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Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

The revolution will be supervised.

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A norm that restrains only one side really is not a norm – it is a trap.

Museums are not America’s attic for its racist shit.

You’re just a puppy masquerading as an old coot.

We can’t confuse what’s necessary to win elections with the policies that we want to implement when we do.

Sometimes the world just tells you your cat is here.

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For those in the Green Bay, Wisconsin area please be extra careful: there’s a creepy clown on the loose!

“Creepy Clown” spotted in Green Bay

Green Bay, WI — Neighbors in Green Bay are on edge after seeing a person dressed like a clown by the intersection of Mason and Adams Street around 2 a.m. Tuesday. 

The pictures are going viral on Facebook. The original post has almost 8,000 shares. A Facebook page has also been created to post future sightings of the clown, called Gags – The Green Bay Clown.

Police say they’ve received a few calls about the clown. 

“A person can walk down the sidewalk dressed however they want as long as they’re in a place they legally can be, and they’re not in a place that has a closing time, like a park,” said Captain Kevin Warych with the Green Bay Police Department. 

Police say their options are limited in dealing with the situation. 

I alerted Omnes directly this afternoon, but any other Juicers in Wisconsin may wish to take extra precautions!

Open thread to complain about clowns, people that are scared of clowns, people that torment people that are scared of clowns, or whatever!

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  3. 3.

    AnotherBruce

    I think it’s the ghost of George Halas saying. “What the fuck do you mean, calling it the Lombardi trophy”

  8. 8.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    I’m not surprised clowns are wandering around on foot, the poor things, all their cars are being used by Republicans.

  10. 10.

    Eric

    I went to the rally. Trump must have had a talking-to by his handlers. He read from a script and sounded stiff and awkward for much of it.
    Lots of cheers for torture and discrimination. Not as many boos as I expected when I self identified as a dem.
    Very few non-white faces, except for a group of guys selling “Hillary sucks, but not like Monica” T-shirts.

    Only clown I saw was up on stage with silly hair….

  21. 21.

    qwerty42

    @srv: Sept, few years back I was in Door County with my cousins siting at a bar watching the Packers-Bears game. Being Door County, there were some Chicago fans there too.

  28. 28.

    hovercraft

    @Eric:
    Wow, more power to you. You get to say you saw him before he become the most powerful person on earth. I would never brave it. I’ve lived in the NYC metropolitan area since 1992, and I worked for 5 years five blocks from Trump Tower and have never been in or had the desire to go in, never understood peoples fascination with the clown. The only Trump property I’ve been in is the Grand Hyatt, and only because it is next to Grand Central Station and we always use their bathrooms because they’re cleaner and less crowded. It’s as gaudy as you’d expect.

  31. 31.

    max

    @Mnemosyne: That would be the point. He hates clowns, and yet just can’t stop himself from dressing up as one. It could be a pretty good giallo.

    Yes, but why the black balloons?

    max
    [‘Rosebud.’]

  34. 34.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @max: Assuming it might be me, It could be the whole “black like my heart” thing. If it is someone else, which I strongly suspect due ti the mileage on my car and position of the fuel gauge, I can offer no explanation.

  39. 39.

    seaboogie

    @Omnes Omnibus: WRT the book reading that I did not attend last night – because I am even less social than Cole – the author is a mime and has recently begun making masks of rather grotesque and anonymous humans – which he demo’d on facebook. While watching it – even knowing who was behind the mask – I thought of you, and really understand where you come from.

  42. 42.

    max

    @Omnes Omnibus: Assuming it might be me, It could be the whole “black like my heart” thing. If it is someone else, which I strongly suspect due ti the mileage on my car and position of the fuel gauge, I can offer no explanation.

    I meant Mnemosyne’s character Omnes, not you, dude. I assume you’re asleep by 2am or at least not sober enough to drive.

    (Incidentally, I assume this person’s mode of clothing is meant to be easy to take on and take off. Pull on the overalls, pull the mask over your face and grab the balloons out of the car. At the end of the walk, you let the balloons go, pull off the overalls and the mask. Voila! Back to being a normal human. (‘Where’d he go???’))

    Of course, it could also be Paul Ryan expressing his inner darkness.

    max
    [‘It could happen.’]

  43. 43.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Adam L Silverman: Dear god, you are talking about the Civil War era gun. Well played. It took me a while. For clowns, I see a side-by-side 12-gauge as the way to go. If I had ammo. So sword and knives it must be,

  44. 44.

    Eric

    @hovercraft:
    I didn’t hide my preferences, raised my hand when Trump asked if there were dems in the house ( saw another couple hands up) to mild boos and wore no paraphernalia though. I bought two buttons for my stepfather who collects presidential buttons.
    It was pretty low key, I expected worse, but Green Bay is pretty chill. I probably would have taken more shit if I’d worn a Vikings shirt….

  47. 47.

    Eric

    I got there a little after it started, but I saw only one guy get either thrown out, or maybe just told to STFU. There were no other protesters inside that I saw and he might have been just a noisy pro-Trump jerk. He wasn’t near me and I couldn’t tell what he was yelling. .

  48. 48.

    Mnemosyne

    @max:

    Filled with poison, or at least poisoned helium. It’s a giallo, so people have to be murdered in creatively gruesome ways.

    And Omnes wouldn’t even know he was the one doing it, he would just keep having nightmares about murderous clowns until it all came out under hypnosis. That, or there would be a last-second reveal that it was his twin sister the whole time …

  51. 51.

    max

    @Omnes Omnibus: You should assume nothing.

    Fine, I’d suspect a guy freaked out by clowns would not dress up as one to walk around at night.

    max
    [‘I have millions of other suspects!’]

  53. 53.

    max

    @Mnemosyne: And Omnes wouldn’t even know he was the one doing it, he would just keep having nightmares about murderous clowns until it all came out under hypnosis. That, or there would be a last-second reveal that it was his twin sister the whole time …

    The twin sister gag? Mrmmm.

    Filled with poison, or at least poisoned helium. It’s a giallo, so people have to be murdered in creatively gruesome ways.

    Man, everybody does that. What we need here is some truly creepy shit. I’m thinking of say, some ‘Call of Cthulu’-type thing but more mysterious.

    max
    [‘This clown heralds the return of the old gods…’]

  54. 54.

    Mnemosyne

    @max:

    A lot of people don’t realize that American 1980s horror movies were mostly ripped off from Italian gialli (gruesome mysteries) of the 1960s and 1970s. Friday the 13th Part 2 swipes most of the murders from Mario Bava’s Bay of Blood shot for shot.

  56. 56.

    max

    @Mnemosyne: A lot of people don’t realize that American 1980s horror movies were mostly ripped off from Italian gialli (gruesome mysteries) of the 1960s and 1970s. Friday the 13th Part 2 swipes most of the murders from Mario Bava’s Bay of Blood shot for shot.

    I did not know that, but it does not surprise me at all. I swear to God, Reagan got elected and movies promptly took a dive.

    The King in Yellow.

    max
    [‘He must take the balloons and walk at night…’]

  57. 57.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Adam L Silverman: Oddly that is a bit of a hole in my knowledge. i know the Napoleonic guns and the WWI guns, but those between are not in my wheelhouse. P’raps I am too Atlanticist for my own good. The 75 is the only gun that registers for me in the meantime.

  58. 58.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Omnes Omnibus: No worries. It happens to all of us. I know the Civil War guns because I’ve spent a lot of time at Gettysburg and Antietam, and several other Civil War battlefields.

  61. 61.

    seaboogie

    @Mnemosyne: Thank you for sharing that. Even though my 21-y-o cat is now deaf, she still meows – maybe she can hear/feel the vibrations within herself. There’s the “I just pooped/peed” declarative one (so that I change her pee-pads), and also a trilling “Hey” when she sees me up and about – just checking in.

  62. 62.

    Mnemosyne

    No one else seems to have come up with the obvious answer to why someone in Green Bay, WI, would dress up as a creepy clown and wander around scaring people:

    Because there’s fuck-all anything else to do after dark in Green Bay, WI.

  63. 63.

    ThresherK (GPad)

    @Mnemosyne: I find horror movies tiresome for the most part. And I adhere to the idea the almost anything good in French (especially songs and movies) are awful when remade in the US.

    So, are the Italian flicks going to tickle me? Hey, I love Italian neo-realism as much as the next guy (who thinks they could still go to film school).

  64. 64.

    Steeplejack

    That picture at the top looks like an Edward Hopper from his little-known “I was taking a lot of acid” period.

  65. 65.

    LAC

    I couldn’t bring myself to click on any pictures or follow this thread last night. Clowns scare me. I still remember a ringling bros commercial back in the day with a zooming in on a clowns face. I ran to my mom in the kitchen. I know it is irrational. And pennywise? Fuggetaboutit! ??

  67. 67.

    max

    @Mnemosyne: Because there’s fuck-all anything else to do after dark in Green Bay, WI.

    What do you say to the dude wearing a clown mask and carrying a black balloon at 2 AM? ‘Cool outfit, dude.’

    max
    [‘Cable TV news puts Donald Trump on all the time – why in fuck’s name would I be scared of a gothy clown.’]

  68. 68.

    Miss Bianca

    You know, I think I’m rather glad I had to go to bed early last night before I saw that picture…

    But I’m getting a sense of deja vu. Haven’t there been scary clowns lurking around other cities, in the not too distant past?

    @Steeplejack: IKR? I was thinking it had a Hopper-esque vibe to it. Maybe crossed with Francis Bacon.

  69. 69.

    Ken

    @Mnemosyne:

    that it was his unborn twin sister the whole time …

    Fixed up a little. Imagine the big reveal, when the shirt comes off – out of the side of his chest protrude one clenched tiny fist and a twisted baby face in clown makeup… Think we can get Tom Savini to do the prosthetic?

    Now all we need is a name for the giallo. Slow Red Tears for a Laughing Clown, perhaps.

  70. 70.

    Ken

    @max:

    I’m thinking of say, some ‘Call of Cthulu’-type thing but more mysterious.

    That’s not a clown, it’s what the tips of the tentacles look like as they poke into our dimension.

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