"Can we still mock clowns and mimes?" Topic

Clowns are evil, and mimes are kind of pathetic, so can we still mock them, or are they untouchable now too?

They are as evil-smelling s of a French demon. There is a little-known 18th Century British by-law that condemns all street-mimes to public execution through the medium of a sealed glass box placed in the market square, as a warning to all potential crusty-jugglers.

This was also law in the USA until LotSP got them off by citing a loophole in Kuwaiti law that permits licentious displays of street circus-skills.

What about Morris Dancers???

At least the mimes can't answer back

Morris Dancing is ok provided they follow the law that requires the squeezebox-player to sound a long, drawn-out chord, as a warning that Morris is about to be perpetraed and to allow the innocent and sober to retire to a safe distance. Anyone remaining within the blast-radius after that chord only has themselves to blame.

(nod to Terry Pratchett – I bring this up every time my ex-Morris Dancing wife meets up with her old Morris hanky-wavers)

What if it is a vegan mime?

Shouldn't this be a poll suggestion?

No we should not mock them. By writing or speaking of them I believe you can summon more of them into our universe.

Has anyone stopped mocking birds?

It's all very well to mock Morris dancing, but someobody's got to dance to make sure the crops keep growing and the sun keeps coming up and everybody gets lovely long sticks of rhubarb until the age of 109.

All the best,

John.

What if it is a vegan mime?

There are no mimes on Vega. We deported them all to Earth!

Mock the mockers!

Absolutely John and it's all legal provided they give us adequate warning.

(Though no-one has ever explained how exactly you're meant to go gathering nuts in May… September, yes, but May?!)

"That's right," said Eeyore. "Sing. Umty-tiddly, umty-too. Here we go gathering Nuts and May. Enjoy yourself."

Meaning May tree blossoms, you see. But Eeyore may not have been so wise. Some think it refers to pignuts:

"A description of them were needless, for every child knows them. Government and virtues: They are something hot and dry in quality, under the dominion of Venus; they provoke lust exceedingly, and stir up those sports she is mistress of; the seed is excellent good to provoke urine; and so also is the root, but it does not perform it so forcibly as the seed doth. The root being dried and beaten into powder, and the powder being made into an electuary, is a singular remedy for spitting and ing of blood, as the former chesnut was for coughs."

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Allen

Thanks Allen, you are a true Stephen Fry. Thanks for clarfiying that it was Nuts AND May, but it still makes no more sense! The pignut theory is interesting – I've never heard of them, despite living in the country and eating things out of hedges all my life.

Truthfully I was a professional mime in the 80's. Did TV commercials.

Its ok to mock but NO ROCKS!

How did you get out of the glass box?

I did mime in high school. My dance teacher taught me, after deciding it was pointless to try and teach me to dance. She booked me a few paid performances, so I can safely say I have worked professionally as a mime. Mock me! I fear no mime mockers!

here is an attempt to turn clowns into useful members of society:

YouTube link

If a clown trips and falls in the forest and no one is there to laugh at him… is he really a clown?

If a tree falls on a clown… does anyone care?

Clowns and mimes have no basis in science or logic. I think that makes them a religion, and therefore un-mockable.

Mimes are not for mocking. Mimes are for clubbing, preferably with parts of a clown, in a perfect world with parts of a vegan clown.

Where do crusty-jugglers fit into all this? Clubbing them would be no good, as those encrusted dreadlocks are better than any helmet (as the recent 'student' riots proved, sadly). I suggest burning, then locking them in the glass box with the mimes.

Can we lump all manner of carny folk into this as well? They all give me the willies.

Go ahead and mock the carny folk… you'll end up on a tank eating chicken heads and squawking at the rubes.

This whole thread gives me the screaming mimes mimes.
Weaselhoffen.

Q: How do you get a clown out of a swing?

A: Hit it in the face with an ax.

No. YouTube link

Two cannibals were eating a clown. One said "Does this taste funny to you?"

That's what the other clown said.

Brand new minis scan to resurrect this old thread!

Annoying street mimes, ready for circuses, street scenes, and criminal gangs!

And resurrect locked and moribund accounts.

Sad,really.

(Not the minis! Though their expressions say otherwise!)

Well … you have to be careful when making fun of clowns. They are everywhere ! Even on TMP !!!!!!!!!!!

Oh ! It seems I'm underdressed !

That being said, the mascot of my alma mater, YSU. Is "Pete" the Penguin. So we take our Penguins seriously !