Fatal disregard of anatomy – miscellaneous.
The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd disregard of facts. · Fatal disregard of anatomy. · view the constellation · filed as J1919
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The remodelled stork. A trickster cuts off the bill and legs of a stork to make him look more like a real birdWhere the ducks ford. A fool is asked where the river is fordable. He says, "Everywhere." The man tries to ride across and is almost drowned. The fool, "Those little ducks were able to cross here; why couldn't a big fellow like you?"The two extra pounds. A dog has eaten 14 pounds of butter; the fool squeezes 16 pounds from himFool cuts off tails of oxen so that they will look like fine steedsGenitals cut off through ignoranceSimpleton's ignorance of anatomy leads him to share his wife with a priestFool believes that he has begot child with his sister by an earboxThe man without a member: foolish wife gives her husband money to buy himself oneCowboy shoots his wife when she breaks her leg (or is injured in another way)