Maybe it’s just they’re creepy looking and they are slapstick and silly, but in a vaugely sinister way. I mean okay, the Keystone Kops and the Three Stooges were slapstick–but when you looked at Larry, Curly, Moe & Shemp you saw their faces, you didn’t see the mask, the illusion. I mean would it be “funny” if the guys in the circus beating each other up and shoving pies in each other’s faces were dressed up like Richard Nixon and George W. Bush?

Okay, well, it would, vaguely, but what about dressed up as famous sufferagettes or Nobel Peace Prize winners?

Also, let me repeat that clowns are just creepy with their multi-colored puffy hair and their white face and their bulbous noses. Plus, I think they’re all secretly hiding claws behind those kid gloves, and teeth like Jaws from James Bond, and they’re like one scary big footed step away from tearing your heart from your chest and making a balloon animal with it!

Okay, so maybe not quite that bad. But still *shudders*

Now, my dear friend Kellie on the other hand thinks clowns are just silly and no one should be afraid of clowns. And just because one clown is evil or half a dozen clowns are evil this doesn’t mean that ALL clowns are evil (she’s wrong of course, but I think that Kellie is used to being wrong.) She does however think that all alligators are evil. They’re scary, with big teeth and big jaws and lots of pounds of bite force, and they jump up out of the water and attack things.

According to Kellie, you cannot trust anything that has that many big teeth on such prominent display.

Now, alligators have a place in the world. They keep swamps from becoming overrun with rodents and the like that would destroy the swampland. What place in the world is there for a clown? We’d have less villains? Less balloon animals?

I don’t know that we’ll ever see eye to eye on the subject. I can’t convince her that alligators have their place… And there’s no way to convince me  that clowns are anything other than unnatural. I’m not one for conspiracy theories, except about rappers penii… and clowns.

But you know, the debates about alligators vs. clowns? More fun than a clown car on fire! (Foamy luv)