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My clown friend Gary Peare says:

While your thoughts are being filled with images of Felix Adler (the Jell-O clown), take a look at this.

This is a photo of a flower arrangement sent by the folks at Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus for the memorial service this week of Wayne Scott, a former circus clown who for years made all our shoes for us.

It’s an amazing and touching tribute.

Memorial for a Cobbler of Clown Shoes

  • bbonyx

    “Wayne Scott is f***in’ clown shoes”

  • nanuq

    You have to give him credit. There’s a LOT of work involved in making clown shoes. They could have saved on funeral costs by burying him in one.

  • Anonymous

    please call him a shoemaker. Cobbler is someone who is clumsy at their work, a bungler. People who make shoes usually do not like to be called cobblers.

  • Wharf_Pier_Paradox

    “Cordwainers (cobblers being, historically, those that repair shoes)”
    From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoemaker

    And shoemaker clearly refers to astronomy.

  • FoetusNail

    Viadd, thanks for bringing that memory to the surface!

  • elsmiley

    My clown friend
    My little mime
    How you amuse me
    Thank heaven you’re mine

  • Takuan
  • Viadd

    A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants.

    http://www.tv.com/the-mary-tyler-moore-show/chuckles-bites-the-dust/episode/12273/summary.html

  • holtt

    Those are some big ass clownshoes

  • Halloween Jack

    So, when you bend over the open coffin to pay your last respects, does his boutonniere squirt you?

    Sorry, sorry, but had to be asked.