Once there, a milquetoast clown in a trash can clangs around before taking on two ice giants; a hoop-twirling temptress brings a dog back to life; and a pair of baby storks turn out to be dancing pickpockets.
Instead, on the sidewalk, dodging water balloons, there was a clown.
Because there's a clown panic going on and the clown's only reason for existing is spreading fear and dread.
There was a clown, several of those inflatable things that kids jump around in and hundreds of red, white and blue balloons emblazoned with the National Night Out logo.
The first rejoins, "But I was told that there's a clown in that tent!" For modernizing reformers such as Shukri Ghanem, Libya's major problems are poor management and isolation, and the solutions are better management and global integration.
There was a clown pug, a jester pug, a pumpkin pug, a Pelham K-9 Police pug, a rapper pug wearing a gold chain (his owner described it as bling) and a bumblebee pug.
Plus there is a clown face, a Pinocchio-like lying face with a growing nose, a cowboy, and several "sick" faces like a green nauseated face, a sneezing face, and a drooling face (which looks more sick than salivating).
The news is out: There's a clown shortage.
There was a clown lamp in my room.
"To say there's a clown shortage, it's just false," he said.
