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Posthumous fools

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Jim Dalling
Jun 17, 2022
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In the quest to find the current World’s Biggest Fool, I’m planning granting posthumous fools award to some of the biggest fools in history.

Have any suggestions?

So far Leonardo di Vinci was nominated. The reason? He kept attempting the impossible. Because of this he was hugely innovative.

Next?

This guy:

https://www.youtube.com/c/RobertMaddox

Because:

Robert Maddox should get this award because he is bonkers. He makes MadMax machines and drives them... often filming himself with a selfie stick. He burns gas like there is no climate crisis for the joy of it. And. His beard.

This dude is absurd.

And living.

So, perhaps we can open this up to some living people too.

We can make them honorary members of The Remarkable Fools Society.

And perhaps, if I sell the million dollar joke, I can dedicate my life to finding and celebrating the most absurd humans I can find.

Think of it as a variation of Letterman’s Stupid Human Tricks - only delivered to you in the morning.

Or, perhaps this could be like morni…

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