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Location: Michigan | aren't mimes artists?
if so why is the stereo type that most people hate mimes?
aren't we all just mimes when playing other peoples music?
what kind of artist wants to be hated?
i hope you don't hate me for asking this. :eek:
i am not a mime or much of a guitar player.GWB |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | People don't like mime? Well, some people don't like yours either. Oh...you were talking about those people who do their act without sound? Never mime... |
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Location: South of most, North of few | Can't say. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | I tried to ask one about that once... I got no answer. |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | When a mime gets arrested, do the police bother to tell him he has the right to remain silent? |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | why do people hate mimes???
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Location: closely held secret | I don't have a problem with them... as long as they stay in their little glass box. |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | Overhere , there`s somethun called Value Added Tax , , there are those that are VAT exempt ,.. Postal Sevices ... Newspapers .. Artists .. and , .. Artists are , among others ..: Painters .. Sculptors .. Musicians .. and Mimes !! ..
In FRANCE the Mime-Thing is BIG !! ..
Witness them White-Painted , White-dressed PEOPLE..
.. Not Sure what Yer post implies ..
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| Never gave them much thought but now that you mention it; yeah, I don't like them much - hate would be too strong a word but I'd just as soon not get anywhere near one. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | As a player you aren't a mime as long as there are strings on your guitar.
....and there's really a guitar. |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | Originally posted by fillhixx:
As a player you aren't a mime as long as there are strings on your guitar.
....and there's really a guitar. .. and Yer Fingers actually touch them strings .. |
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Location: SW Washington | People hate Mimes? I was not aware of that...none of the mimes I have known ever said that to me...or anyone else for that matter. |
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| Originally posted by FlicKreno aka Solid Top:
.. and Yer Fingers actually touch them strings ..
Ladies and Gentlemen, please note that at no time do my fingers ever leave my hands. |
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Location: Flahdaw | I can't stand 'em.....they give me the creeps |
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Location: Cincinnati | If you kick a mime in the crotch, will there be a silent scream? |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | I agree with darkbar ... There's something kinda' sick and creepy about them. I don't know what it is, perhaps the movie Clockwork Orange comes to my mind when I see guys acting goofy with their faces painted white? I think it makes me feel uncomfortable when people won't SAY what they feel instead of acting out.
I WOULD like to know the answer to kotadawg's question though. |
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Location: Flahdaw | Originally posted by bvince:
I agree with darkbar ... There's something kinda' sick and creepy about them. I don't know what it is, perhaps the movie Clockwork Orange comes to my mind when I see guys acting goofy with their faces painted white? I think it makes me feel uncomfortable when people won't SAY what they feel instead of acting out.
I WOULD like to know the answer to kotadawg's question though. All we can do is try it and see what happens. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | "Can't say." - Trader Jim
Now that was funny, don't care who you are!
I've heard that a mime is a terrible thing to waste but, whatever.
I believe that Americans dislike Mimes because we want the answer NOW and not some poorly gestured game of charades!
They fall somewhere between a Clown after midnight and Boy George.
Occasionally an artist like Red Skelton, Jackie Gleason or Carol Burnett could pull off a mimed out and endearing skit but that was then... |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | In France there seem to be a lot of mimes. Not so much in the states. I don't think it's hatred; where I live it's more like indifference to the art of mime, though in NYC you'll occassional see street mime that's entertaining, but if you look in their eyes they seem more crazy than your normal busker. |
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Location: closely held secret | I drown them out by putting a blank cassette in my boom box and turning the volume all the way up. |
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Location: Michigan | They are like a persistant itch that you cannot scratch. |
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| Can't say I "hate" them, but for me a little mimery goes a long way. |
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Location: New Hampsha | great mime joke:
One day, a mime is visiting the zoo and attempts to earn some money as a street performer. As soon as he starts to draw a crowd, the zoo keeper grabs him and drags him into his office.
The zoo keeper explains to the mime that the zoo's most popular attraction, a gorilla, died suddenly and the keeper fears that attendance at the zoo will fall off.
He offers the mime a job to dress up as the gorilla until they can get another one. The mime accepts the offer.
So, the next morning, before the crowd arrives, the mime puts on the gorilla suit and enters the cage.
He discovers that it's a great job. He can sleep all he wants, play and make fun of people, and he draws larger crowds than he ever did as a mime on the street.
However, eventually the crowd tires of him, and he tires of just swinging on auto tires. He notices that the people are paying more attention to the lion in the next cage. Not wanting to lose the attention of his audience, he climbs to the top of his cage, crawls across a partition, and dangles from the top of the lion's cage.
Of course, this makes the lion furious, but the crowd loves it. At the end of the day the zoo keeper comes and gives the mime a raise for being such a good attraction.
Well, this goes on for some time, the mime keeps taunting the lion, the crowd grows larger, and his salary keeps going up.
Then, one day, when he is dangling over the top of the lion's cage, he slips and falls. The mime is terrified.
The lion raises himself up and prepares to pounce.
The mime is so scared that he begins to run around the cage with the lion in hot pursuit.
Finally, the mime starts screaming, "Help! Help me!"
The lion is quick and pounces. The mime soon finds him flat on his back looking up at the angry lion. The lion says, "Shut up, you idiot, or we'll both lose our jobs!" |
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Location: On the Coast - Halfway between SF & OR | The street mimes I've encountered always seem to want to get in my face, to invoke a personal reaction, rather than just put on a performance I can watch and potentially enjoy.
I'm sure it's fun for them; I mean I'm a 6'5" 220lb. logger who, no doubt, looks really out of place in the city. I can understand that and laugh at how the interaction must look for other spectators, but only for a bit.
The problem is they always seem to push it too far and I get ticked off. The more I react, the more they push and there ends of being clown white all over the street... |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | ....and there goes another stereotype down the drain.... |
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| Originally posted by fletcher:
...The problem is they always seem to push it too far and I get ticked off. The more I react, the more they push and there ends up being clown white all over the street... LMAO |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | Originally posted by an4340:
see street mime that's entertaining, but if you look in their eyes they seem more crazy than your normal busker. psst AN , " Average Busker " .. normal people do n`t go buskin`.. :) |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Mimes I can take. Its the circus clowns I don't like. |
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Location: Flahdaw | As Shakespeare once wrote, "The first thing we do, let's kill all the mimes." |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | To quote my mime friend: |
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Location: everywhere | They are just too white. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | I don't mind mimes at all. I wish I could turn my wife into one. |
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Location: Chicago | Marcel Marceau played a Taylor, yo. |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | I like mimes... they taste like chicken! |
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Location: Upper Left USA | "Cannibals won't eat Clowns. They say they taste funny."
George Carlin |
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o.t. why do people hate mimes???