The Fooles Troupe Routine

Fooles: It be Time for some sense around here.

First Published on: Monday, 24 April 1995
Edited and Republished on: Tuesday, 14 January 1997


[Serious Announcer]	Bottel and Babbel be lazing on the Cathedral Steps, just out of sight of the Cathedral Clock, newly installed after the recent rumoured fire damage was repaired. With all the politics around here recently apparently caused by lack of communication, let us listen to couple of Real Fools.

[Babbel]	My Lord, have you the time?
[Bottel]	Yes, Battel wrote it down on a piece of paper for me.
[Babbel]	Oh, well can you tell me what it says?
[Bottel]	It be 8 o'clock be what it says.
[Babbel]	..... Be that the correct time?
[Bottel]	Yes.
[Babbel]	How dost thou know it was the correct time?
[Bottel]	Because that be what the time was on the Cathedral Clock when Battel wrote it on the piece of paper for me.
[Babbel]	Well, what if that be not the the time when someone asks you?
[Bottel]	Well then I show it not to them!
[Babbel]	So how do you know what time it is?
[Bottel]	I got it written down on a piece of paper!
[Serious Announcer]	Boom! Boom!
[Babbel]	I wish I had a piece of paper with the time written on it. (Thinks) Say, can I listen to your piece of paper?
[Bottel]	Yes, My lord.
[Babbel]	Hey, this piece of paper be not a-ticking!
[Bottel]	Well, it be a-ticking to your ear!
[Serious Announcer]	Boom! Boom!
[Babbel]	Say, My Father had something wonderful that used to get him awake in the morning and make his porridge.
[Bottel]	Oh, what was it?
[Babbel]	My Mother!

Ah! but then what would I know, I'm only a Fool!

Robin the Ruthless in Battel
Once Personal Fool to Her Majesty, Queen What's her Name?

With apologies to The Author's Favourite Fool, Mr Milliganer, the famous typo caused by the printer's devil..

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