Here's a book of clown faces painted onto eggs.In the world of clownery, tradition has long dictated that a clown must never steal another clown's look. To that end, British clowns have developed a system that sits at the exact intersection of twee whimsy and nightmarish menace that makes clowns such an enduring fixture in both children's entertainment and horror movies.
To prevent the theft of a clown's face, members of Clowns International (a UK-based international group) must painstakingly paint their clown faces onto eggs (!), then enter those eggs into the Clown Egg Register (!!), housed in the Wookey Hole Clowns Gallery-Museum in Somerset (!!!), and I swear to god that all of the nouns I just listed actually do exist. [...]
But the book couldn't answer my most burning question, so I did the only reasonable thing I could. I wrote to the book's publisher and demanded to know, What the fuck, British clowns? Or, as I put it in my very professional email, "Is there anyone who can explain to me why ... eggs?"
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Wooky Hole is just down the road from Cheddar Gorge, which is where the cheese gets it's name from.
Terry Pratchett 'borrowed' this idea for the Fool's Guild in his Discworld books. A lot of his more strange ideas were based on real things, often without any eggsageration.
It's Wookiee.
It's real?
https://www.dissolute.com.au/the-avengers-tv-series/series-6/610-look-there-were-these-two-fellers.html
I have this book! Surprisingly satisfying to flip through.
On the shelf with books about con artists and books about security.
Wookey Hole is in a part of England blessed with many funny sounding town names. Check it out:
Evercreech
Shepton Mallet
Chew Magna
Acton Turville
Thickwood
Biddlestone
Chipping Sodbury
Petty France
Pucklechurch
Itchington
Nibley
Cocklake
Dinder
Plot Street
Low Ham
Bawdrip
(Had to fight mightily against spell correct to type those in!)
See also:
Acocks Green, Birmingham
Bell End, Birmingham
Blackdikes, Angus
Brokenwind, Aberdeenshire
Brown Willy, Cornwall
Bullyhole Bottom, Monmouthshire
Catholes, Cumbria
Cockermouth, Cumbria
Cocking, West Sussex
Crotch Crescent, Oxford
Fingringhoe, Essex
Foulness, Essex
Golden Balls, Oxfordshire
Great Cockup and Little Cockup, Lake District
Hole of Horcum, North Yorkshire
Honey Knob Hill
Horneyman, Kent
Inchinnan, Renfrewshire
Inchmore, Aberdeenshire
Lickey End, Worcestershire
Nether Wallop, Hampshire
Penistone, Yorkshire
Pett Bottom, Kent
Piddle River, Dorset
Pratt's Bottom, Bromley
Pump Alley, Middlesex
Ramsbottom, Lancashire
Rimswell, Yorkshire
Sandy Balls, Hampshire
Shingay cum Wendy, Buckinghamshire
Shitterton, Dorset
Stow cum Quy, Cambridgeshire
Thong, Kent
Titty Hill, Sussex
Twatt, Orkney
Twatt, Shetland
Wash Dyke, Norfolk
Weedon Lois, Northampton
Wetwang, Yorkshire
The clown registry is familiar to anyone who watched the old 1960s Avengers series.
Probably an Eggman sonic the hedgehog reference.
After thinking about this for a while, I realized that spacemen with bushy mustaches generally don't try to be funny, so I think the painting-faces-on-eggs thing is probably an EggDerp reference instead. Next I wonder why they would do that.