*That’s the sound a clown car makes! At least in my mind. Unless I’m in Europe, and then it goes mee-murr, mee-murr, just like most of the emergency vehicles in Europe do.
So while strolling through the internets this past week, looking for clownish topics to torture amuse tempt you all with, I came across this:
And even better, this article from Car and Driver, which is about the physics of clown cars. Seriously! Is that not the awesomest?!? Who knew that Clown Politics, Goofball Mugging, and Relative Hilarity Threshold were all part of the complex equation of just how many clowns can fit into a clown car (or a 2011 Ford Focus).
And just what does this have to do with anything, you ask? Well, I thought it was fun (I’m easily amused) and it relates to CLOWNS, and there is a CLOWN in Stephen King’s IT, which I am (fairly unsuccessfully, if the truth be told) trying to recruit you all to read with us.
However, I’m afraid that all I’ve succeeded in doing this past week is making you all wonder (even more than you already wonder) just how weird I really am. Make me feel better and tell me that you really, really, really want to read IT with me (and Princess Clown Nose @ Reading Thru the Night and Trish @ Love, Laughter, and a Touch of Insanity and Vasilly @ 1330 Thoughts of an Eclectic Reader and Natalie @ Coffee and a Book Chick and Care @ Care’s Online Book Club and Maree @ Just Add Books and Patti @ Peppermint Ph.D. and one of my oldest blogging friends Angela @ avantaknits (not that I’m calling her old…just that I’ve known her since my LJ days) and maybe Ti @ Book Chatter and also maybe Zibilee @ Raging Bibliomania). By golly, we might just have enough people to make up a troupe of clowns! Now all we need is a very small car…
No IT for me (I’m a wimp), but I would love to see how many people could fit in the Hello Kitty Cooper I posted for my Saturday Snapshot
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Glad to see you’re bringing in the clowns. As a funny aside, in the book I just finished, the main character was talking about “fear of clowns.” LOLOL
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SOOOO tempted but given my brain drain as of late I don’t think I’m up to King. All the grossity and whatnot. Enjoy this one!
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Lu is joining too!
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But I am old. Well, older than you.
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As you saw on Twitter today, I have been convinced. But it might be torture! I don’t know. I am already a little scared of clowns after that scary Poltergeist incident with the marionette clown. (Double whammy! Puppets and clowns? Man.) But with everyone else joining in, at least we can all hug each other and keep each other company when we aren’t able to sleep. And, who knows, maybe fit in a clown car?
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Just think of it as goodness being empowered to fight the evil. Really, it is SO GOOD so far! (I’m 20% in on the audio)
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Okay, so I at least put IT on my wish list from Audible. I don’t think I could read the book, but I might be able to listen via audiobook. I’m not making any promises, but I do want to see what all the fuss is. I guess you can count me among your group for the clown car!
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The narrator is REALLY good!
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LOL… I must be tired, at first glance I read that as “abnormal humans stuffed into normally small cars. … which, I kind of like.
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I’ll have to ask my mom tonight when I see her how many people she fit into her bug when she was in high school. I want to say maybe 17?! I don’t see how it’s possible.
WOW!! So many people!!! Lu has mentioned joining and also Diane from Bibliophile by the Sea. If there’s a sign up/info post make sure you girlies tell me so that I can pop by–not doing a whole lot of Google Reading these days. Also, what’s LJ?
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People do the most random things. I, personally, would never want to be squished into a very small car with that many people!
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I am sure this stuffing of people into small cars can be done … but I sure wouldn’t want to be a part of it.
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I do not think you are weird! I do think that we are all incredibly special and I want to give a virtual group hug to all weirdos who want to spend even more time with Stephen King. I’m getting verklempt. 25 people in the modern Mini Cooper?! Wha?!
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If I were ever going to read a book about killer clowns, the IT-along crowd would be the people I’d want to read it with! But I don’t have time for a Stephen King doorstopper right now…and even if I did, it probably wouldn’t be this one. But I have been enjoying your recruiting posts (and I think I might know your friend Angela/Avanta from when I used to hang out in the forums on BookCrossing).
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Considering that’s how I first met Jill, you’re probably right! Hi again. Who were/are you in BC Land?
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