Give a boy a bad name
I read 'Freakonomics' a while back - not a bad light read, but not as good as the reviews made out. Anyway, one of the more interesting pieces of research covered first names, and as a follow up the authors have blogged some anecdotal evidence on Texan felons with 'Wayne' as a middle name. Detail here.
To that list I suppose we should add the Chicago serial killer John Wayne Gacy (and to whom I attribute my mild coulrophobia, because of seeing a photo of him in a clown rig).
I wonder how The Duke would feel about his pseudo namesakes, then again he must have (in character) done a fair amount of unlawful killing and maybe even a spot of horse rustliing.
To that list I suppose we should add the Chicago serial killer John Wayne Gacy (and to whom I attribute my mild coulrophobia, because of seeing a photo of him in a clown rig).
I wonder how The Duke would feel about his pseudo namesakes, then again he must have (in character) done a fair amount of unlawful killing and maybe even a spot of horse rustliing.
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Surely Marion was a complete genleman & never played any social-skills challenged victims of society?
17:25
Ever seen 'The Searchers'?
I've always hated clowns.
With me it isn't so much hatred as deep unease.
Bizarrely enough, if you google clown phobia, it brings up a series of ads for treatment. Erm, is this such a big issue for anyone that they would seek a cure?
Yes, I would concur - a sense of unease when I was a child. But as an adult, I loathe them. They're aggressive, like mimes. But mimes aren't threatening, and I always think that clowns are.
And they are about as funny as cancer.
Peter - I'll take it on trust....
Maybe they're seeking their inner clown.
"Peter - I'll take it on trust...."
Me too.
V - exactly. There's nowt so queer as other people's predilections. And I picked that up from Krafft-Ebing, long before the advent of the net, which just confirmed it.
Returning, ahem, to PG rated comments, I decided I'd not just seen it all, but heard it, when I encountered a Taoist rapper in Boulder. Oy vey.
Not to say mazel tov!
M. le Croydonien
No, I've never visioned the Searchers but I used to have their 1st LP.
2) Surely t-l-m should be permanently in therapy, nicht wahr?
3.10.6
M Suttonien - All Movie Guide reckons it has "taken its place among the greatest Westerns ever made".
T-L-M - Tout Le Monde?
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