As most of my friends and family already know, I am not particularly fond of clowns. I won't say that I have Coulrophobia. Clowns don't invoke terror or make me lose sleep at night, but they are definitely something I would place in the creepy category. I think it's mostly the feeling that something disturbing and foreboding is hiding behind all that grease paint. Having said that, it has come to my attention that painting one's face to look clown-like seems as though it might be hazardous to one's health. Not a definite causal relationship, but why chance it?