Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for February 21, 2021

If this isn’t the Revenge of the Cursed Punch Doll, I don’t know what is. Woman, you brought this upon yourself.

Pennywise, Annabelle, Chucky. UHHH. Too much horror movies, eh people?

OMC! We get 3, count them THREE charts! And Puck in a clown costume.

Still, I was born long before 1975, and I think clowns are creepy! Do we need an intervention to save the girl?

Killer Klowns from Outer Space

I was born before 1975. I never liked clowns (except for Jimmy Stewart’s Buttons in The Greatest Show on Earth) but I never found them creepy; I was just not into slapstick humour. I liked the animal acts and the trapeze.

Now I know why Emmett Kelly was so sad. Such unwarranted condemnation.

Pucky is such a sweet little clown. Who could be afraid of him?

Better a cloon than a politician.

I was born in 61 and I agree with the man and the woman….:::Shudder::::

“A clown is my friend. A clown will not bite me and throw me in the basement. A clown is not a big spider….”

NO………ROFL just can’t help myself! I was born in 1943, feel pretty neutral towards clowns but can understand potential fear and loathing since I did read “ It” back in the day. You especially have to beware of those “little second hand stores”……. the ghastly items found within may be deadly!

One of the “ good clowns “ was Clarabelle Clown from the Howdy Doody show back in the early 1950s’ How’s that for dating oneself?

Caulrophobia is not all that new. But it has probably increased since all the evil clowns have taken the stage.

To better set off the clown switchplate, put in one of those switches which doubles as a night light – if you can find one with that weird orange neon glow, so much the better!

The Girl looks kinda diabolical in panel 7…

And to think I once had a collection of clown dolls. And I too was born long….loooong before 1975.

“Good morning! What we have in mind is breakfast in bed for 400,000!” If you recognize those words, you might remember the man who spoke them, Hugh Romney, otherwise known as Wavy Gravy. Mr. Gravy was a professional clown, who brought his Hog Farm hippie commune to not only provide free food, but as security. Woodstock security was provided by clowns! They called themselves the “Please Force.” Please do this, please don’t do that. Asked how he would enforce order, Mr. Gravy said he’d use cream pies and seltzer squirters! (He and the Hog Farm are still with us!) Thinking of him and of other clowns who set good examples, like Clarabell in Howdy Doody, I think the Girl has chosen a fine profession.

Totally agree, era has nothing to do with loathing clowns. I’m 71 and they’ve scared the h out of me from forever.

The Girl is at least the second person born since 1975 to not find clowns murderous and terrifying. I rather like them! Even collected them when I was younger!

We had Bob Bell and Roy Brown as Chicago’s version of Bozo (with Cooky the Cook) on WGN. As a child, I remember hoping that Cooky would give Bozo a swift kick in the keister for being so mean to him, but the “Cram it, Clown!” story is an urban legend.

It’s the ‘false face’ that starts people worrying. The smile that doesn’t match the real facial expression… And then there’s the one called Ronald.

Do we count Krusty the Clown? Animated – but still not scary. Sideshow Bob however…. 0_o

My opinion of clowns is more or less indifferent. But I handle Stephen King books a lot and certain ones make me very uncomfortable just looking at them.

Still, I’m getting a lot of giggles from this!

Such DRAMA in panel two!

Is the boy crying because he’s scared or because he’s not getting any attention?

McColl34 – you didn’t say where Tommy’s mass is located. I realize I’m off today’s subject, but, it’s Tommy and I am desperate to know about his condition.

“It” (the miniseries/2 part TV movie) from 1990 would make anyone dislike clowns. That was one scary movie. Pennywise would scare the heck out of anyone. That being said, when Barnum and Bailey Circus was still running and based in nearby Venice, the clowns in that production never scared me when I saw them as a kid though I never was really into the circus as an adult for various reasons, none being the clowns. My daughter definitely does not like clowns, much like Sam from Supernatural…

it’s so true, Georgia! Ohhhh it’s so true, Georgia! Clowns are to be feared! :S Pucky’s two charts in panels 3 and 4 are priceless. :) So my elder sister must love clowns. No wonder my brother and I can never relate to her. ;p

“Shakes the Clown” Bobcat Goldwaith. “Mimes!!!”

Huh, I always thought I was born before 1975. I shall have to have Words with my parents.

I didn’t know that Puck was a tenor. He looks the fine Canio from Pagliacci.

On Scala Radio, Charles Nove played ‘the Entry of the gladiators’ which, when I was a kid, was always used when the clowns came into the circus ring. He drew a scenario in which tough gladiators were striding into the arena in Ancient Rome followed by two clowns in a car that backfired and the doors fell off. He always seems to know then I have a mouthful of tea. Poor Monty cat runs away now when it gets played on the radio.

The most important question is “Are clowns harbingers of doom?” And, of course, they are.

Egads. I can’t sees this. Help.

Was today’s Sundays Fundays cancelled because of this creepy horror?

Best sitcom episode ever….Mary Tyler Moore Show’s “Chuckles Bites the Dust”. Can anyone watch it and not laugh?

Born before 1975 and find clowns creepy. When I was a kid my grandmother decided her life would be easier if I collected something. She chose clowns. Every birthday and Christmas I would get some stuffed or ceramic clown “from a little secondhand store.”

I have seen clowns “in the wild” on three occasions – shopping for makeup in Walmart (which is pretty funny and on brand), a clown couple at the supermarket, and at a Goodwill one who may have been an Irish clown or a leprechaun (and if leprechaun would be my second leprechaun sighting).

My dad clowned for the rodeo bull riders when he wasn’t doing his trick riding gig and also worked with Emmet Kelly so I’m pretty ambivalent to pre-1975 clowns. I do not like post 1975 clowns however. I don’t get ‘scared’, they’re just not clowns I want to know. Except for Puck! Puck in that clown costume is absolutely adorable!

As Puck himself says, “Nope, nope, nope.”

I was a teenager in the 70s. Clowns and carnies, man. Brrr

SUNDAY PUN-DAY FUNDAY and tomorrow is Monday :(

Cole Porter: Be a Clown, or Comden and Green, Make em Laugh?

I’ll Remember Forever,

As a kitten, you see

Mama, Who Was Clever,

Remarking To Me:

If, Kitty, When You’re Grown Up,

You want kibble and treats

I’ve Got Your Future Sewn Up

With the world at your feet

Be A Cloon, Be A Cloon,

All The World Loves A Cloon

Run and jump, make a Thwump!

And you will never be a chump!

Jump on shelves, without care

Have no fear whatever you dare,

If search throughout the pantry and you find all the treats

If you explore down in the basement you’ll be among the elite!

Hide in plain sight along the white walls you’ll never know defeat!

Be a cloon, be a cloon, be a cloon!

It’s funny and sad all at once that clowns have fallen out of favor.Sort of a symbol of our time…

OMC! She is going to try to kill BATMAN.

Once again the cats are the sane ones in the room

Where would you even go to see clowns performing these days? Real clowns, that is, not characters playing clowns in movies. Seems like the traditional circuses are mostly closed.

I never found clowns amusing, but the idea that they’re scary (in general) seems equally odd to me. I am aware of that Stephen King story that people refer to, but never read it.

So it WASN’T the elephants that killed Ringling/Barnum & Bailey! :O

I as so with the woman one this one. Clowns scared me as a child, and creap me out as an adult.

I was born after 1975 and I have no problem with clowns. You people are weird.

Daughter likes Clowns?

Daughter just want’s to be bad?

Does she like practical jokes?

I’m just saying if the son want’s to be Batman, there is going to be tension at family dinners in the future.

No coulrophobia here, thank goodness! (NOT an aversion to brassica oleracea.)

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

Queen Catshepsut the Golden: Everyone seems sad and down these days. I need someone to entertain them.

Lupinium: Never fear, Your Majesty. That is my job.

Elvis-Anum: We need a song to bring cheer.

Puckmosis: I know just the one. Lupinium?

Lupinium: Right!

Make ’em laugh

Make ’em laugh

Don’t you know every cat wants to laugh?

(Elvis-Anum: Maybe not every cat)

My dad said “Do your best to bring purrs”

And laughter opens so many doors!

It may be very fine

To write poetry that’s so sublime

Now you could study music and be quite elite

And you can bake the kibble and give plenty to eat

Then just add a little laughter

And the world’s at your feet

Make ’em laugh

Make ’em laugh

Make ’em laugh

Beatrixia: Seems I heard a song a lot like that a few lines ago.

The Cirque de Soleil clowns are brilliant!

I was born way before 1975 and I hate clowns. They frightened me as a child and I still find them creepy. Nothing funny to me about a clown.

“Killer Klowns From Outer Space” anyone…?

Pucky makes such an adorable clown!

Nothing wrong with a clown. Reading some of these comments makes me wonder if a few people wouldn’t try to burn Ronald McDonald at the stake.

Tell yourself, “It’s only a phase, it’s only a phase”!! show her ponies right away!!

I love real clowns. They are funny, silly, goofy, and allow us to be children again. Why did Hollywood destroy that with scary clown movies.

Here’s some non-clown circus! This is some of my friend Paul’s cyrwheel performances. Amazing! Watch at least one to get the feel for it, then be sure to watch the last one for a laugh.

World Championships open routine: https://youtu.be/OHNx_VbHEfs

World Championships technical routine: https://youtu.be/OEQ8rEJGSn0

2012 Live street performance: https://youtu.be/UsS9Iimj74o

Cyrwheel/cereal artist cute video! https://youtu.be/8-rZzKMgGFE

Even worse than clowns—those tubular flippy-flopper things used by used car dealers and other businesses. I cringe whenever I see one.

Is that clown switch plate a form of Nana’s revenge?

If I remember, besides scary movies it was the fact that serial killer Wayne Gacy wore a clown costume that turned people against them.

I would think that Lupin would like clowns due to the “ensuing chaos.”

I’ve known some clowns! Nice people. And now I’m tempted to ask my youngest sister (born IN 1975) what she thinks.

Born in ‘63 and I think clowns are creepy.

I was born late in ‘89, and I don’t understand why clowns are seen as creepy either. I mean, I get the whole association with horror stories as of late…but I always thought those sort of clowns as more silly and harder to take seriously.

I have a vintage poster with a some cats in clown hats. It’s surprisingly whimsical.

I wear big shoes because I have big feet. I’m tired of kids trying to honk my nose. :)

I think the 70s backlash occurred because we started electing clowns and it was more terrifying than anyone expected. If a new generation can enjoy clowns without electing them, I see great hope for our future.

I was born in ‘70, and still find clowns creepy. Don’t forget dolls, dolls are definitely creepy. I’m more of a stuffed animal kind of person.

IT’s all the rage. And grandchildren should never be Pennywise and pound foolish.

OMC this one made me LOL… clowns?! haven’t thought of them in ages and it’s true, who likes clowns?

I wouldn’t worry about it. What is she, two? She’ll grow out of it. In the meantime, revel in the easy Halloween costumes for the foreseeable future.

Looks like a little " Jokerette there.

I’m from the pre ’75 group and I think clowns are hella creepy!

Back when I was pregnant with my second I had a job delivering balloon bouquets in a clown costume. That very quickly turned into also delivering cakes and performing at parties. My clown persona was Honk Honk T. Clown. I would introduce myself by asking what Smokey the Bear, Conan the Barbarian, and I, Honk Honk the Clown, have in common? We all have the same middle name.

Then a few people (coughStephenKingcoughJohnWayneGacycough) had to go and ruin it for us. I’m not the only clown that lost a job I loved.

When she was about the Girl’s age, my sis (born in ‘58) was afraid of clowns because she thought they might “dint” her. That was after she saw one clown on TV squeeze another clown’s nose, making a long honk that sounded like “DIIIIINT!!! to her. (Around the same time, she was also afraid of queens “because they’ll burn you.” No clue where she picked that up…)

One of my older girlfriends (born in the 40s) is mortally afraid of clowns. They terrify her, even whiteface makeup makes her nervous.

If you grew up in the Puget Sound area, then you would be familiar with J.P. Patches and Gertrude, who were beloved. Scary movies have ruined clowns, but I will always be a Patches Pal. RIP Chris Wedes and Bob Newman.

https://youtu.be/svlHCKDS4L0

No, clowns have ALWAYS been creepy!

Here in Michigan, we just had Art Cervi, the local Bozo the Clown of the ’60s and ’70s, pass away at age 86.

Pucky is cute as a Pierrot clown.And wasn’t it “Clarabelle the COW?” Those MarksAlot pens are tough to wash off kids, as The Girl will find out. I foresee tears, recriminations, and muttered mild cursing …

I once sang “Send in the Clowns” in a middle school variety show. My manager, aka my dad, made me dress up as a clown, white face paint and all. I told him that would not play well with my audience of 6-9th graders, but he insisted. I was right. They laughed when it was not supposed to be funny.

If a clown farts, does it smell funny?

At a clown’s funeral, everybody brought flowers. There wasn’t a dry face in the house. They all came in one car.

My friend works as a clown and doesn’t earn much money so he spends every cent carefully. He goes by Pennywise

Why did the clown get arrested? Man’s laughter

I once took my boys to a parade and we saw a line of Clowns waiting for the porta potty. I said “you can all fit, I’ve seen it before”. My kids were laughing hard but sadly not the clowns.

I had already voted several times by 1975 and I started when the voting age was 21. I hate clowns.

Is this the same woman who likes those creepy gnomes?

Mimes haven’t fared so well post-1975 either.

But that born after even later. And then teach the Man and Woman to ignore It and John Wayne Gacy.

But what if you were born IN 1975? I’m so confused!

I’m not quite fond of clowns, either.

Puck is a super sweet and adorable non-scary clown, but the Girl is definitely creepy in her cloon form!

No clowns. Ugh. My parents got me a Bozo punch down toy. Inflatable, you pushed it down and it popped back up. 4 yrs old and Bozo kept popping up and bopping me in the face every time I pushed it down, often held in place by jerk brother.No monkeys either.

I’m not a big fan of clowns (well, the ones that can do magic, or juggle, or walk on a tight rope or that do something other than looking like a clown are pretty cool!!!). I not really afraid of them. When I was a kid – I found it weird that there were “clowns” changing the way they looked and it might be scary — but that was different than women applying makeup to change their appearance. I was a weird kid.

Just as long as The Girl doesn’t aspire to be one of the Killer Klowns From Outer Space.

Not a fan of sock monkeys either…

I was born before 1975 and always found clowns scary, no matter where I saw them. Maybe, as a child, I didn’t trust the fact that I couldn’t actually see there face? I don’t know but they still creep me out. As for flying monkeys, that’s a name we gave to some co-workers who were a little too willing to push their bosses agenda!

It seems that Georgia just had to release some of her Swan Eaters story ideas!

I love that!

still waiting patiently for the Swan Eaters to resume!

The only thing creepier than a clown is a mime… which is basically a silent, black & white clown.

But Puck Cat as a clown is adorable!

As a person born before 1975, I am Generation Muder-Clown.

Yeah it’s sad how everybody hates clowns now. Just because of a few horror movies and suddenly the happy innocent clowns are out of jobs. :(

Third option: Played Deltarune, Clowns are just Jevil

Last panel she says burn it and so. They do. But the paper still remains. (If you know what i mean).

Puck is too cute!