"Cram it, clown!" The Urban Legend of Bozo

This is good news. I am glad that Bozo was vindicated here. Sadly, John Wayne Gacy set the cause for clown acceptance back many years. We are all still in recovery from that disaster.

Stephen King didnt help either. Somehow pointy teeth in a clown takes away from the fun look.

Why do you think I ran him over? Uh oh...please note: that is not a confession, just a moment of outrage.

Im uncomfortable around clowns anyway, something genetic I think. One time there was this clown hhired by a crafts fair in whhichh my wife was participating. This clown kept hitting on my wife , so I casually went and asked if there was anything I could do to help "dear" The clown got real, belligerent and , I think the anonimity afforded by his face and costume, gave him a sense of advocacy from the crowd. My wife was getting very uncomfortable so I asked thhe clown to move on and bother somebody else or Id stuff his big shoes up his ass. Thhen the clown tells me that he knows karate and he strikes a pose like Bruce Lee. Thhe picture of this guy in a clown suit with these huge shoes and a karate pose was really funny. We avoided a moment cause I just busted out laughing and hhe was making all kinds of karate poses until he realized that this was , indeed funny, so he departed, honor (aand teeth) intact and he walked around the midway doing karate poses on kids. A new act was born and I was there.
All this because a clown has needs too.

Heh heh...nice clown story, farmerman. Hey, did you try that tea-smoking thing yet? My preference for tea is a good quality Jasmine. Now, back to clowns...this is still my favourite clown joke, courtesy of Jack Handy:

To me, clowns aren't funny. In fact, they're kind of scary. I've wondered where this started and I think it goes back to the time I went to the circus, and a clown killed my dad.

I did thhe tea smoke thhing and I used lapsang, intense . Ive used it in many meats now. (all except ribs-I dont think Id F with ribs, Im the ribmaster here and my family dictates how they want the sauce and crust .
Im going to try other teas and am gonna do another duck in Earl Gray. That bergamot taste plays over in my mind as maybe a not too floral but spicy taste,
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Yeah, Earl Grey should be nice with duck.

I heard the same story when we were living in Los Angeles in the mid 60s. I never talked with anyone who actually saw it themselves, but everyone knew someone who said they had.

In Chicago, a little girl was supposed to have said "oh s##t" and then, "crammit clownie!" This legend circulated in my jr high around 1975 iirc

This one brought a up a little tear. I still remember what fun cav was.

You two were like Abbot and Costello.
Miss you dude.

Somehow I shall always see an "Eat ****" sign every time I see a Ronald McDonald.

That would make Cav proud, farmerman.

I still miss him, too.

Yes.

So do I.

Willard Scott played Bozo and Ronald McDonald in my area, Wash DC.

Yes, my brother and I were watching tv in Cleveland Heights Oh. I believe it was our first summer when we just moved there, so that would have been 1973. It had to be that year or the next, because we weren't in that apartment very long.
Anyway, i remember Bozo asking some sort of question and a little kid saying 'Cram it Clown!'. We were totally blown away! I'm pretty sure they could do 5 second time delay back then, but who would ever think you would need to for a kids show? I have frequently told the story, because I saw it with my own eyes.

In the Chicago version of the show, I remember a skit with Bozo and another clown (Sandy?) that featured a glass of sickly-bright-yellow lemonade. At one point Boze held the glass up and pronounced, "When it comes to lemonade, this is a really great specimen!" The boys in the band guffawed while the kids in the audience stared blankly.

I think elauer is having false memories.