Seen in Print

[rogruth]

Oh olio.

And clowns..... Yes, there will be clowns....

Oh the horror.
How 'bout something cheerful, happy, pleasant, and joyful which speaks to the glory of life. HHmmm? Hhhhmmmmm?

Murph,

From Rufus?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Oh olio.

And clowns..... Yes, there will be clowns....

Oh the horror.
How 'bout something cheerful, happy, pleasant, and joyful which speaks to the glory of life. HHmmm? Hhhhmmmmm?

Life is pain. Anyone who says differently is selling something.

[rogruth]

I'm close to wanting some of what is being sold.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I'm close to wanting some of what is being sold.

Here's the sale rep........

[webenda]

Oh olio.

And clowns..... Yes, there will be clowns....

Oh the horror.
How 'bout something cheerful, happy, pleasant, and joyful which speaks to the glory of life. HHmmm? Hhhhmmmmm?

Murph, let the macabre Mr. Firefly show his true face(s). You can learn a lot about someone by observing their avatar.

While on the surface, the “clown” seems to be an innocuous effort to play on simple comedic principles of exaggeration–big facial expressions; big hair; big noses; big shoes, all capped by physical buffoonery–it really taps into our most perverse fears. I believe Mr. Firefly sees the irony in clowns.

I once had an elderly Filipino working for me at the gas station, Theo. One of my regular customers worked as a clown for kids parties. First time Theo had the opportunity to wait on the clown, Theo disappeared. I waited on the clown, then went looking for Theo. One of the other employees found him hiding behind the tires in the store room.

Theo explained, in the Philippines there were wild men who painted their faces before going on the kill for enemy heads. Everyone was afraid of them, not knowing who they were out to kill. Unfortunately for the Japanese, these wild men fought on our side during WWII. Beware the clowns when in the Philippines.

Reference: https://youtu.be/dwHlko8X-uw

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Beware the clowns when in the Philippines.

I shall make a note of it.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Once again, we see this forum is a fountain - a fountain of...

[webenda]

Once again, we see this forum is a fountain - a fountain of...

Olio e più, Murph.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

OK. Now. With that settled, let's elevate the conversation to a higher level. let's address the question on nobody's mind:
Is it possible for Kim Kardashian (sp?) to not pose immediately upon spotting a camera lens?
Also, we have the side-bar question of WHAT does that woman DO; thus, WHY is she a "celebrity"?!!!!!!!!!!!! For WHAT? Dancing? No. Acting? No. Singing? No. Playing a musical instrument? Depends?

Quizilly yours,
Doctor No

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Murph, let the macabre Mr. Firefly show his true face(s). You can learn a lot about someone by observing their avatar.

Macabre? Really? In search of...........something...............that I will recognize when found.....a returning echo of a point in time...the past...the future?

While on the surface, the “clown” seems to be an innocuous effort to play on simple comedic principles of exaggeration–big facial expressions; big hair; big noses; big shoes, all capped by physical buffoonery–it really taps into our most perverse fears. I believe Mr. Firefly sees the irony in clowns.

Lon Chaney knew this well - "There is nothing laughable about a clown in the moonlight."

There are more than a few movies and books that set their speculative nature and fear/horror in the realm of a circus or sideshow. Go back to the true class of Tod Browning's "Freaks" for example and see. Stephen King had learned well with Pennywise in "It". And of course Rob Zombie made good use of the clown figure, Capt. Spaulding, and also named the protagonists after the Marx Brother characters. Irony, but also dichotomy of comedy and fear/horror. One w/o the other has no meaning or perspective and that interface space is where "interesting" resides.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Wait. What?

[rogruth]

Booooo!

[robert.]

what about a candy colored clown?
Kim K can hear the snap of a shutter and pose long before she spots the lens. She may not be Sousa but she is famous for blowing and instrument.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Wait. What?

Where? Moving to when?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

With that settled, let's elevate the conversation to a higher level. let's address the question on nobody's mind

For reasons inexplicable, it's seems to be on your mind . She is a long list of artificial. I leave it at that descriptor.

They fill the gap between nowhere and nothing, bu then this is the modern times of tabloids and the like, None of it is real.

If they were ignored, they'd all dry up and blow away into the dust.