One morning a clown dressed up as a vampire and walked out of his home, where he ran into his neighbor, a banker. "What is funny about that getup?" the banker asked.

"Well," the clown replied, "the public always behaves like zombies, so I figured we are constantly celebrating Halloween."

As his neighbor shook his head, the clown walked down the street, anticipating the same reaction from his fellow citizens. But when he approached a busy intersection, sunshine beamed through the clouds and struck him, causing him to collapse to the ground. As he reached out to the passing foot traffic, which paid no attention to him, the clown realized he actually was a vampire. Soon his body withered away under the sun.

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