Clyde — April’s Fool

Published 12:00 am Sunday, March 31, 2024

Proverbs 12:15 “The way of the fool is right in his own eyes.” Guess we all know that without thinking, duh. Like when you “get” a joke, there is not a lot you can do to stop it. Like, what do you say to a one-legged hitchhiker? Hop in. You should have heeded the warning “caveat lector” let the reader beware and you wouldn’t be in the middle of this cockamamy idea. You could have traced the decalcomania and been forewarned not to start something you can’t finish.

You are almost halfway there now so — keep going. It can’t get any worse. Well, maybe it can.

“But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise/and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things that are mighty.” I Corinthians 1:27. That is to confound as in to pour together. We have so many things that should not be put together. Like, oil and H2O.

April Fool’s Day was founded in 1832 but was mentioned as early as 1687. Even Old Will livened up those dead plays with jests and fool-hearted lovers. “What fools these mortals be.” Court jesters came about long before Old Shakespeare. 

Ironically, the word jester comes right before Jesus in the Webster’s dictionary. In this scenario, it would come right after.

What did the fish say when he ran into a wall? Dam.

“All our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death.” Foolishly, Mr. Al Capp invented Sadie Hawkins Day so that Dogpatch Sadie could catch her homely self a mate if he was foolish enough to enter a race. Not unlike the human race where “fools rush in where angels dare to trod.” 

Your yipping Yankee yeti yanked yesterday’s yearnings yet yuppy Yosef yowled, Yipee!

Where do you find a turtle with no legs? Right where you left him. Ha Ha.

And, the first shall be last and the last shall be first. Gotcha.

The end.

Nobody’s fool, Clyde