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Does anybody else suffer from irrational fear of unthreatening things? I hate gas masks, I only have to see a picture of one and I get the heeby-jeebies.

My partner is scared of those old fashioned hair-dryers, the helmet like ones they still use in some salons, and certain floor lamps and lamp-shades. He refused to view a flat because of a picture of the interior on the internet that showed a huge paper lamp-shade.

I worked with a girl who was afraid of Henry vacuum cleaners, she couldn't explain it, she was simply terrified of them.

― Rumpsy Pumpsy (Rumpie), Thursday, 11 January 2007 11:17 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah but you're upset by people eating ice creams.

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Thursday, 11 January 2007 11:18 (eighteen years ago)

I worked with a girl who was afraid of Henry vacuum cleaners, she couldn't explain it, she was simply terrified of them.

this sounds like my old flatmate. did she mention that she'd ever lived with two total bastards who cut out a pair of boggly eyes and glued them to the flat's electrolux? if so, it's her :)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 11 January 2007 11:33 (eighteen years ago)

My ex-brother-in-law's daughter was scared of his Henry, so when he was training her to spend all night in her own bed he'd leave it in the hall outside her door so she was too scared to leave her bedroom.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 11 January 2007 11:36 (eighteen years ago)

me: i still have a slightly dubious relationship with these. they used to scare the living shit out of me as a (rather feeble and easily scared, i admit) kid:

http://www.satori-5.co.uk/2_mcs/2_fpe/present_situation_p1/local_photos/9b_shed_elec_fire.jpg

http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/images/BTON/250/DCA2165.jpg

xpost: !!!!!

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 11 January 2007 11:38 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, but 3-bar heaters start fires and things. It's perfectly reasonable to be afraid of them.

― The Long Grey And Overcast Tea Time Of The Soul (kate), Thursday, 11 January 2007 11:41 (eighteen years ago)

Sick!!!

― Rumpsy Pumpsy (Rumpie), Thursday, 11 January 2007 11:45 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, but 3-bar heaters start fires and things. It's perfectly reasonable to be afraid of them.

not when they're switched off :/

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 11 January 2007 11:47 (eighteen years ago)

i also used to be freaked out by these.

http://www.brora.org/_wp_generated/wp268f7ac8.jpg

OH, THE IRONY :o

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 11 January 2007 11:58 (eighteen years ago)

Potatoes that have started to sprout give me the willies. And I remember having a conversation with Cabbage, who has no internet access at the moment so I'll mention this on his behalf, about how he can't stand empty rocking chairs. Something about worrying they'll start to rock of their own accord.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 11 January 2007 12:01 (eighteen years ago)

do overhead lights count?

― Ms Misery (MissMiseryTX), Thursday, 11 January 2007 12:01 (eighteen years ago)

lol at rocking chairs

― g00blar (gooblar), Thursday, 11 January 2007 12:04 (eighteen years ago)

GUNS

― teh_kit (g-kit), Thursday, 11 January 2007 12:14 (eighteen years ago)

hypodermic needles.

But not so much as when their just sitting there as when it's time to take a shot. Still, I can't even watch movies of people injecting something - I have to close my eyes or turn away or get skeeved right the fuck out.

― Candy: tastes like chicken, if chicken was a candy. (Austin, Still), Thursday, 11 January 2007 12:17 (eighteen years ago)

I was scared of bracken when I was a kid, when it was all curled up and looked like an alien or something (I'm over it now). I also had a phobia of sticking plasters, my teacher once had to chase me round the classroom to get me to wear one.

― chap (chap), Thursday, 11 January 2007 15:06 (eighteen years ago)

as a kid i was always terrified that someone would get me to have my face painted at children's parties or school fetes. the idea really frightened me.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Thursday, 11 January 2007 15:11 (eighteen years ago)

I HATE face painting! For some reason I get really angry seeing kids done up as tigers for no good reason. Or with a huge butterfly on their face.

That sounds really grinchy but I stand by it.

― Rumpsy Pumpsy (Rumpie), Thursday, 11 January 2007 15:26 (eighteen years ago)

I'm with you on the face painting. And the sound of vacuum cleaners really puts me on edge, because when I was about 3 I was scared I'd be sucked inside.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 11 January 2007 15:31 (eighteen years ago)

I got really anxious searching this…
ihttp://www.framingham.k12.ma.us/mccarthy/gingerbread/ginger1.gif

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Thursday, 11 January 2007 15:36 (eighteen years ago)

i need a drink now to steady my nerves.

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Thursday, 11 January 2007 15:36 (eighteen years ago)

I, for one, welcome our new gingerbread overlords...

― Stone Monkey (Stone Monkey), Thursday, 11 January 2007 15:38 (eighteen years ago)

I have a friend who is terrified of pressure cookers and cotton wool.

― C J (C J), Thursday, 11 January 2007 15:39 (eighteen years ago)

the cotton wool one seems quite common, Mr R clenches his teeth and talks funny when he's near it.....

― Rumpsy Pumpsy (Rumpie), Thursday, 11 January 2007 15:49 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah but you're upset by people eating ice creams.

No wonder, the weather was not unlike today - wet, windy and miserable, added to that it was about eight o clock at night (DARK) and the guy was strolling along a residential street alone eating his cone.

That is not normal behaviour.

― Rumpsy Pumpsy (Rumpie), Thursday, 11 January 2007 15:52 (eighteen years ago)

I've seen way too many of these explode in old movies... I don't want one ever.

http://www.bcit.ca/files/health/foodproc/img/pressure_cooker.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 11 January 2007 16:15 (eighteen years ago)

Gas masks somewhat give me the heebies as well. I guess they look a bit frightening - gimp masks also weird me out in the same vein.

I'm scared of balloons and of corked champagne bottles, for similar reasons: terrifed they'll explode when I'm not expecting it. I've forced myself to get over the champers one, and de-cork bottles myself, but the thought of a balloon potentially popping in my face still skeeves me.

Also get the pressure cooker one, for explosion reasons. Do modern ones even still blow up?

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 12 January 2007 04:28 (eighteen years ago)

a rush of panic goes through my veins everytime the telephone rings. but my sister is scared of ribbons - does that count? i hope she doesnt read this.

― i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Friday, 12 January 2007 04:29 (eighteen years ago)

In the dark: ventriloquist's dummies, farm equipment, anything dead (does that count?)

Lighting-neutral: wrongly-shaped enclosed spaces.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 12 January 2007 04:37 (eighteen years ago)

Balloons! GAH!! Also, the same with the hypodermic needles as Candy:Austin up there. I will never ever be able to watch Pulp Fiction. Just knowing there's a needle makes me want to curl up in the corner and cry.

― Jaq (Jaq), Friday, 12 January 2007 05:22 (eighteen years ago)

Hey Tep :)

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 12 January 2007 05:27 (eighteen years ago)

wet newspaper used to set my teeth on edge. i think im over this now.

― Frogm@n Henry (Frogm@n Henry), Friday, 12 January 2007 05:29 (eighteen years ago)

I don't know how police, fire, and paramedics deal with seeing dead bodies on a day-to-day basis (okay, probably more like week-to-week). I can handle seeing a body at a funeral or visitation, but the thought of one day going down to the park with my dog and seeing a body in the lake sort of freaks me out.

I think about arriving at a crime scene and someone telling me that the body's in a chair in the living room, and just how freaked I'd probably get. A guy I used to work with told me how his uncle died on the couch, and the family came over. Co-worker said they mostly stayed out in the porch, but he would ocassionally glimpse inside and see the man sitting up with his eyes closed and mouth wide open. Yeesh.

Obviously, I don't know how far into a war zone I could get.

I've actually only seen one body outside of the funeral home. A group of us were riding in a van back to camp when we passed two cop cars fortifying a space where a man laid in the street on his stomach. It was pouring down rain, and the cops were barely paying attention to it. I wasn't even close to the thing and it weirded me out.

I know this thread's intended to be a bit more lighthearted than fucking CORPSES, but they are inanimate after all. I mean, jeez, I certainly hope they are. That's another fear. That I'll be looking at a relative in their coffin when all of a sudden THEIR EYES POP OPEN. I think about that every time.

I also don't like having scotch tape on my fingernails. I don't know how those Junior Leaguers at the mall do it every Christmas.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 12 January 2007 05:38 (eighteen years ago)

i found my friend dead from an overdose once. it was just as terrible and frightening and sad and traumatic as you would expect. for about a year afterwards i would compulsively wake sleeping people up just to make sure they were still breathing. death made a nuisance out of me.

― estela (estela), Friday, 12 January 2007 06:01 (eighteen years ago)

taxidermied stuff
empty cornfields
still dark clouds
dentures
rotten fruit
abandoned houses (x199, x399 if they're colonials)
violent graffiti

― remybean (bean), Friday, 12 January 2007 07:03 (eighteen years ago)

I'm still terrified to this day of the interiors of movie theaters when they cut ALL the lights off in preparation for the start of the movie. Every time I go to a movie I hope the motorized curtains have already been pushed back as far as they should be for the presentation, because even if it takes a few short seconds I have to close my eyes tightly shortly before and throughout that transition period. I think it's because movie theaters are so cavernous and thus the effects of a lack of light would be magnified... ? And I'm thinking the interior is an inanimate object, though there are plenty of moving parts therein (all motorized).

― Phoenix Dancing (krushsister), Friday, 12 January 2007 10:45 (eighteen years ago)

OTM.

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Friday, 12 January 2007 11:36 (eighteen years ago)

I'm irrationionally afraid of boats out of water.

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Friday, 12 January 2007 12:41 (eighteen years ago)

Damn, you people are all messed up.

― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Friday, 12 January 2007 13:46 (eighteen years ago)

a rush of panic goes through my veins everytime the telephone rings

Me too. I think this is the primary reason why I loathe the phone.

― Ms Misery (MissMiseryTX), Friday, 12 January 2007 13:52 (eighteen years ago)

I'm 100% with Trayce and M.C on this - champagne corks scare the crap out of me. I'm ok with balloons once they're inflated, but I refuse to blow them up myself because the prospect of one going POP while I'm inflating it is too fucking scary to imagine. Therefore, I don't inflate balloons.

― teh_kit (g-kit), Friday, 12 January 2007 13:54 (eighteen years ago)

I'm also about to subcutaneously insert a needle into someone, and then go draw some blood from someone else. Specific people, of course.
All you people who fear needles have every right to fear needles - it's not a normal exchange. I advise my "clients" to think about something else, or try to engage them in some sort of Q&A while inserting the needle.
Many of my friends who had addictions of the sort that required injection are now sober, and are either phlebotomists, or nurses! I never went down the path of injection drug use, and sometimes I feel like I'm not as good at finding a vein as they are!
I'm pretty good at it - if the client doesn't get too jumpy.
Needles are scary, etc. - getting a blood draw is much scarier than getting an injection.
Off to work I go!

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Friday, 12 January 2007 14:03 (eighteen years ago)

I hate it when I know I need to make a phone call, too. I put it off and put it off until it can't be delayed any longer. Ugh.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 12 January 2007 14:04 (eighteen years ago)

Neurotic basket cases, the lot of you. ;)

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 12 January 2007 14:29 (eighteen years ago)

This kind of goes along with my dead body fears listed above, but I remember going to Showbiz Pizza as a kid and peaking underneath the curtain between The Rock-a-Fire Explosion's performance. Seeing those robotic animals just frozen, standing there motionless while looking straight ahead with eyes wide open freaked me out. Especially the dude on the left who held the puppet.

If I worked at Disneyworld, an amusing prank for my co-workers to pull on me would be to assign me the task of cleaning the presidents after hours in the Hall of Presidents. I'd suck it up because I'm a man and all, and I would go around dusting each of the 42 figures. Then, when I'm standing in the middle of them, one of my prankster co-workers would flip a switch and turn on the performance. As the figures whir to life and begin clicking and blinking at each other, I would dissolve to the ground, gasping for air and suffering seizures.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:17 (eighteen years ago)

The underside of any floating human-made object, be it boat, ship, raft, or buoy, especially when of huge proportions.

Enormous rivers, such as the St. Lawrence or the Hudson, especially if highly polluted.

Suckable plastics, such as pacifiers. (This is more repulsion than fear, actually).

― Collardio Gelatinous (collardio), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:36 (eighteen years ago)

Wow, this is fascinating. I also hate any type of rotten fruit or veg and the potatoes with eyes thing gets me every time. I suppose that's not a very interesting one though.

What about an irriational fear or hatred of a person you do not know? Example - I HATE John Lithgow. I don't really know why but I can't stand the man and really dislike watching him in anything including those godawful campbell's soup commercials. It has nothing to do with acting ability. I just HATE him. I really can't explain it beyond that.

― ENBB (expatrica), Friday, 12 January 2007 18:49 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, it's completely rational to hate John Lithgow. No need for explanation.

http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B00000I8A3.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V38226805_.jpg

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000GH3PWW.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V63898564_.jpg

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 12 January 2007 18:52 (eighteen years ago)

i'd never heard of him until just then, but yeh, now i hate him too.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 12 January 2007 18:55 (eighteen years ago)

I've always been wigged out/repulsed by Emily Watson in this picture:

http://www.jasononline.com/emilywatson/poster-metroland.jpg

... to the extent that I don't want to see her in any movie, ever, even if she were in David Lynch presents Transformer Jedis vs Naked Batgirls: Hey Bill Watch This.

And by what's her name on the cover of Amelie.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 12 January 2007 19:02 (eighteen years ago)

Why is there an ass under the manhole cover and eyes on top of it?

― Adam Beales (Pye Poudre), Friday, 12 January 2007 19:12 (eighteen years ago)

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! My Eyes!

I didn't even know Lithgow sang. That brings this to a whole other level.

― ENBB (expatrica), Friday, 12 January 2007 19:27 (eighteen years ago)

Manny the Manhole Cover and Holey the Hole have been an item for years, seriously. A lot of the rightwing bloggers say it's some kind of gay code, but really they're just best friends and get each other through the tough times and sing songs about it.

― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Friday, 12 January 2007 19:46 (eighteen years ago)

I don't know who could find anything gay about singalong faves like "I Wasn't A Whole Man Until You Covered My Manhole" or "You Never Ask Me If That's My Butt Or My Tongue (That's How I Know You're My Pal) (The Ambiguous Cartooning song)."

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 12 January 2007 19:56 (eighteen years ago)

The Manny and Holey live-action movie turned out kind of weird.

http://www.titan-alu.com/img/ta_redlift.jpg

― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:20 (eighteen years ago)

Well, it was doomed from the moment they decided to abandon voice actors and do it "realistically," with silent protagonists like The Red Balloon and the live-action 101 Dalmatians. I know Mark Hammill really wanted to play Holey.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:24 (eighteen years ago)

I was kinda ehhhh... about Hammill as Holey, but Michael Clark Duncan as Manny had me looking for tickets online six months before the thing opened.

― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:30 (eighteen years ago)

Wil Wheaton has a really great blog entry about auditioning for Manny on the same day Michael Clark Duncan did, and how Duncan still held a grudge from being cropped out of a Star Trek scene where he was playing a Klingon. I don't remember the whole thing, but there was a joke about the word "alacrity," and a lot of stuff about playing the Manny and Holey Gameboy game in order to get into character.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:34 (eighteen years ago)

BTW, I have a boot of Randy Newman's demos for this -- "Anyone Who Puts On Joy Division in a Bar is Queer" is really good, I'll YSI it if you want.

― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:34 (eighteen years ago)

So far I have seven signatures on my petition to get She Wants Revenge to cover that, so yeah, maybe if we spread it around that'll build up some steam.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:39 (eighteen years ago)

hahaha, "Steam," yeah I see what you did there. That's a good one on the demos too; Newman got Denny Lethargy to play on it.

― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:41 (eighteen years ago)

I wonder if there's enough of the Gondry footage to release a DVD, like they did with the Schrader Exorcist prequel. The scene in the steam tunnels (speaking of which) seemed like the kind of thing that must have played much differently in his version -- maybe even a dream sequence, since really we're inside Holey's mind at that point, in a very literal way.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:51 (eighteen years ago)

Scene where Harry Dean Stanton is chipping off calcium deposits and says "what do you think he just remembered then?" chip, chip "first kiss?" chip-chip-chip "when his brother died?" chip-chip "first time he tasted spaghetti sauce?" I lost my shit, really, I had to go out to the lobby and wipe my eyes and try to get it back together.

― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:03 (eighteen years ago)

I'm pretty sure his red baseball cap in that scene is the same one he wore in Paris, Texas, which you have to figure isn't coincidence -- I mean, in between the gags and the sexual tension, the movie is really about alienation and isolation.

Oh wait, you stayed through the credits, right, to catch the kicker at the end?

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:17 (eighteen years ago)

Uh, no, I was kind of having to follow my wife and make sure she wasn't going to drive off without me. She wasn't really happy with the film. Anyway, what happened?

― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:22 (eighteen years ago)

Oh man, that little kid who keeps wandering past throughout the whole movie with the drippy ice cream cone FINALLY drops it when the amnesiac hobo bumps into him (the one whose life Manny saved), and Holey is able to realize his dream of trying ice cream. It was kind of contrived, but it worked.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:41 (eighteen years ago)

It kills me that I missed that. But at least I didn't have to walk 35 miles that night.

― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Friday, 12 January 2007 23:08 (eighteen years ago)

Pash is afraid of shipwrecks

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Friday, 12 January 2007 23:17 (eighteen years ago)

I used to live with a guy who COULD NOT be in the same room as an egg, whatever the circumstances. I remember once we put one on the kitchen table and he jumped on a chair going "aaah! Get it out of here!" The fact that he was incredibly camp made this even funnier.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 12 January 2007 23:18 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.popoholic.com/bigimages/pickles.jpg

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Friday, 12 January 2007 23:30 (eighteen years ago)

http://img55.imageshack.us/img55/1802/youu5zs.jpg

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Friday, 12 January 2007 23:32 (eighteen years ago)

I think there is ample material for several poems in this thread. Someone ought to write one.

― Aimless (Aimless), Saturday, 13 January 2007 03:55 (eighteen years ago)

There once was a manhole from Nantucket.

― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 13 January 2007 03:57 (eighteen years ago)

Google:
Did you mean: Manny the Manhole Cover and Honey the Hole

― patita (patita), Saturday, 13 January 2007 05:00 (eighteen years ago)

That was the porn ripoff, which has a pretty devoted cult following. There was some pretty sick shit in that, but Honey eventually got the ice cream too.

― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 13 January 2007 11:27 (eighteen years ago)

Tep, you scare me. And you know I mean that nicely .

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 13 January 2007 11:37 (eighteen years ago)

I'm not inanimate!

― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 13 January 2007 20:35 (eighteen years ago)

Until you started doing voice posts, you were just a bunch of pixels!

― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 13 January 2007 20:40 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, but I'm a regular Dale Cooper now. Sending my voice across the internet is part of my weekend wakeup routine.

― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 13 January 2007 20:49 (eighteen years ago)

xpost:
Collardio - you are the only person I have ever encountered that shares my fear of "boats out of water". And you described it perfectly!
I can't even imagine seeing, like, a cruise ship in dry dock.

This does not apply to construction of waterborne objects -e.g. I can happily watch a boat being built. it really has to do with those objects being lifted from the water and exposing underbellies. And I'm not afraid of buoys. ever. otherwise, we share a very significant, and unusual, fear.

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Sunday, 14 January 2007 03:00 (eighteen years ago)

I'm not sure this really counts, but when I was reasearching my mixtape on early synth usages in pop music, I kept coming across accounts of childhood terror induced by Screen Gems' the Moogtacular bumpers a.k.a. "the S from Hell" seen after syndicated TV shows like The Monkees or Bewitched.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 14 January 2007 03:37 (eighteen years ago)

I am afraid of carpet stores. or - stores that sell rolled carpets. With no windows.(The stores, that is) (I'm nervous in most warehouse stores...).
I think it tie's in with my fear of the 70's television broadcast signal - the long multicolored stripes with the disembodied voice saying television was going away for the night.
I think I linked the broadcast stripes to rolls of carpets in some grand childhood paranoia fest, and now i am afraid of both.

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Sunday, 14 January 2007 04:17 (eighteen years ago)

Carpet Diem.

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Sunday, 14 January 2007 04:23 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, it's completely rational to hate John Lithgow. No need for explanation.

In the mid-90s I was drving down Canon Dr. in Beverly Hills and John Lithgow darted out from between two parked cars. Damn near ran him over, but apparently he was too involved with his cell phone and Starbucks to pay attention to oncoming traffic.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Sunday, 14 January 2007 05:27 (eighteen years ago)

Dammit. If only you had been a character on "Quantum Leap".

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Sunday, 14 January 2007 05:35 (eighteen years ago)

this kid i know used to be terrified of blenders. not in a phony, put-on 'i hate clowns' kinda way, but as an actual documented phobia. things that sounded like blenders got him running around, and the sight of one would totally cause him to flip his shit.

― indian rope trick (bean), Sunday, 14 January 2007 06:21 (eighteen years ago)

seven years pass...

There's this chapter of a book called BIG SECRETS (or maybe it was BIGGER SECRETS) that goes into excruciating detail of whether or not John Lithgow's eyes extend out of their sockets during Twilight Zone: The Movie.

http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/xPenP6VS-ng/0.jpg

But anyway. That's not why I'm here.

I remember going to Showbiz Pizza as a kid and peaking underneath the curtain between The Rock-a-Fire Explosion's performance. Seeing those robotic animals just frozen, standing there motionless while looking straight ahead with eyes wide open freaked me out. Especially the dude on the left who held the puppet.
If I worked at Disneyworld, an amusing prank for my co-workers to pull on me would be to assign me the task of cleaning the presidents after hours in the Hall of Presidents. I'd suck it up because I'm a man and all, and I would go around dusting each of the 42 figures. Then, when I'm standing in the middle of them, one of my prankster co-workers would flip a switch and turn on the performance. As the figures whir to life and begin clicking and blinking at each other, I would dissolve to the ground, gasping for air and suffering seizures.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, January 12, 2007 11:17 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Maybe this is therapeutic for me to post this, but I can't tell you enough how much goddamm shit I would lose if I walked into a semi-lit room and saw this in the corner.

http://www.kornatica.com/slike/sobe/th_white0.jpg

http://37.media.tumblr.com/ae60884ce6743dab343b8a839821c3f0/tumblr_n5qyxjVXx31tc4mkro1_1280.png

I mean, fuck, speaking of Twilight Zone: The Movie, that about looks like something from the Wish Boy segment.

― pplains, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 02:56 (eleven years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/rjVwLaIl.jpg

― pplains, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 02:59 (eleven years ago)

http://www.thegreenhead.com/imgs/poltergeist-clown-1.jpg

The clown doll from Poltergeist, which for some reason always freaked me out way more in this shot than when it is actually attacking the kid.

― You know something? He *did* say "well, yeah" a lot. (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 03:01 (eleven years ago)

Oh fucking shit, why did I revive this.

― pplains, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 03:10 (eleven years ago)

four months pass...

http://i.imgur.com/P1IO1gw.gif

― pplains, Sunday, 16 November 2014 02:58 (ten years ago)

fear of pizza clowns

― ledriver, Sunday, 16 November 2014 08:58 (ten years ago)

three months pass...

http://i.imgur.com/ZsKL2LE.jpg

http://tinyurl.com/pedfaer

― pplains, Thursday, 19 February 2015 02:01 (ten years ago)

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