Candy colored clowns

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Mark Frauenfelder is the founder of Boing Boing and the editor-in-chief of MAKE and Cool Tools. Twitter: @frauenfelder. Come and hear Mark speak at the ALA conference in Chicago on July 1.

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http://hame.ca/one/ Hamish Grant

can we please get a unicorn chaser on this one…!
- GrantTaylor
  
  This, please! A clown-trampling unicorn!
- Daemonworks
  
  I don’t even like unicorns and I require a unicorn chaser.
Brad H.

All the world loves a clown my ass.
- cfuse
  
  There are two kinds of people in the world: Clowns and those that fear them.
Jake0748

YAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!
http://noctilucent-studios.blogspot.com/ Noctilucent Studios

Oh good, I wasn’t planning on getting any sleep for a week anyway….THANKS!!
Mister44

Well – for me, at least – this beats the hell out of monkeys with doll masks.
- UrbanUndead
  
  And then murderiferizes the monkeys in the basement dungeon, amirite?!
mtdna

Wow! I love these pictures! Where can I buy one?!

Signed,
John Smith
c/o Nebraska State Prison for the Criminally Insane
Editz

#4 looks like Peter Dinklage underneath all that makeup.
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  I thought the same thing.
  - YamaraTheGod
    
    A clown is always a bastard in his father’s eyes.
- kevin casey
  
  Agreed!
- chellberty
  
  That was my first thought but I think it may be one of the oompa loompa from willie wonka and the chocolate factory.
IronEdithKidd

Oh, goody. I get to have nightmares tonight.

Thanks a fucking lot.
http://twitter.com/kpkpkp Kevin Pierce

The topmost (after the jump) bears a striking resemblance to America’s illustrious 43rd Commander in Chief. Follow the link and find *your* elected executive or representative!
- Mister44
  
  Don’t be ridiculous. None of these look anything close to someone in congress. Clearly these clowns have their heads out of their asses.
http://twitter.com/blindeschildpad Blinde Schildpad

Harbingers gonna harbinge.
millie fink

Yes. Yes indeed.

And it’s no surprise at all that David Lynch’s recent CD is called “Crazy Clown Time.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmsrO8xpe-w
leidentech

… they call the sandman
Tiptoes to my room every night
Just to sprinkle stardust and to whisper
Go to sleep. everything is all right.
awjt

I’m facebook friends with Pennywise and every time I unfriend him, he doesn’t disappear.
That_Anonymous_Coward

AHHHHHHHHHHHHH
AHHHHHHHHHHHHH
AHHHHHHHHHHHHH
AHHHHHHHHHHHHH
AHHHHHHHHHHHHH

PUT A WARNING ON THESE THINGS!!!!!
Expect phone calls in the middle of the night Mark when I can’t sleep because I heard a noise and I am sure it it one of these come to steal my soul!!!!!!!!!
willyboy

Just stop!
ROSSINDETROIT

I’d swear #4 is a guy I used to know in the ’80s named Dandy the Clown. He was hilarious and completely fearless.
http://lectiblog.blogspot.com/ lecti

There goes my good night’s sleep.
- Nadreck
  
  You and Bart Simpson.
Halloween Jack

More proof that the natural reaction of a child to a clown is to start crying in fear. After John Wayne Gacy was caught, some professional clowns pointed toward his clown makeup–and specifically his lips, which were done with pointed ends, instead of rounded ends like most clowns; the rounded ends are supposed to be less scary–as some sort of proof that he obviously wasn’t right in the head, but these are way more terrifying.
Paul Bowen

#2 looks like Johnny Rotten. Actually, they all look like Johnny Rotten.
http://www.mrericsir.com MrEricSir

But can any of these clowns rap?
- That_Anonymous_Coward
  
  fing clowns…. how do they work?
Nadreck

Is it true that the agency that manages the trademarks on individual clown faces has a room full of eggs with the faces painted on them?
- not a doktor
  
  Wouldn’t the eggs go rotten? And empty shells seem delicate.
http://twitter.com/MrAaronSwainEsq Aaron Swain

This was an eBay auction? So someone actually owns these pictures now….
viggy

No worse than cat pictures.
pjcamp

Clown A appears to have his hair sewn to his head.
chgoliz

I never understood why so many people have a fear of clowns….until now.
johnnyb

You’re scaring the shit out of me!!!!
benher

Wow, the definition of “Wonderful Things” on this site has certainly been revised for the worse.
http://twitter.com/ducchau99 duc chau

Now it’s dark.
realityhater

Clowns are “F” in scary – my wife and I were “lucky” enough to inherit a collection of clown statues – they currently reside in a box hidden deep in our garage , every once and a while the box is mistakenly opened searching for other items…..it always coincides with a gasp ! I hate CLOWNS and Reality !
TheMudshark

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmsrO8xpe-w
msbpodcast

Clowning is such a sad/serious business. I feel the same way that Terry Prachett feels about them.

That John Wayne Gacy was a clown tells you everything that you need to know about them.