I have a feeling one of you wrote this as a joke.
Norfolk, Va.: Massive anti-waste, anti-corruption, anti-government-bloat Tea Parties scheduled for April 15 — tax day. Will The Washington Post cover them?
Note: you trot out an investigative crew every time a race-baiting Al Sharpton feels offended or some smelly ACORN hippies protest a patchouli shortage. Do you feel like a hypocrite for ignoring the Tea Parties?
If it’s serious, I still maintain that we should be happy he’s spending his time tea-bagging and writing crazy questions rather than amassing ammo.
jake 4 that 1
When you can no longer tell the spoofs from the goofs, the spoofs have won.
28 Percent
We win! Woohoo! IN YOUR FACE, SPACE COYOTE!
flavortext
Professional trolls trolling professional concern trolls.
gbear
edit: (deleted double post)
Lola
I hope the media covers the tea parties because I bet they will be a massive FAIL. Kind of like the much-hyped Republican budget release.
gbear
I hope the tea party gets some coverage. Alan Keyes is one of the featured speakers.
Carnacki
First they came for the tea, but I drank coffee, so I said nothing…
Then they came for the patchouli, but I never perfumed, so I said nothing…wait a minute, I joined in the mocking so I guess I did say something.
someguy
DougJ – what makes you think asking crazy questions is somehow exclusive from amassing ammo? These are highly talented people we’re talking about here – I suspect most of them are doing both, at least when their days aren’t taken up with trying to walk and chew gum at the same time.
Zifnab
That’s right, we’re going to be bringing double the race-baiting and ten times the patchouli. We want front page freak’n headlines! Goin’ Galt means never having to say, "Thank you, but I’ve really had enough media attention."
Seriously, though. I hope the Post and the Times and the rest of the news media gives these folks all the attention they deserve. They’re working hard to emulate all the loud mouths and nitwits they love to bash. Twenty years from now it might be funny to surf over to a TPM editorial of a future liberal George Will complaining about all the unserious dirty fucking teabaggers cluttering up the conversation.
Steve M.
some smelly ACORN hippies protest a patchouli shortage.
I thought ACORN was supposed to consist of scary Negro thugs. Did they change the talking points while I was asleep?
thomas
if the media covers the tea baggers there will be more reporters than baggers.
Oh, and how are the media supposed to show tea bagging on the tee vee? This should send perkins, dobson etc off teh charts. All part of the dfh-gay conspiracy.
Andrew
This has nothing on the crazy storm that has exploded at RedState, wherein Erick ‘Extra K’ Erickson has declared that Levi Johnston is having 2nd Amendment inspired incest with his sister.
gbear
I’m just waiting for the day when one of the ammo amassers sets his cigarette down in the wrong place. How big a crater can a case or two of bullets make?
Bill Teefy
Please Media Cover Tea Bagging.
FARK has been kind of weak since the day of rapture that was Republican Budget Announcement Day.
Tea Baggers, please include circle diagrams on your signage so I can enjoy a double-high.
AkaDad
I remember a time when Republicans were prudish and now they’re doing daily tea-bagging. The times are-a-changing.
Rommie
I’m just wondering what would happen if the tea-baggers at the tea-bagging protests actually started doing the perverted form of tea-bagging instead of/along with pushing and shoving and etc.
Would that snap the tenuous thread of reality once and for all, as the comedy scale hits infinite?
srv
Not me. But I do have to stop using the patchouli thing.
flounder
I’m going to one of these tea parties. Wouldn’t miss it.
I’m trying to think of a good sign to bring, the best I’ve come up for so far is:
HONK FOR OFFSHORE TAX HAVENS
Anyone got a sign idea for me?
El Cid
We need to make an online ‘game’ whereby people can make small donations to ACORN every time one of these righties cry about them. Say, $5 a pop.
Rainy
Haha. I love Paul Kane’s reply. He should have said, stop being a douchebag.
Janna
@El Cid: I don’t have that kind of money. They whine a LOT.
** Atanarjuat **
Careful what you wish for, liberals.
If the mainstream media cover all the tea parties in a national, comprehensive manner, it will very likely elevate — and therefore legitimize — the tea party phenomenon to a degree that most of you may end up regretting.
The Alan Keyes thing is simply a sideshow. You should be carefully noting what the other currently serving Congressional Representatives will be saying in all the other April 15th tea party events. They’re not there to waste their time or to supply snarky Fark headlines, that’s for sure.
-A
smiley
I think some of these gatherings are going to be pretty large. However, I can’t help to think that they’d be even larger if there weren’t so damn many of them. There’s actually going to be one in my town hosted by a local right-wing radio host. Why drive to D.C. if all you have to do to get your tea bagging on is drive down to the local burger joint?
Stooleo
I guess that not just anyone gets an invitation to these tea party things..
Comrade javafascist
@flounder: "Going Galt. Thanks for your spare change"
Corner Stone
@Rommie
Since these whole "tea bag" shenanigans started I’ve had recurring images of the South Park episode where the "Goobacks" came from the future and "Took our jerbs!"
The answer to the Goobacks? A massive pile of homosexual loving by all the "straight" men in South Park.
Fuckin Classic
This seems to me to be pretty much the same kind of logical response now from the wingers.
John S.
Nothing would give THIS liberal more pleasure than to have the MSM cover the tea-bagging parties with as much zeal as they did Natalie Holloway. Wall to wall coverage of your "movement", complete with Michelle Malkin, Obama = Hitler posters and maybe a few t-shirts with Obama has a communist monkey. Because then everyone can see what a bunch of insane freaks you people really are.
Be careful what YOU wish for, goat fucker.
Corner Stone
And as a P.S. – there’s absolutely nothing "perverted" about teabagging. Ummm, well, I guess it could depend on who’s involved.
Just thought I’d correct the record there.
John S.
Only if you’re a homophobe.
jake 4 that 1
@flounder: via Sadly, No!, this Gotcha! from Mr. ReynoldsWrap should inspire you:
Seriously.
LD50
ACORN is anything the wingnuts need it to be at any given moment.
It’s funny, for years now, the only people who EVER mention patchouli are stuck-on-hating-the-60s wingnuts. I’m sure this is a wonderfully relevant and effective way to recruit people in their 20s to the ranks of wingnuttery.
Corner Stone
@John S
I wasn’t thinking gender, just individuals. Does the thought of someone teabagging Cheney not make you hesitate for a second?
ETA – Plus, gheis….**SHUDDER**
Napoleon
I do not even know what that is and could not care less to know. It’s like the wingnuts only know how to talk to each other.
Bubblegum Tate
To be fair, FARKers can rest on their laurels for a while after that amazing display of raw, uncut awesomeness.
El Cid
Here is the link where you can donate money to ACORN so they can help keep Americans in their homes.
Tsulagi
You got that right. We can only hope that Bachmann talks at length at one of the tea party soirees. Joe/Sam/Whatever the Plumber shouldn’t miss that one. Nor Morans Guy. Maybe he can make signs for the event attendees: We Are All Teabaggers Now!
Rommie
@Corner Stone:
Point taken – how about RTS-style tea-bagging? As a bonus, they can get rifles from the nearest Cache of DOOM and hopping around like bunnies on crack isn’t far off from excitedly waving teabags. Bring the HD cameras, TV people.
LD50
FIFY
Bill Teefy
LD50
I think you have discovered the the truth of the liberal plot.
Guns, Tits, Tea & Ammo web site has link provided by whiteytape397 to actual record of the documents and cache files before they scrubbed their site:
Any Convenient Other-based Republican Nightmare.
Tea Baggers remember…you surround them.
I will be in the bunker on the 15th awaiting short wave radio Truth reports from Bigelow Central.
Don’t fall for those un-American Lipton reports – that’s Nanny-State Tea.
Cris
Both/And
jake 4 that 1
Million Moran March.
That is all.
Brachiator
Thank Heavens we have Republicans and a few Moonbat Crazy Democrats doing all they can to save the rich from the burden of estate taxes (Guarding the Family Fortune).
Trickle down, anyone? However, I would not entirely dismiss these protests out of hand. They give the GOP room to stir up phony outrage.
When Keyes brings his special brand of crazy, it’s not just a sideshow, it’s a whole 3 ring circus of teh stoopid.
Bulworth
After watching the auditions for, and the final product of, the breathless "gathering storm" video of the people scared to bejesus of teh gay, I’m not sure what is parody or the real thing anymore.
The Moar You Know
Can’t wait for Cantor.
DougJ
Well, the minutes he spent composing his question are minutes that he wasn’t buying more ammo, at least.
LD50
Any resident of Wingnuttia can tell you, these things do not contradict each other. After all, Obama is simultaneously a Muslim and does not go to church often enough.
The Moar You Know
@Bulworth: Here’s what scares me – I’m not sure that it matters.
LD50
Just think of all those unemployed Republicans spending all that money on guns and bullets instead of food. Tsk, tsk.
Cris
Don’t they know Bush is already out of office?
Anton Sirius
@flounder:
flounder, you misspelled ‘HAVINS’.
Or, possibly, ‘HAYVUNS’.
Jay in Oregon
…then the Tea Bagging movement will shoot themselves in the foot by intimidating the very people they want to carry their message.
Make sure you stock up on your pepper spray and don’t forget your T-shirt comparing Obama to Hitler.
Shinobi
I don’t know why the Republicans get to have tea parties while the Democrats clean after their 8 year kegger. Worst roommates EVAH.
Cris
Tea is all they’re allowed in rehab.
Shygetz
Wait, there’s a patchouli shortage? Why wasn’t I notified!?!
GSD
Hmm..this tea-bag smells like patchouli.
-GSD
Brick Oven Bill
This post is much better. The New York Times has superior commentators.
qwerty42
Of course, the hard-working folks at Wonkette have some stuff on this. They asked Hill staffers about teabag protests they received. Here is one.
Hob
@LD50:
Them, and also my neighborhood biker bar, which has a sign above the door stating that if you smell like patchouli, you will be thrown out of the bar. I found out they weren’t kidding when a friend of mine got thrown out for that reason. That’s also the only time I was ever aware of someone using that fragrance, and I was like "So that’s what that smells like. Huh, whatever."
wasabi gasp
Stop by if you see a guy holding: Peek Freans are a Very Serious Cookie!
John PM
@Stooleo: #23
Not only does the Chicago Tea Party not want to have Michael Steele speak, they also cannot seem to tell people the correct location. I have seen two addresses in downtown Chicago for the start of the Tea Party: one site has Daley Plaza, while a second site has the Kluzinski Federal Plaza. Since this is a protest against Federal taxation, I would assume the Tea Party would take place at the Federal Plaza, but of course that assumption assumes that the planners know what they are doing.
LD50
The Meskins are coming to take away your guns, Bill.
And there’s nothing you can do about it! HAHAHAHAHAHA!
John S.
Egads!
My beautiful mind wouldn’t allow itself to be sullied with such grotesque thoughts. Thanks a lot.
Fencedude
…and here, I only ever knew "patchouli" as the name of a character from a very obscure Japanese videogame series.
srv
I wish we had a PUMA, Redcoat Brigade and V for Vendetta flash mob. With the new Trek, maybe some Trekkies too. We need a mash up to celebrate this craziness.
Is there any place I can get that giant flying p.3.n.1.s. balloon that Putin’s fanboys flew around at his oppositions campaign speeches?
*crap, once you’re in moderation, apparently you can’t edit yourself out of it
Dennis-SGMM
By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their placards to April’s breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled teabaggers stood
And fired the plop heard round the world.
Comrade Darkness
Finally. For once I am too young for a reference. I assumed this was another word for weed.
Joshua Norton
Uh, Dude. The 60’s called. They want their out-dated, cliche buzz words back.
Rick Taylor
It is frightening to see the Republican party becoming nuttier and nuttier. This is from a letter from the head of the RNC:
We have some nuts on the left of course, but this is the had of the RNC writing a letter to Republicans and telling that Democrats are seeking to corrupt the census to manipulate elections.
gbear
I’ll be sure not to go to that bar after visiting The Electric Fetus record store in Minneapolis (my favorite). Every piece of merchandise in the store smells of patchouli, including the cans and bottles of beverages in the refrigerator case. It’s not a good store for wingnuts.
LD50
See, I told you! ACORN are both hippies reeking of patchouli AND scary Black Panthers.
GSD
Michael Steele apparently wants to see Black folks shot on doorstoops with that kind of despicable shit.
-GSD
srv
Teh Left has been remiss in their technology development.
Why hasn’t someone created the Patchouli Bomb? These could be deployed to disperse a lovely aromatic aerosol at these wingding events.
Bubblegum Tate
This reminds me, I came across what I think is a new wingnutism: Obamallah.
Has this one been out in the wild for a while and I just missed it?
schrodinger's cat
@gbear:
What is patchouli? is it like incense?
Dennis-SGMM
Sssssh! The census bit is a red herring to distract the Republicans from ACORN’s real plan. Even as we speak, invisible ACORN ninjas are diligently sapping and impurifying the Republicans’ precious bodily fluids as well as subtly altering their body chemistry so that their pheromones smell like patchouli.
Ash Can
@John PM: LOL! I can imagine groups of people gathering in both locations, then some of them get on their cell phones to tell their buddies at the other location, and off everyone marches, effectively switching places.
Regardless, though, it doesn’t look like Original Teabagger Rick Santelli will be there — apparently he’s disowned the movement. Maybe he’s confused about the "teabagging" term the movement is using, and is afraid that if he shows up at one of these things he’ll get his manly man self involved in teh icky ghey.
Maus
Exactly, the last block of shooters did both.
Yep, they no longer blow away themselves by accident as the survivalists of the past, these douchebags take out multiple targets.
Delia
@schrodinger’s cat:
It is a flavor of incense. In the 60s it was alleged to cover the scent of pot.
bayville
Paul Kane & Shailagh Murray- Professional Tape Recorders:
From the same chat.
** Atanarjuat **
@Jay in Oregon:
I didn’t know that Hitler used a teleprompter.
-A
Genine
@Delia:
Patchouli can be used in incense, but it is also used as a body oil.
Dennis-SGMM
@Delia:
I was there (Physically, at least) in the 60’s. If patchouli oil covered the smell of pot it was by making you smell like you’d been smoking hashish. AFAIK, patchouli didn’t really catch on until the early 70’s, the same years that you could buy "hippie clothes" at Lord & Taylor and "love beads" at Woolworth’s.
Ed Drone
No, the misspelling is "ofshore."
HTH
Ed
PS — what the hell is patchouli? I think I missed that one.
Glenn
Paul also got it wrong further down, in which he attempted to defend Gates’ defense budget against charges it was cutting the budget by providing an example using numbers implying Gates was cutting the budget.
The blindness of this reporter is amazing
===
You didn’t answer my (Stewart’s) question, though!: I keep hearing the term "budget cuts," but the defense budget isn’t being cut at all. Money is being redirected to other defense priorities, but the overall budget is increasing by 4%. Isn’t that right? So why is it that certain pols are allowed to spout this inane lie with impunity. If they’re angry that certain pet projects are cut, that’s one thing… but they shouldn’t be allowed to spread the falsehood that Obama is cutting the defense budget, when it simply isn’t true.
Paul Kane: The big issue isn’t so much the total dollar value of the cuts, it’s the idea that certain weapons systems are being abolished altogether.
If I spend $100,000 a year, and I spend it on a whole bunch of garbage — CDs from stupid American Idol contestants, trips to Atlantic City, etc. — it’s a whole lot better for me if I reorient my budget to spend my money on a downpayment for a new house at a cutrate deal, as well as Springsteen CDs (instead of Idol folks) and trips of value to see friends and family. I might still spend $96,000, but I’ve spent it a lot more wisely.
That’s what Gates is trying to do.
Joshua Norton
I think it was also a type of body oil, but I thought they stopped making it decades ago. Like Hai Karate.
Dan C
Apparently someone is eager to cover it…
jerry 101
what is patchouli, anyway? I’m 31, I’ve heard the word used, but never understood what it was. I know there’s teh google, but I’m not so interested as to open another browser window to search.
@Flounder:
here’s a sign:
BILLIONAIRES ARE PEOPLE TOO!!!!
or
EAT THE POOR!!!!
or
I GOT TEABAGGED THIS MORNING!!!!
Seriously, what is the deal with these stupid "teabag" parties? I wish I was downtown next Wednesday (I live in Chicago) so I could see this "massive" protest.
I’m guessing about 2 dozen wingnuts show up, plus a few run-of-the-mill conspiracy theorists (the ones who largely defy political identities, such as 9/11 conspiracy theorists, or PETA, or LaRouchies), and some very confused leftists.
Dennis-SGMM
@Joshua Norton:
Patchouli is an essential oil extracted from the leaves of the, wait for it, patchouli plant. It’s still cultivated and it’s still used in perfumes. Back in the day it was sold in tiny bottles and dabbed on the skin.
bago
pwnd.
Heh.
bago
For the not-so-in-touch subversives out there, teabagging really hit the nadir when halo became an internet phenomenon. Because there was a respawn delay, people would repeatedly crouch (teabag) their opponents who they had just bested.
John S.
@ ** Goat Fucker **:
Of course he did! That’s all
ObamaHitler is good at according to you people: Speechifying and reading the Teleprompter.Do try and keep up with the wingnut meme du jour.
MikeJ
Is that a handmaid assigned to Pauly Shore?
and unrelated to that:
Anybody want to set up a social site matching people who make less than $250k/yr who want to give their Obama tax cuts to people making more than $250/yr?
Brick Oven Bill
Atanarjuat raises a good question regarding teleprompters, and I do not believe that Hitler used a teleprompter. In addition to this natural cognitive ability, Hitler could also speak fluent Austrian, in addition to German.
When national leaders engage to the point where they decide they are capable of running entire industries, these are valuable linguistic assets to have. I think that the President could get with The Terminator for some Austrian language lessons, in exchange for all of the taxpayer money.
Fair is fair.
Carnacki
@Dennis-SGMM:
Dennis-SGMM FTW
Fencedude
@Delia:
I was curious, so I went and asked my mother (a DFH of the first order) "what does patchouli smell like?" I asked.
She responded, "Well….it smells like…the 70s"
Ash Can
@Dan C:
Edited for accuracy.
John S.
You wingnuts would have a much easier time branding Obama as a "gaffe machine" if the rest of the world had not just lived through eight years of the biggest fucking moron and mangler of the English language to ever have inhabited the Oval Office.
I think I have misunderestimated your penchant for absurdity.
bago
Wow. How clueless do you have to be to open a post with…
Just curious, what is your reaction to this story?
John Cole
I have different reactions to patchouli. Sometimes, when I smell it, I think “ahh, pachouli” and think of cute hippy chicks in spring dresses with dirty feet and nose piercings.
Other times, I think, “DIRTY FUCKING HIPPIES” and beat a hasty retreat out of wherever I am.
I’m conflicted. It does have a strong smell either way.
wasabi gasp
When I smell patchouli, I think "I ran out of sandalwood."
John PM
@jerry 101: #86
I am trying to round up the liberals in my office to observe the Chicago teabaggers (giggle). I will be the one dressed in the giant acorn suit. Maybe I will bring a video camera to capture the excitement for posterity.
bago
The secret is to sort out the loan officers having a good weekend out from the hippies who actually are broke-ass 20 somethings. The people on weekend, yum.
lib4
I really hope a real reporter challenges one of these mindless morons to explain exactly what they are protesting and why it took a liberal President who has been in office a whole 84 days for them to protest things like big govt (GWB medicare) and govt waste/corruption (Hallitburton, Katrina). Things that certainly exisited before Jan 20, 2009
I would also like to know if these morons who hate big government and the stimulus package are willing to give up their Obama tax cut in order to further reduce the federal deficit. 20 million republican taxpayers (against stimulus) x $500 average tax cut is $10 billion dollars. Let them put their money where their mouth is.
Carnacki
@John Cole:
I had a friendship with benefits with a lovely woman in Maryland in the ’90s who wore it. It always makes me think of good times and dance clubs.
Corner Stone
@Comrade Darkness
I’m with you. i have no clue what patchoolee smells like. Thank FSM.
JK
Tea Baggers = Douchebaggers
Brick Oven Bill
The eerie thing about Obama (Columbia, Harvard liberal arts major) declaring Austrian to be a language, is that the only place you can find the clip is some obscure web-site in Indiana.
Speaking of Indiana, Quayle might be getting money through Obama’s Chrysler bailout as a Cerberus honcho, but at least Quayle had to earn it through the potato masher.
They probably still poke Quayle in the ribs at every meal about potatos. Hey Dan, do you want an ‘e’ with that? In contrast, Obama is being given his lunch for free.
But there are other things that people may want to view when making the big government comparisons between the leadership of German and American National Socialism. First, think about all of the low-middle class jobs that Hitler created. And then, and this is key…
Although both felt a deep respect for Islam, neither bowed down before it, as they both viewed their own native cultures to be equal or superior.
MikeJ
Here in Boeing dominated Washington, I think a sign that might work would be something along the lines of, "Stop government waste: kill the F-22".
Gibbering Idiot from Norfolk, VA
I still maintain that we should be happy he’s spending his time tea-bagging and writing crazy questions rather than amassing ammo.
Hey — it’s not an either/or!
Left Coast Tom
@John S.:
I think he’s an obvious troll. There’s no way anyone seriously writes of anyone being able to "speak fluent Austrian, in addition to German"!
Brian J
Supposedly, there were groans when it was announced that Keyes would be speaking. If that’s accurate, then even the clowns at these protests realize that some of their possible acolytes aren’t doing them any favors. Such a moment of clarity gives me hope that, within the next few years, the grown ups in the Republican party will take back the reigns of power from the current chumps in charge.
les
Patchouli smells like essence of dirt. Only Mother Gaia’s purest, loamiest, naturalest dirt, of course. It’s not so much that it’s a bad smell, but that apparently (at least back in the day) no one who used it (whether oil, incense, perfume, etc.) was ever exposed to the concept of "enough."
eastriver
Tea-begging
Carnacki
@les:
You’re right. It’s such a strong smell that they build a tolerance, if you will, for it quickly so to smell it themselves they end up putting on too much.
** Atanarjuat **
Well, I’m glad that settles it.
If anyone catches a whiff of patchouli at one of the upcoming tea parties, chances are that it’s an Obama True Believer(tm) trying to infiltrate in supposed wingnut disguise, with all the stealth of a retarded ninja (the "Obama = Hitler" t-shirt is a dead giveaway).
Thanks for the helpful advice, liberals.
-A
John S.
Fixed for accuracy (something ** Goat Fucker ** struggles with).
** Atanarjuat **
@John S.:
Hardly, Johnny boy. You went full Godwin right out the gate and have never looked back.
And I’m the one that’s struggling. You’re adorable, you truly are.
At this point, I wouldn’t be at all be surprised if you don one of these supposed "Obama = Hitler" t-shirts and make an ass out of yourself at of these tea parties, just to prove your deranged hypothesis of what kind of people would attend such rallies.
-A
asiangrrlMN
@gbear:
Or for non (right) wingnuts like me who HATE patchouli because I am allergic to everything, and strong scents in particular. Too bad. It’s a great store.
Ash Can
@Brick Oven Bill: Hey BOB, that’s a rich link you have there — the hayseeds at that Hoosier site crab about how ignorant Obama is for referring to the language of Austria as Austrian, and then they go on to refer to Hyde Park as a "posh suburb" of Chicago. Beautiful. And BTW, I’m sure these dumb hicks would blow a gasket the first time they heard a European say that we Americans speak "American." They’d have to get used to it, though, because that’s a common term over there.
John S.
Hey, ** Goat Fucker **, please do try to keep up with reality.
That’s Michelle Malkin smiling for the camera with an adoring fan sporting a sign that says "Obama" with a swastika in the "O".
Or how about this little gem from ConservativeTshirts.com?
It features a picture of Obama next to the slogan "Hitler gave great speeches too."
But I’m sure it’s all a figment of my imagination, right ** Goat Fucker **?
** Atanarjuat **
@John S.:
Well, John-John, you got me there.
Someone posing with Malkin for a photo while holding a homemade sign, and Cafe Press-type product that no one is wearing on the street is proof that conservatives are proudly displaying "Obama = Hitler" shirts in significant numbers.
R-i-i-i-ght.
I suspect, my cabra-obsessed friend, that your fevered brain is working overtime in detecting goosestepping and stiff-armed salutes in anything that’s proposed by conservatives — especially at the upcoming tea parties.
If you’d relax that death-clutch on those pearls of yours, you’d see that the people attending these events are every bit as human and decent as most other people you’ve ever met. You’re getting worked up over nothing, in other words. Tempest in a teapot and all that.
-A
LD50
Tho far less rational.
When they’re not intimidating reporters, at least.
John S.
You really do have this projection thing down to a science.
I mean, only a feverish, tinfoil-hat wearing clown would think that people are trying to infiltrate in supposed wingnut disguise the epic tea party phenomenon.
Oh wait, those are your words. Clown.