> > YOU HAVE A FEAR OF CLOWNS TOO?!?!? Actually, mine is a fear of clown dolls, and was brought on by movies such as Poltergeist, but still...
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> > Don "The Monkey'Someone to share my secret pain... Ahhhh...'man" Jackson
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> I don't really *fear* clowns, they just freak me out sometimes. > -fly"would YOU like a nice little balloon giraffe? how cuuuuuuuuute"ing"bleh"cats

I read in the Pop-Up Book of Phobias that the fear of clowns is caused by adults telling kids
not to talk to strangers, and then forcing them to interact with a painted, hollering freak.

I was always scared of dolls. I felt sure that if I looked at them at night, they would turn their pale faces to me and fix me with a glassy and unblinking gaze of death. Every night I would turn my dolls to face the wall, and every day my mother would turn them outwards again. Before I knew that she was the one moving them, I was terrified that they had moved THEMSELVES.

--Jez"New from Mattel:Lizzie Borden Action Figure"zika