Does Your Village Need an Idiot?

It doesn’t matter what you pay village idiots because you can easily trick them out of whatever money they have; but, they WILL get an hour for lunch and two fifteen minute breaks or their union will come down on you like a ton of bricks.

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Village idiots make up poems and sing silly songs. Transcribe them and you can create a book of nonsense poems which will make you insanely rich should the nineteenth century ever come around again.

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You need village idiots because the children of the village won’t terrify themselves.

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They tell tales of sound and fury signifying nothing, which means, if you weren’t listening, it was no great loss.

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Village idiots often moonlight as licensed contractors or public defenders.

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Village idiots can be useful in watching the village while everyone else is up in the mountains burning Frankenstein’s castle to the ground.

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Most village idiots are self-taught… and when you are self-taught, as the expression goes, you have an idiot for an instructor… so, that’ll save some time…

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A village idiot is a representative of the township, just like a councilperson or a mayor, except no one in the council walks around without any pants on. As far as the mayor goes, it varies from administration to administration.

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When disaster strikes, you can count on the village idiot to stand shoulder to shoulder with you, facing adversity, while tying a sweat sock to a cat’s tail.

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A village idiot is essential to nearly every township… unless they have a rugby team, in which case the village idiot is redundant…