Not only did Coltrane say that he first fooled around with one that a musician left in his car, but he told the story twice in print and identified the musician, Chips Bayen, by name.
His most famous gag was probably creating Dumb Starbucks, a parody coffee shop that attracted thousands of customers by first fooling them into believing it was the beverage giant, then bringing them in on the joke.
The plot and cast of characters are borrowed (more or less) from the original, with several Moore-ian additions — a second fool, named Drool, and a refrain that could come in handy for any adapter of Shakespeare: "There's always a bloody ghost".
"They ask you a zillion different questions and we look at them and sometimes we laugh and we say are you guys writing a book?" Second, fool 'em.
Taymor's first film, Fool's Fire based on the short story "Hop-Frog" (1849) by Edgar Allan Poe aired on television in 1992 and was screened at the Sundance Film Festival later that year.
Delusion and fraud exist along a spectrum of deceit — first you fool yourself, then others — and one measure of a scientist is his ability to see that he is mistaken.
We've even poked a little fun along the way, starting with our first April Fool's story in 1997.
A person can come across awfully tempting in the beginning, but don't let first impressions fool you.
The track has been kicking around for 18 months, first on Fool's Gold, but with its plumply elastic bassline and a MK-esque cut-up of Taylor's vocal, the tune's UK re-release on Ministry of Sound seems to be fulfilling all its promises. .
Another problem is that it can be almost impossible to differentiate luck from skill on Wall Street, an issue that Taleb explores in depth in his first book, Fooled By Randomness.
