Substitute for the corpse. Fool loses his mother's corpse on way to funeral. Mistakes old woman for mother and substitutes her

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Substitute for the corpse. Fool loses his mother's corpse on way to funeral. Mistakes old woman for mother and substitutes her.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd disregard of facts. · Absurd disregard of natural laws. · view the constellation · filed as J1959.2

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IndiaThompson-Balys.

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Filed under Absurd disregard of natural laws – miscellaneous.

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Simpleton drives goats into a well, because he thinks it would be cooler for them

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