If You Can't Take the Clown, Stay Out of the Circus. (Trees And Things)

keta: J.P. Patches, And a Theory

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:13:28 EST

Gawd, I loved his show when I was a kid. Until I saw him on a colour television at a friend's house. I was totally creeped out.

thefadd: Re: I heard of Bozo, but I never saw the show.

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:08:06 EST

apparently, they didn't clean up all the cast about bits, lol...

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/16515352.htm

MayorBob: Re: I heard of Bozo, but I never saw the show.

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 13:47:00 EST

Someone posting false information on wikipedia? Say it isn't so. Yeah, because you know Street's politicial opponents would have had a field day with information like that if it were true. Besides, I think at the time listed for him perfo

thefadd: Re: I heard of Bozo, but I never saw the show.

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 13:24:28 EST

That looks like some wikiality to me. I remember bozo being a total, burly guy with a distinctly middle aged white man's voice. I would have recognized councilman street's voice even at the age of 12.

zyxwvutsr: Re: If You Can't Take the Clown, Stay Out of the C

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:49:29 EST

Coincidently. my childhood experiences with clowns were also at the Shriner's Circus at the Augusta Civic Center. I loved the little cars.

Really, that's all. I have nothing to say.

MayorBob: I heard of Bozo, but I never saw the show.

Thu, 22 Feb 2007 22:24:35 EST

Apparently, Bozo the Clown was a franchise which started in Los Angeles and the rights to use the character were licensed to a variety of Bozos around the nation. The Wikipedia lists the

Lou: Re: Thank God I grew up in more innocent times.

Thu, 22 Feb 2007 22:21:14 EST

Even I have to admit that rodeo clowns are pretty cool. Hell, even one site lists rodeo clown among a short list of turn against clowns? Or was it the the clowns who t

dzetetes: Re: Clown murder

Thu, 22 Feb 2007 20:51:32 EST

Murder is never funny.

Unless you're killing a clown.

dzetetes: Re: Thank God I grew up in more innocent times.

Thu, 22 Feb 2007 20:48:27 EST

Clowns are evil.

Q.E.D.

thefadd: Re: Thank God I grew up in more innocent times.

Thu, 22 Feb 2007 19:37:52 EST

Did you ever watch the bozo the clown show on in Philly during the 80s and 90s? I don't know who that guy was but I watched him every morning before I went to school for awhile.

MayorBob: Thank God I grew up in more innocent times.

Thu, 22 Feb 2007 19:33:23 EST

My childhood memories didn't include Pennywise, Urkel's sociopathic clowns, Homey the Clown, or any member of the Insane Clown Posse. No, my youngest memories were of Emmett Kelly and Clarabell

Steve Urkel: Phantom clowns

Thu, 22 Feb 2007 13:06:23 EST

In 1981 there was a "flap" of phantom clown reports. As Loren Coleman, who first documented this phenomenon notes:

"The phantom clowns sprang up separately around the country without the influence of behavior contagion or the media copycat effect.

nmiguy: Re: Clown murder

Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:20:00 EST

nmiguy: You're a pistol, you're really funny. You're really funny.
Lou: What do you mean I'm funny?
nmiguy: It's funny, you know. It's a good story, it's funny, you're a funny guy.
[laughs]
Lou: what do you mean, you mean the way I talk

Lou: Re: Clown murder

Thu, 22 Feb 2007 11:56:28 EST

Wow...that's pretty harsh. As much as I dislike clowns, to actually kill one in front of people? I would probably wait until the clown was alone before I capped him.

nmiguy: Clown murder

Thu, 22 Feb 2007 11:49:32 EST

Lou, have you been to Columbia recently?