[Ads-l] "A village is missing its idiot."

[Jonathan Lighter]

Heard a number of times.

2000 _Independent_(London) (Aug. 28) 2: A village is missing its
idiot....[O]ffice e-mail jokes...."This employee is depriving a village
somewhere of its idiot."

2001 _News_ (Stuart, Fla.) (Apr. 21) D1: Which village is missing its idiot?

Etc., etc.

JL


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