a monster.. you're making me think of Billy Idol's song "Devil Inside." No offense, but I think that's a depressing way to look at the world. It may be true, but I reject it. I have learned that i am happier if i don't think about that stuff. Like the torture abuses of detainees in the news lately. Geez I made the mistake of reading that newspaper article before going to bed a couple of nights ago. Ugh, the nightmares.
I never ever found clowns to be scary. If children find them so, it's probably because it's hard to read a clown's true facial expression, an important aspect of communication.
(I think it was INXS.)
when i started reading this, i thought it said his clown was "ungry"... as if it was some clown from London who really needed a sandwich...
FOUND Coincidence of the Day - at this minute I am watching BBC2's general knowledge quiz, QI, which has a 'clown' theme: the first round was about phobias, and Stephen Fry actually told us the Greek word for FEAR OF CLOWNS, although I didn't catch what it was.
Waaahh... I'm not scared of clowns, but weird coincidences are definitely scary.
Now he's giving us a recipe for how to cook woodlice.
Creepy, yet almost poetic. Can we say Serial Killer?
@ drifting: you must not know me. i AM a real girl. i mean a real real girl. not a Real Girl (even if i wanted one, i couldn't afford it; check out BBC's Love Me, Love My Doll).
@ night: my game, my game! brava.
This just isn't ANY clown. This is a ZOMBIE clown. And if it is a zombie clown and clowns wear make-up, how does this kid know its skin was green? What a jerk.
@ Lars
LOL! Ahh no I didn't know you are of the female persuasion, I just recently watched that movie and I thought of it when I saw you. Well.. maybe they'll come out with a sequel... "Lars IS the Real Girl" =)
And WOW I just took a look at the BBC Love Me Love My Doll, WOOOOOOOW! Ummm just WOW!
All I can find to say woooooooow! And not a good wow
Hmmm...female persuasion is my forte.
@Jonathan the Greek word for fear of clowns is
Kolobathristes= one who goes on stilts.
Which is probably where coulrophobia= an irrational fear of clowns; comes from.
Woodlouse Fry Up
Ingredients:
bacon
Eggs
killed woodlice
Mix all ingredients together and fry in hot oil.
Mmmmmmmmmm, one of my favorites.
(For more woodlouse recipies go to:
geocities.com/~gregmck/woodlouse/recipies.htm
"killed woodlice"? I find that it's much better if the woodlice are live when they go into the oil.
Just like all clowns.
I was gonna say the same thing. Don't kill those buggers first, Cubby. You'll find the flavor is superior when they're fresh. And don't even think of substituting head lice! Not the same!
Hey Villin, where ya been? Good to see ya!
can we say....Freak SHOW !!!!
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BYW, Lars and the Real Girl are on my top 10 favorite movies.
BTW
sorry. Too much wine this evening
I don't like clowns because I'm distrustful of anyone of anything that will come up in my face and say "See how fun I am! I am so happy! I'm funny! Aren't you having fun?" It's a natural distrust that if someone is trying really hard to convince you of something the oppposite may be true. Add to that the overly-large red lips, dead white skin...No. I just won't have it.
The only exception I've come across: Grandma the clown from the Big Apple Circus.
@vill in: except clowns taste funny.
Hey Night, thanks for noticing my absence! Hard times.
Tang
You guys are too hard on the clown. If anything, you should be scared of the criminal who shot him with evil bullets.
This reads like one of those "describe your spirit guide" exercises that were so popular in certain areas in the 80's. It's the kid that's angry, not his clown. He's angry because someone in authority made him stop "entertaining the crowd"´--ie being disruptive in school. He is the one who wants to sneak up on people and kill them.
Columbine, anyone?
Someone should put a 24hr watch on this child.
My clown is eviler than your clown.
Does anyone remember the beginning of the original Halloween? Wasn't Michael Myers dressed as a clown when he went on his first murderous rampage?
It's no wonder why so many of us distrust clowns.
ICP ruined everything.