This might strike you as odd

Ok, maybe not odd for me, but I just had a thought. Oh, I know, shocking. Now, it is to be admitted that I am somewhat baised on the subject, considering my despisal of clowns but who was the genius who just suddenly came to the brilliant idea that we should dress a bunch of old guys in weird colorful suits, put them in some big ass shoes and a red nose, and paint their faces so we can't tell who they are? And then decided we were going to let them play with our children.