Mikefule said:Most clowns do not ride unicycles.
Most of the clowns that I know do. We must mix with different clowns.
Quoted message said:Most unicyclists are not clowns.
I wonder how true that is. A lot of jugglers ride unicycles, to most of
them it's just another prop. Many of them are professional clowns.
There seems always to have been a divide between two communities of
unicyclists, those who regard it as a sport (the majority of posters to
rsu) and those to whom it is just another performance tool. I would
guess that you tend to associate within only the former of those two
communities.
I offer as examples a couple of friends of mine who have never been
sport unicyclists (well, I believe Kev played a few games of hockey
years ago), but are quite definitely unicyclists and professional clowns:
<URL:http://www.topperispink.co.uk/>
<URL:http://www.akardo.co.uk/>
I've worked with both of them as unicycling clowns, BTW. Here's Kev
being one:
<URL:http://www.topperispink.i12.com/photo06.html>
Quoted message said:In
other parts of my life, I am a bit of a street performer, but today, I
am dressed as an athlete, and attempting (with little success) to ride
like one.
What sort of athlete? If you're dressed in typical cycling team kit
then I reckon people could be forgiven for mistaking you for a clown,
unicycle or not ;-)
Quoted message said:So, where does this stereotype come from? I blame the greetings card
industry. Should we picket a card factory?
I've got a really nice postcard on my kitchen wall. It shows a clown
riding a giraffe atop a walking globe, while juggling fire and balancing
a spinning plate on his chin. A child is walking past completely
oblivious to all of this, engrossed in an electronic game. The caption
is: "The Audience".
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