Coulrophobia?

[SmithEC]

I learned a new word today. I knew there was a word for this condition, but had occasion to finally look it up.

It is the fear of clowns. It seems kind of funny that someone would be scared of a clown. I guess for some folks, it's not funny at all.


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[SmithEC]

I learned a new word today. I knew there was a word for this condition, but had occasion to finally look it up.

It is the fear of clowns. It seems kind of funny that someone would be scared of a clown. I guess for some folks, it's not funny at all.


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[S. Hammer]

Two cannibals were sitting in a cave eating a clown when one looks at the other and asks, 'Does this taste funny to you?"

 

[sipowicz]

I thought the fear of clowns was Smithwessonforumphobia. BTW, I find clowns creepy....

 

[DrewW]

I don't like clowns at all, when I was in kindergarten my teacher raised the blinds and there was this weird guy dressed in a clown costume just standing outside the window. The teacher called the principal and he went outside and chased the clown away with a baseball bat, every since then clowns have given me the creeps.

 

[Wheelgunner840]

I do not like clowns at all. Not even a little bit!

I had an uncle who was a circus clown. When he died, 20 of his friends came to the funeral.........All in the same car.

 

[ParadiseRoad]

All the world loves a clown...

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[Mickey D]

For the life of me, I can't understand why people don't like or are afraid of clowns.
My grandfather was a Shriners clown for many years. Loved to watch him perform.

 

[Wheelgunner840]

John Gacey was hilarious.

WG840

 

[Tom M]

I have a cousin who has that affliction. He's 40 years old, and will break out in a sweat if he sees a clown, and will change the channel if one is on TV. No reason for it either. Same as folks that are afraid of anything else. Just the way your mind works, I guess.

 

[CelticSire]

 

[red14]

Wg840,

that was hilarious. I loved it! You are like Lenny Bruce, but a little more sarcastic.

CelticSire,

I love it!

 

[Bob R]

I often use a clown analogy when people ask me about open carry.

I explain that I don't like clowns, but they are perfectly legal in WA and therefore by just being there does not warrant alarm. Much like me when I open carry.

bob

 

[Hamden]

I was driving the freeways in Portland Oregon at rush hour. I got stuck in the middle lane behind a slow boxy shaped small van with traffic heavy on both side lanes. After several moments trying to switch lanes, I said to my passenger "I wish this clown would speed up or get out of the way". Seconds later I had a chance to change lanes and pass. As I did I glanced at the slow mover. Holy crap! It WAS a clown. In a clown car. Big red nose on the grill and everything.

 

[rewster]

Anybody who's afraid of clowns won't be hanging around this board

 

[tennexplorer]

Originally posted by sipowicz:
I thought the fear of clowns was Smithwessonforumphobia. BTW, I find clowns creepy....

Must make it hard to go to work.

 

[SmithEC]

Originally posted by DrewW:
I don't like clowns at all, when I was in kindergarten my teacher raised the blinds and there was this weird guy dressed in a clown costume just standing outside the window. The teacher called the principal and he went outside and chased the clown away with a baseball bat, every since then clowns have given me the creeps.

I've thought about this post through the day and have tried to figure out why there would be a clown standing outside a school window.

I think I've decided that maybe your teacher had an agenda of her own. Perhaps in retaliation against a clown who had spurned her advances, she paid an unwitting accomplice to stand outside the window in an effort to turn all kids against all clowns. I'm sure that must be it.

I don't think I could find it in my heart to chase a clown with a baseball bat.


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[Centenniel]

I have never liked being around any clown. Call it a phobia if you will.

 

[greyhawk178]

Originally posted by S. Hammer:
Two cannibals were sitting in a cave eating a clown when one looks at the other and asks, 'Does this taste funny to you?"

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Later, one asks " How ya doin'??" " I'm having a ball" " Well, slow down. You're eating too fast!!"

 

[Jeb Stonewall]

I got to admit ,clowns give me the creeps.
I think it comes from when I was 6 years old and my parents took me to a circus,
And a clown killed my dad.