A man ran across the track as Ferrari's Nigel Mansell was about to cross the line to win the 1989 Brazilian Grand Prix, prompting BBC commentator Murray Walker to exclaim: "What a fool running across the course - a raving lunatic".
For the third time in as many days, I have narrowly avoided a collision caused by some fool running a red light, darting into the middle of the intersection and coming to a dead stop behind a line of other cars also blocking the intersection at 3rd Street and Figueroa.
Even the Independent was fooled, running a short story about the matter, believing the ad to be genuine.
They cannot run outside for two reasons — one, the "dark, gritty air," fecal matter and bits of rubber tires burned to heat homes; two, the Taliban lurking out there somewhere, more than glad to pick off some fools running on the rocky terrain nearly a mile above sea level.
In the line of literature's holy fools, running from, say, the utterly simple-minded Chance in "Being There" to the bombastically cunning Ignatius J. Reilly in "A Confederacy of Dunces," the protagonist of Patricia Wood's first novel lands somewhere in the middle, not far from Forrest Gump.
The charade and parade of fools running for president made me question the need to vote.
Any fool could run it profitably today".
Also, you were a big damn fool to run out the back door like that.
But as much as I enjoyed her in "Other Desert Cities," Ms. Lavin wasn't a fool to run with Rita.
Henry Holt will publish John Camp's "The Fool's Run," even as Putnam's publishes John Sandford's "Rules of Prey". Sandford is Camp's pseudonym.
"Only a fool would run to the tower now," said Yukihide Kubota, 60, a small electronics shop owner who has lived his whole life just minutes from the shore.
