Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for April 14, 2018

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    oldpine52  almost 6 years ago

    At least they didn’t die at the Palace.

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    Kveldulf  almost 6 years ago

    Okay, who’s going to be the first to question the colour of the king’s hair?

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    Superfrog  almost 6 years ago

    No fooling.

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    rwjames  almost 6 years ago

    I love that one of the punishments is literally a laughing stock.

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    Varnes  almost 6 years ago

    They probably went through a few Court Jesters before the kings decided to ignore their barbs and just laugh instead…After all, it couldn’t be true could it? Who would say that to the King? So eventually what the jesters said could be true, yet laughable enough so they didn’t get killed….I admit, it had to be a tough audience….

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    pcolli  almost 6 years ago

    Jester song at twilight…..

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    belgarathmth  almost 6 years ago

    This could easily be a “Wizard of Id” comic. The Fink locks up poor Jester all the time.

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    sandpiper  almost 6 years ago

    The room for discarded advisors and agency heads

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    Packratjohn Premium Member almost 6 years ago

    The jester was traditionally the only person who was allowed to speak the truth to the king. Guess that’s all changed now…

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    tripwire45  almost 6 years ago

    As I recall, the court jester wasn’t just supposed to be funny, he was supposed to be a fool, that is, because the king considered the jester mad (crazy, insane), the jester could tell the truth but the king wouldn’t take him seriously. Everybody else though got the message.

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    pnmiq  almost 6 years ago

    What got him sent to the dungeon was beginning with, “It was a dark and Stormy night”. That is all it took.

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    GreenT267  almost 6 years ago

    Fondly remembering the Danny Kaye movie, The Court Jester — “The pellet with the poison’s in the flagon with the dragon! The vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true”. . . or was it in the vessel with the pestle?

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    Greyhame  almost 6 years ago

    Looks like the old Benny Hill routine.

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    Radish the wordsmith  almost 6 years ago

    Has Bung showed up for the interview yet?

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    magicwalnut Premium Member almost 6 years ago

    I wonder if they could escape punishment by beginning every joke with, “Thou wise, intelligent, infallible Magesty”?

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    Ermine Notyours  almost 6 years ago

    The Jester made fun of the King? What a fool.

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    JudyAz  almost 6 years ago

    So did the jester borrow the coat from James Dean?

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    1MadHat Premium Member almost 6 years ago

    It’s hard to entertain the humor impaired……

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    RAGs  almost 6 years ago

    There was a BIG difference between a “jester” and a “fool”.

    The “Jester” was often a person with a physical deformity and/or of short stature who was of at least average intelligence and used his position to get revenge on those who had slighted him.

    The “Fool” was a person of low intelligence who was laughed at because of his mistakes.

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    keenanthelibrarian  almost 6 years ago

    So the jesters are all “figurative-ists?”

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