grodscorp@grods.comChallenging Ant Rogenous
 | Posted by Bron on Monday 16 June 2008, 12:33 am Categories: Brilliant!, Larfs, Television Tags: Tags: clowns, fear, Kramer, phobias, Seinfeld, TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles |
A little while ago, our beloved Ant Rogenous had a spray at people who claim to have a fear of clowns, and what a spray it was.
Full of rage and anger and loathing for the world at large, Ant spat out:
Any time you’re standing around at a party and the topic of phobias comes up, it’s inevitable that at least one person will profess to have, or have had when they were younger, a fear of clowns.
They’re lying.
Ant believes this fibbing affliction can be blamed on an episode from the brilliant Seinfeld:
Until 1992, when the episode The Opera went to air, coulrophobia was a relatively rare phenomenon most people hadn’t even considered. In their desperation to prove how quirky and Kramer-like they were, unimaginative Seinfeld devotees began claiming this phobia en masse as a ready-made point of individual difference.
Ant backs this theory up by using examples such as people suddenly deciding they hate “anchovies on pizzas in the late 1980s — not because they’d ever eaten anchovies and found them unpalatable, but because Michelangelo of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fame didn’t like them.”
I’ve always hated anchovies AND I’ve never seen Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, so I don’t know how Ant can explain that. I still don’t know how he can explain watching Australia’s Next Top Model either, as he freely but gruffly admitted in the same post. But I digress.
He was so convinced that people who dislike or have a fear of clowns must be faking their dislike/fear, that they must be lacking in originality or a sense of humour. Something like that.
However, I now have proof that even the toughest of the tough are frightened of clowns, and it’s got bugger all to do with Seinfeld. However, I do not expect Ant Rogenous to be backing down from his theory anytime soon, stubborn ol’ goathole that he is. Still, it must be posted, this marvellous photo:
