[HN Gopher] Why clowns paint their faces on eggs (2017)
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       Why clowns paint their faces on eggs (2017)
        
       Author : NaOH
       Score  : 21 points
       Date   : 2025-01-06 12:24 UTC (3 days ago)
        
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       | bombcar wrote:
       | I should have known Pratchett's _Hall of Faces_ in the Fools '
       | Guild was based on something real.
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       | https://wiki.lspace.org/Hall_of_Faces
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       | (There's a lot of money to be made in repackaging Britain to be
       | sold to Americans as "high fantasy", btw.)
        
         | wccrawford wrote:
         | 1987 to 1993 isn't a ton of time. It's possible he actually did
         | come up with it himself, and it happened to mirror reality.
         | 
         | The 1946 version of the collection was just someone's hobby.
        
         | ajb wrote:
         | I think he liked doing that, there are so many examples of
         | things that seem made up, but then you find they aren't. Making
         | perfume from whale vomit, for example.
        
           | jauco wrote:
           | My favourite are the wee free men.
           | 
           | They're not pixies, but pictsies. Their accent is a bit
           | Scottish. They seem to have blue colored skin, but actually
           | those are tattoos and they believe they're currently in the
           | afterlife (and must have been really nice persons in their
           | previous actual life because they're convinced they're
           | currently in heaven)
           | 
           | I always found that a bit lame and over the top.
           | 
           | The I learned that in northern england there once lived a
           | keltic clan called the Picts. They were covered in blue
           | tattoos and the kelts famously believed they lived in the
           | afterlife and life was so good they were convinced they lived
           | in heaven.
        
         | notatoad wrote:
         | >There's a lot of money to be made in repackaging Britain to be
         | sold to Americans as "high fantasy", btw.
         | 
         | or at least, there is if you're as good at it as Terry
         | Pratchett was.
        
       | kelseyfrog wrote:
       | I'm reminded deeply of the statues[1] of Internet Archivists who
       | silently wait in the pews[2].
       | 
       | 1. https://www.nualacreed.com/galleries/ceramic-archivists
       | 
       | 2.
       | https://archive.org/details/TheInternetArchivistsFinalCutBoo...
        
       | dvh wrote:
       | Do you like clowns?
        
       | croisillon wrote:
       | As referenced in an Avengers episode:
       | https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0516859/ (season 7 @rwmj)
        
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