Rent-a-clown.com
May 30, 2007
After Whysoserious.com was shut down, it redirected to Rent-a-clown.com, a fictional entertainment company. The employee pictures are actually pictures of the Whysoserious.com/ComicCon participants in Joker makeup. Letters and balls flash, and a cheery circus MIDI plays in the background.
Clowns for rent
| Bits-and-pieces Floyd
Bowlegs Mick Lumps Sylvester With an axe Hank Wimpy Jed Popular Tommy Headfirst Bill Mumps Lloyd Giggles Bill Terrible Ronald Popular Butch Terrible George Mixed-up Bill Easybleeder Earl Inside-out Hank Jaunty Earl Cheerful Humphrey Lumps Donny Outlaw Butch Sloppy Teddy |
Fishknife Freddy
Horizontal Teddy Rabid Hank Shingles Leonard Blinks Ronald Footloose Donny Itchy Leonard Lumps Bill Rightsideup Bill With an axe Butch Easybleeder Klyde Inside-out Lou Blinks Lou Bits-and-pieces Klyde Wimpy Leonard Kerosone Sylvester Itchy Mick Shingles Sylvester Quarantine Humphrey Peeler Frankie |
Outlaw Earl
Itchy Lloyd Tickles Carl Horizontal Mick With an axe Jed Whackjob Frankie Shortstack Hank Shingles Carl Kerosone Butch Fishknife Sylvester Sinful Floyd Deep six Humphrey With an axe Leonard Chipper Bill Rightsideup Lou Chuckles Frankie With an axe Freddy Kerosone Butch Crooked Floyd Popular Frankie |
Deep six Boris Jaunty Mick Horizontal Johnny Jaunty Oswald Right-angle Mick Shortstack Carl Sloppy Tommy Giggles Floyd Serial Jed Sloppy Earl Rightsideup Lloyd Popular Humphrey Headfirst Tommy Sawed-off Johnny Gutshot Leonard Terrible Klyde Chipper Mick Terrible Floyd Twitches Klyde Scabs Teddy |
With an axe Sid Kerosone George Deadly Bill Black-and-blue Jed Terrible Hank Black-and-blue Teddy Inside-out Lloyd Headfirst George With an axe Sid Popular Donny Whackjob Boris Peepers Bill Serial Bill Itchy Bill Shortstack Mick Bits-and-pieces Lou Lumps Floyd Blinks Sylvester Rightsideup Lloyd Rightsideup Humphrey |
Chuckles Klyde Easybleeder Bill Peepers Teddy Cinders Teddy Ransack Lloyd Gutshot Floyd Popular Boris Bits-and-pieces Leonard Cheerful Earl Footloose George Jumpy Sylvester Wimpy Lloyd Whackjob Leonard Deadly Sylvester Whackjob Ronald Chuckles Humphrey Sawed-off Freddy Outlaw Oswald Popular Frankie Headfirst Lloyd |
Deep six Frankie Cinders Sylvester Scabs Johnny Bowlegs Hank Terrible Ronald Horizontal Carl Chuckles Earl Scabs Johnny Quarantine Humphrey Chuckles Humphrey Kerosone Earl With an axe Hank Quarantine Mick Twitches Butch Itchy Earl Deadly Donny Quarantine Tommy Chuckles Tommy Kerosone Butch |
Hidden message
Like Ibelieveinharveydenttoo.com after it shut down, there are hidden "ha ha ha"s and and stray letters, this time in the site's source code. After removing all the "HA"'s from the commented HTML code, the hidden message appears:
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made you look |
March 26, 2008
Recruitment text message duties are apparently transferred from humanresources@whysoserious.com to recruiting@rent-a-clown.com. Participants with cell phones receive the following message:
| Hey clown! Long time, no crime spree! Well, put on your floppy shoes and answer this question: are you ready to get to work? (ReplyY/N) |
Replying resulted in this message, suggesting a new game before April Fool's:
| Glad to see you’re still alive and kicking. I’ll be in touch before Poisson d’Avril. |
For the other phone-owners who did not manage to reply in time, the following was sent:
| Sorry you were a little slow on the draw this time around, clown. But don't worry, the circus ain't over... |
March 30, 2008
Participants are called on their phones by a live person and informed that they are one out of 17 recruits who replied to the text message on March 26. They are then given a letter and then told to share their letter with other "accomplices". If a cell phone owner is unable to be contacted, their letter is given to a participant who was already called.
| "You ready for a job, clown? The boss wants me to start you off easy. I'm going to give you a secret letter." |
The list of letters is as follows, as compiled by participants who have shared their letters on SHH!.
- The Schlone: "W"
- Xnbomb, Gupfee & Giskard: "E" as in "Elephant"
- bassboy616 & Mr.Walken: "Y" as in "Yo-Yo"
- punk: "R" as in "Ransom"
- Pennyworth: "V" as in "Victim"
- ianskyvox: "T" as in "Thief" (repeated), "O" as in "Operator" (original recipient of letter did not respond to calls)
- BriGonJinn/GQJoker: "A" as in "Assault"
- BigTonyVegas: "N" as in "Narcotics"
- EddieNashton: "C" as in "Clown"
- Screwpa!: "A" as in "Action"
- vlkers54: "L" as in "Laugh"
- fceeviper: "G" as in "Gun"
- FlyingMonkey: "C" as in "Clown"
- Gerik: "E" as in "Elephant"
- Matt100: "L" as in "Laundry"
- Fishtankbb: "N" as in "Network" (note: user was not able to report his letter until a day later, but the puzzle was solved by deducing the "N.")
A text message was also sent containing 6 extra letters:
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You're paying attention bozos. Here's a few bookend letters to add to your 17 to make the destination clearer: wcwowm |
This led to www.clowntravelagency.com.
