Post by Nats on Oct 6, 2016 22:53:21 GMT
Whats up with this latest craze of dressing as Clowns? Does this mean Mc Donalds Ronald will become an icon of the past. 
I stole this from Stuff
Long before they donned big feet and balloon pants for children's birthday parties, clowns were strictly adult entertainment. As dimwitted drunks, hypersexual hooligans and mischievous miscreants, these court jesters and fools poked fun at Chinese emperors, Roman senators and medieval feudal lords.
Yep, clowns were cultural pranksters long before they morphed into merry fools. They also bore less-than-sterling names such as "stupidus," "scurra" and "moriones" (from which "stupid," "scurrilous" and "moron" are derived).
So why should we be surprised that clowns are back to being creepy? Psychologists, sociologists and anthropologists aren't.
For the past few months, sinister clown sightings have swept through a dozen states, and law enforcement, school administrators, children and adults have had to tamp down irrational fears.
No shock, then, that a study released earlier this year involving an international sample of more than 1,300 people put "clown" at the top of a list of creepiest occupations, ahead of taxidermist, sex shop owner and funeral director. (Oddly, "writer" came in 11th, just ahead of actor, construction worker and computer software engineer
I stole this from Stuff
Long before they donned big feet and balloon pants for children's birthday parties, clowns were strictly adult entertainment. As dimwitted drunks, hypersexual hooligans and mischievous miscreants, these court jesters and fools poked fun at Chinese emperors, Roman senators and medieval feudal lords.
Yep, clowns were cultural pranksters long before they morphed into merry fools. They also bore less-than-sterling names such as "stupidus," "scurra" and "moriones" (from which "stupid," "scurrilous" and "moron" are derived).
So why should we be surprised that clowns are back to being creepy? Psychologists, sociologists and anthropologists aren't.
For the past few months, sinister clown sightings have swept through a dozen states, and law enforcement, school administrators, children and adults have had to tamp down irrational fears.
No shock, then, that a study released earlier this year involving an international sample of more than 1,300 people put "clown" at the top of a list of creepiest occupations, ahead of taxidermist, sex shop owner and funeral director. (Oddly, "writer" came in 11th, just ahead of actor, construction worker and computer software engineer
Like the Smurfs, Wombles etc,
