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blogging, clowns in the asylum, fungal infections, humor, internet culture, killer clowns, search engine terms
“Killer Clowns” happens to be my number one search term this week. Once again, I’d like to thank Google for thinking of me. It would be quite lovely if those algorithms would point people this way who are searching for something more positive than “insane women,” “killer clowns,” and “fungal infections.”
It’s all good. There’s no such thing as bad press, so allow me to try to solve all your problems. First off, if you have an insane woman, I can’t help you. You picked her. Take responsibility! I hope you aren’t the one who made her crazy, but regardless, my advice is to love her. Crazy women need love too and the odds are pretty good you aren’t perfect yourself.
For fungal infections, I am not a doctor. Neither is Google. You should see a doctor and make sure you know what you are dealing with. At our house a solution of apple cider vinegar and water cures and prevents everything except bones sticking out. We have Obamadon’tcare, which is part of the reason I am insane. I really did read all 600 pages of it and I’ve never recovered. That literary masterpiece belongs in the Smithsonian with a Surgeon General’s Warning attached to it.
As to killer clowns yes, quite weird. In the olden days we loved clowns, they were just circus entertainers. Along came author Stephen King, John Wayne Gacy, and some dinking around with the dark things, and now we have killer clowns running around. What can I say, don’t open the door on things you don’t understand. Now we have an entire generation of kids scared to death of clowns and people think the circus in scary.
I was speaking to a woman with some cognitive challenges the other day and she told me she hated clowns. I assumed she thought they were scary, so she surprised me with her answer. She said they had disappointed her. I asked her what she meant and she said, “when I was a little kid, I thought clowns were born that way, like a birth defect. They let me down.”
I didn’t even laugh. There’s something poignant and powerful about a little girl who once had her bubble burst and realized she’d been betrayed and deceived.
“They wear make up and their stupid little noses are made out of rubber,” she told me and than I did laugh because she was just dripping with such resentment and disgust.
“Clowns in the asylum” is simply a term I often use to describe this mad world we’re living in. I’m going to have to remember that some of them “wear make up and their stupid little noses are made out of rubber.” Cheers me up immensely.
L.S. Engler said:
The idea of a clown who actually was born that way is a great concept for a writing prompt…
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insanitybytes22 said:
Well, there you go. Great idea. 🙂
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Linda Lee/@LadyQuixote said:
True story: when my 35-year-old son was in elementary school, he went to the fair and got “weird vibes” from one of the clowns. He told me that particular clown had “evil eyes.”
Several days later, there was a story on the news about one of the clowns at the fair being arrested for murder. My son was positive it was the same clown.
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Elihu said:
Ha! Google is great. So is SIRI. My 5-year old son was playing with the Siri feature the other day and asked if she was Christian or Muslim. Siri responded with something like, “I don’t know. I believe in the separation of spiritual and silicon.” He said to me, “how can she not know?” Haha.
How do you explain artificial intelligence to a 5-year old?
We have Obamadon’tcare at our house too. We practice as much preventative medicine as we can and go to see the doc when necessary.
Thanks for the chuckle, IB. I always enjo your posts!
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Pastor Randy said:
Just goes to show that my generation is the toughest and fiercest generation–I watched Bozo the Clown on TV and laughed at him!
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insanitybytes22 said:
Ha! I love that. The toughest and fiercest indeed 🙂
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Rebecca LuElla Miller said:
Well, we aren’t the greatest, so we have to be something, I guess. 😉
Good ol’ Bozo.
Seriously, I do feel sorry for this generation. This clown thing is just another way we’re robbing them of a joyous and simple way of looking at life: funny looking things are fun–until they turn into killers. Buuhaaaa!!! And now funny looking things are . . . scary or confusing or dangerous. Sad!
Becky
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Julie (aka Cookie) said:
When I was in the classroom, my students would keep a sketch book and submit a weekly assignment always in addition to their usual in class work. Illustrating your greatest fear was often on the the sketch book assignments—I cannot tell you how many clown pictures I got. And as you say, I attribute (blame) a great deal of that to Stephen King and his desire to demonize the most benign things…clowns, dogs, hotels…..
We also had various mask making and sculpting assignments where some gifted student would create an evil clown or some sort of mask or papier mache from some current running horror flick, complete with nails and the odd muffled sound of a chainsaw (no real sounds, but it just seemed like it) forcing me always to remove said piece of “art” from the room as it would send several other students into a traumatic hissy fit, leaving me no choice but to contact the guidance counselor for help (and yes, I really did have to share some sketch books with her due to the disturbing dark nature that was revealed)—-so eventually there came the time that I had so many qualifiers on assignments as to keep things as “safe” and innocuous as possible …leading to a great and grave creative challenge—thanks to those in the “entertainment” world who seem to relish in sharing their psychological troubles with the world, in turn building a small army of now psychologically troubled young followers….as such seems to be continuing and morphing into darker and deeper troubles…
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insanitybytes22 said:
Oh my goodness, I hear you. An entertainment industry that insists on sharing all it’s psychological issues with us, indeed. It really breaks my heart to see kids exposed to all the darker parts of human nature long before they’re equipped to deal with it.
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Julie (aka Cookie) said:
and as they are so dependent as it were on the entertainment industry—it has become a caustic symbiotic relationship
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SandySays1 said:
Google sort of sounds clownish. By the way, is Google part of the Federal Government or the DNC? (TIC)
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seeingdeep1 said:
Very clever. 🙂
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MJThompson said:
We’re all Bozos on this bus! Though most of us try to ignore it. I still haven’t figured out whether its life imitating art, or visa-versa – Ha.
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SLIMJIM said:
Whoah you read 600 pages of Obamacare???
There ought to be a blog award for that…
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