What's A Bigger Cliche: "I Hate Mimes!" Or "I'm Scared Of Clowns!"

This explains the failure of The Centuries to really catch on with the kids.

Clowns, however, are freaking sick. Yes, they're avoidable, but they're still just frightening as fuck.

The April 1, 1995 issue of Datamation featured a column of ridiculous and humorous stories that were clearly April Fool's jokes. (Clear, Crypt News guesses if you're not _too_ asleep at the wheel.) In addition to the virus jokes there is a news brief on the League of Information Systems Professionals or LISP, a "group" working to ensure that "Dilbert" is carried in all local newspapers. LISP is also said to be working for "the reinstatement of the slide rule, especially in belt-mounted leather cases . . ."

If this wasn't sufficiently absurd, consider that the FBI cited
numerous additional Datamation's April Fool's jokes in its national study on computer crime. In addition to joke viruses, the FBI also published news of a government dragnet in which federal agents arrested a dangerously successful hacker gang which victmized mimes.

"The hackers reportedly broke into a NASA computer responsible for controlling the Hubble telescope and are also known to have re-routed telephone calls from the White House to Marcel Marceau University, a miming institute," reads "Trends and Experiences in Computer-Related Crime."

"In one episode, the hackers broke into a NASA computer responsible for controlling the Hubble telescope, aimed the telescope at Earth and then proceeded to spy on a nudist colony near Camden, Maine. In another shocking case, the hackers rerouted telephone calls from the White House to Marcel Marceau University, an institution for mimes, based in Inabox, Montana," reports Datamation in the April Fool's Day issue.

Marty Moore at Datamation magazine laughed on recollection of the April 1, 1995 issue. "You mean someone published the . . . 'Marcel Marceau University' in a paper? Oh, n-o-o-o-o!"

The original on this is long and not overly concerned with mimes although it is a good example of academic and offical stupidity.

www.soci.niu.edu/~crypt/other/quant.htm

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An interviewer from the Guardian asked him about it when he was on a interview tour of England in February and he fell completely silent. Just waited for the next question. You can get copies of the script on-line though - actual physical shooting scripts off eBay, or digital facsimiles, usually for free

yes I am somewhat obsessed by this

http://www.jerrylewiscomedy.com/film_hardly_working.htm

Of *course* you did

oops

somebody take this vodka away from me b4 things get out of hand

This is part of the reason I find them sinister. I always think they must be very sad creatures, doomed from birth to exist as clowns, never to feel the true warmth and love of a family and relying on public self-harm in order to get laughs - the only type of appreciation they have ever received.

Madchen to thread (and Jonnie I think - who is also a little petrified of clowns) to verify my screaming like a girl and running away when I spotted a clown stacking shelves in Sainsbury's once