Three questions

[yendi]

[Poll #1122181]

Comments

[feste-sylvain.livejournal.com]

Actually, clowns are scapegoats, parodies of humanity, and deliberate down-trodden caricatures for us to laugh at without guilt. From that perspective, the notion that such scapegoats would resent their treatment indicates an evolution of human respect for all humanity. The fear that the down-trodden would exact revenge is just the dark side of this new-found respect.

Lamont Cranston started the "Kent Allard" myth when too many clues about the identity of the Shadow started to leak. No, I have no cite for this.

[yendi]

You've obviously never seen Killer Klowns from Outer Space, which explains everything you need to know about clowns.

[greektoomey.livejournal.com]

I love that film.

[yendi]

Ditto. Such wonderful cheese.

[allah-sulu.livejournal.com]

Best part is, the name tells you everything you need to know.

Me (flipping channels): "Oh boy, 'Killer Klowns from Outer Space'!"
Random girl: "What's it about?"
Me (speaking slowly): "There are these clowns... from outer space... and they kill people..."

(She wasn't very bright, but I had sex with her anyway (http://theferrett.livejournal.com/1039306.html).)

[allah-sulu.livejournal.com]

The fear that the down-trodden would exact revenge is just the dark side of this new-found respect.

John Wayne Gacy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wayne_Gacy). Ouchy the Clown (http://www.ouchytheclown.com/). And so forth.

[theloriest.livejournal.com]

I never listened to the radio program, but if I remember correctly... in print, Lamont Cranston was an identity that Kent Allard took up as a disguise.

[yendi]

That's correct; in the books, he was Kent, and took on Lamont's identity when the latter went traveling abroad (he convinced Lamont via extortion; The Shadow was not always a nice man).

In the radio show and the movies, he was Lamont, with no mention of Kent.

In the comics, he was Kent when Howard Chaykin wrote him, and unclear in the Denny O'Neill books (he used the Lamont identity, but it might have been a cover).

[asim.livejournal.com]

That's why I chose Lamont; I was first introduced via the Radio Shows, and I think that's the "canonical version", no matter what...

[yendi]

That's why I don't consider there to be a "right" answer. There are two distinct canons, each with a huge fan base.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

My grandfather has his face registered on Clown Alley.

So, given that my grandfather is both a clown and a dentist, I suppose I could see why people might be afraid of him, but I consider clowns and dentists both wonderful people.

[yendi]

Well, he could also be the result of a double negative; clowns and dentists could be horrible individually, but wonderful when mixed together.

Also, Clown Alley? Is that where the Joker's parents were shot?

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

In actuality, a "Clown Alley" is a professional organization of clowns, including registries of each clown's "face" -- their specific pattern of makeup, so that other clowns don't duplicate it.

[muse0fire.livejournal.com]

For question #2 you need the option: "I have no idea - I am an uneducated fool."

(I had no idea - I picked the name that sounded less like an aristocratic fop.)

[yendi]

There are, sadly, many folks who do not consider the pulps to be a part of a well-rounded education in the first place.

But yeah, I probably should have had a "hunh?" option. Alas, no editing of polls on LJ.

[muse0fire.livejournal.com]

many folks who do not consider the pulps to be a part of a well-rounded education

*snort* Philistines.

[yendi]

:-)

[feste-sylvain.livejournal.com]

There are, sadly, many folks who do not consider the pulps to be a part of a well-rounded education in the first place.

Okay: who was the Green Hornet's grandfather?

[yendi]

If you mean great-uncle (with some complications -- I think there's a godson thrown in), it's the Lone Ranger. If you're looking for someone else, I admit to being clueless.

[feste-sylvain.livejournal.com]

I may have gotten messed up by the complications. Yes, that's who I meant.

The important part, of course, is that there was only fifty years separating the adventures of the two, and the publisher (or editor) linked them.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Here's a DIFFICULT one:

What was the worst part of the WB's 2003 "Lone Ranger"?

For me, five years after watching it, the thing which keeps flashing into my head is how goddamned ugly the horse they got for Silver was. The rest of it has mercifully faded, but that horse keeps haunting me.

[the-unnamable.livejournal.com]

Ah, but who is The Spider?

[thelastrobot.livejournal.com]

I as in me or I as in you.

[phantom_wolfboy]

So, in the last question, is the "I" me or you? Cause I'm puzzled.