Are you creeped out by something benign..something like clowns? Teletubbies?

[Blue_Kryptonite]

This is positively Cthuloid.

 

[Torm]

I don't mean to sound political but I'm creeped out by Al Gore and John Kerry.

That's not political - I voted for Gore, and I think he's creepy. Just not quite as creepy as his opposition was.

 

[The Grackle]

Balloons scare the hell out of me...

You should check out the trailer for Enduring Love. I'm scared of baloons now.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0375735/trailers

 

[The Sigil]

Original premise is flawed; Teletubbies are not benign; question is invalid.

Seriously, kids shows that treat kids as slightly less intelligent than rocks (e.g,. Teletubbies, Barney, Boobahs) have creeped me out since I was about 2 months old. The 5-hour Nickolodeon Pinwheel episodes were particularly freaky.

My wife will kill me for saying this, but she's afraid of opening the biscuits/rolls-in-a-can that Pilsbury sells at the supermarket. Any time she wants to make them, I have to open them because she freaks when they "pop" open.

--The Sigil

 

[Darth K'Trava]

Not so. I get kinda frantic about the people from the video for "Black Hole Sun" by Soundgarden. They, and the situation described in the song, describe to me an ancient and powerful evil. I think someone in their group was planetouched, and not in a good way, if you get my meaning.

I'm also a little irrational about anything involving nuclear detonations - but that's one case where it may be pretty rational to be a little irrational.

I wouldn't know... I haven't seen the video.

Books and such about nuclear explosions really scared the out of me back in high school.

 

[Darth K'Trava]

Yep. That and the fact that it was about as stable as an old wooden roller-coaster. And the fact that the danged thing seemed to be about ten feet wide. Oh, is that a semi coming my way? [shudder]

Thanks the skies, they blew that bridge up in '93.

I hate any bridge that shakes when at least one semi rolls over it. Even a five lane bridge... which I think shakes the worst when semis roll over it; probably moreso than narrower bridges in the area.

 

[Darth K'Trava]

Teletubbies

Frankly, I was laughing like crazy that time at Dragoncon when a bunch of Klingons ganged up on the purple teletubby and "beat" the living out of him in the middle of the food court.......

 

[Alhazred]

can't sleep - the clowns will eat me... can't sleep - the clowns will eat me

 

[caudor]

can't sleep - the clowns will eat me... can't sleep - the clowns will eat me

Oops..sorry, Alhazred. Here's some soothing poetry to help you sleep

“Like one, that on a lonesome road
Doth walk in fear and dread,
And having once turned round walks on,
And turns no more his head;
Because he knows, a frightful fiend
Doth close behind him tread.”

-Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)

 

[cignus_pfaccari]

Balloons scare the hell out of me, particularly if they might pop. Which made it very distracting at our last game session, when the DM taped balloons to the ceiling fan to celebrate his son's birthday.

One of my best friends is positively phobic about balloons. I've stopped suggesting we go to Hard Times (small chili chain based out of Alexandria, VA) because they almost always have balloons there.

There isn't any one thing that creeps me out, except...one time, on the History Channel, there was something on biowarfare, and they showed a very, very fast shot of someone with smallpox. (shudder)

Brad