It’s Bozology 101: Clowns scare kids

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They’re ‘universally disliked by children,’ British researchers discover... Reuters

LONDON - Bad news for Coco and Blinko — children don't like clowns, and even older kids are scared of them.

That's the finding of a poll of youngsters by researchers from the University of Sheffield who were examining how to improve the decor of hospital children's wards.

The study, reported in the Nursing Standard magazine, found all the 250 patients aged between 4 and 16 they quizzed disliked the use of clowns, with even the older ones finding them scary.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22685723?gt1=10755

[crim son]

1. I KNEW IT!

We all knew it!

[DarkTirade]

2. I just have one thing to say.

DUUUUUUUUUUUUUH!

[Bake]

3. Stephen King's "It" didn't help matters much, either.

My son is terrified of clowns, and has been for years (he's 19, by the way).

And of course there was John Wayne Gacy, who did so much for the image of clowns.

Bake

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4. "It" did it to my kids too...not that they're terrified of clowns but they

certainly have no affinity with them either!

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

5. Oh, wow ...

just

oh. wow.

:cry:

Now I scare little kids.

:cry:

Wait! I'm just a metaphysical bozo, no floppy shoes, no honk-honk nose, no squirting flower on my lapel.

:hi: