Fool

Fool, The Fool, or Fools may refer to:

  • A bouffon, a clown, a harlequin, a jester
  • Fool, The Fool, or Fools may also refer to:

    Theatre

  • Fool (stock character), in literature and folklore
  • Shakespearean fool, an archetypal character in numerous works by Shakespeare
  • Fools Guild, a social club of comedic performers
  • Games and Tarot

  • The Fool (Tarot card), a Tarot card
  • Literature

  • The Fool (Raffi novel), 1880
  • The Fool, by H. C. Bailey 1927
  • Fool (novel), a 2009 novel by Christopher Moore
  • Fools (play), a 1981 play by Neil Simon
  • The Fool (fictional character), a fictional character in The Realm of the Elderlings by Robin Hobb
  • The Fool (play), a 1975 play by the English playwright Edward Bond
  • Food

  • Fruit fool, a dish made with cooked fruit
  • Ful medames (variant spelling)
  • Film

  • Fools (film), a 1970 American film
  • The Fool (1990 film), a 1990 British film
  • Fools (2003 film), a 2003 Indian film directed by Dasari Narayana Rao
  • The Fool (2014 film), a 2014 Russian film
  • Music

  • The Fool (design collective), a Dutch design collective and band influential in the psychedelic style of art in the 1960s
  • The Fool (Tarot card)

    The Fool or The Jester is one of the 78 cards in a Tarot deck; one of the 22 Trump cards that make up the Major Arcana. The Fool is unnumbered; sometimes represented as 0 (the first) or XXII (the last) Major Arcana in decks. It is used in divination as well as in game playing.

    Iconography

    The Fool is titled Le Mat in the Tarot of Marseilles, and Il Matto in most Italian language tarot decks. These archaic words mean "the madman" or "the beggar", and may be related to the word for 'checkmate' in relation to the original use of tarot cards for gaming purposes.

    In the earliest Tarot decks, the Fool is usually depicted as a beggar or a vagabond. In the Visconti-Sforza tarot deck, the Fool wears ragged clothes and stockings without shoes, and carries a stick on his back. He has what appear to be feathers in his hair. His unruly beard and feathers may relate to the tradition of the woodwose or wild man. Another early Italian image that relates to the tradition is the first (and lowest) of the series of the so-called "Tarocchi of Mantegna". This series of prints containing images of social roles, allegorical figures, and classical deities begins with "Misero", a depiction of a beggar leaning on a staff. A similar image is contained in the German Hofamterspiel; there the fool (German: Narr) is depicted as a barefoot man in robes, apparently with bells on his hood, playing a bagpipe.

    Jester

    A jester, court jester or fool was historically an entertainer during the medieval and Renaissance eras who was a member of the household of a nobleman employed to entertain him and his guests. A jester was also an itinerant performer who entertained common folk at fairs and markets. Jesters are also modern day entertainers who resemble their historical counterparts. Jesters in medieval times are often thought to have worn brightly coloured clothes and eccentric hats in a motley pattern and their modern counterparts usually mimic this costume. In medieval times jesters entertained with a wide variety of skills: principal ones included songs, music, and storytelling; additional ones included acrobatics, juggling, telling jokes, and magic. Much of the entertainment was performed in a comic style and many jesters made contemporary jokes in word or song about people or events well known to their audiences.

    Etymology

    The modern use of the English word jester did not come into use until the mid-16th century during Tudor times. This modern term derives from the older form gestour, or jestour, originally from Anglo-Norman (French) meaning story-teller or minstrel. Other earlier terms included fol, disour, and bourder. These terms described entertainers who differed in their skills and performances but who all shared many similarities in their role as comedic performers for their audiences.

    Nit

    Nit or NIT may refer to:

    Science and technology

  • Nit, the egg of a louse
  • Head louse, sometimes known as nits
  • Nit (unit), a unit of luminance equivalent to one candela per square metre
  • Nat (unit), a logarithmic unit of information or entropy, sometimes called nit
  • Organisations

  • Nagpur Improvement Trust, a local civil government body in Nagpur, India
  • Schools and Colleges

  • Nagoya Institute of Technology, a college in Nagoya, Japan
  • National Institutes of Technology, 31 engineering schools of national importance located in India
  • Naval Institute of Technology, a school in Biliran, Philippines
  • Nekomi Institute of Technology, a fictional university in the anime/manga Oh My Goddess!
  • Nippon Institute of Technology, a college in Saitama, Japan
  • Nishinippon Institute of Technology, a college in Fukuoka, Japan
  • Northern Institute of Technology Management, a school in Germany
  • Sports

  • National Invitation Tournament, a men's college basketball tournament in the United States
  • Other uses

  • Nit, a trivial detail; the object of nitpicking
  • Head louse

    The head louse (Pediculus humanus capitis) is an obligate ectoparasite of humans that causes pediculosis capitis. Head lice are wingless insects spending their entire life on the human scalp and feeding exclusively on human blood.Humans are the only known hosts of this specific parasite, while chimpanzees host a closely related species, Pediculus schaeffi. Other species of lice infest most orders of mammals and all orders of birds, as well as other parts of the human body.

    Lice differ from other hematophagic ectoparasites such as fleas in spending their entire life cycle on a host. Head lice cannot fly, and their short stumpy legs render them incapable of jumping, or even walking efficiently on flat surfaces.

    The non-disease-carrying head louse differs from the related disease-carrying body louse (Pediculus humanus humanus) in preferring to attach eggs to scalp hair rather than to clothing. The two subspecies are morphologically almost identical but do not normally interbreed, although they will do so in laboratory conditions. From genetic studies, they are thought to have diverged as subspecies about 30,000–110,000 years ago, when many humans began to wear a significant amount of clothing. A much more distantly related species of hair-clinging louse, the pubic or crab louse (Pthirus pubis), also infests humans. It is visually different from the other two species and is much closer in appearance to the lice which infest other primates. Lice infestation of any part of the body is known as pediculosis.

    Silly (song)

    "Silly" is a song written by Fritz Baskett, Clarence McDonald and Deniece Williams and performed by Williams. The soulful ballad was released off Williams' My Melody album in 1981 and became the most successful track off the album reaching as high as number fifty-three on the Billboard Hot 100 becoming an even bigger success on the R&B chart where it peaked at number-eleven. It has since gone on to become one of Williams' most requested songs over a career that has spanned over thirty years. The song featured production by Williams and respected Philly soul producer Thom Bell. The song was recorded at Philadelphia's acclaimed Sigma Sound Studios. The song would be later covered by singer Taral Hicks nearly two decades later in 1997 and was released as the second single off Hicks' debut album becoming a hit on the R&B chart.

    One of Williams' influences, Patti LaBelle, later recorded the song for her 2005 album, Classic Moments. Singer Monica later sampled the instrumental intro and bridge of the song for her number-one R&B hit, "Everything to Me" and also interpolated Williams' ending high notes at the end of the song. Monica and Williams sang "Everything to Me" and "Silly" respectively together at the BET Awards in 2010. The-Dream also sampled the song for his song "Silly", which featured Casha, on his free mixtape 1977.

    Silly (band)

    Silly is a German rock band. Founded in East Germany in 1978, Silly was one of the country's most popular music acts, and was well known for its charismatic lead singer Tamara Danz. Her death in 1996 ended the band's recording career after 18 years. In 2005 the surviving members began to perform as Silly again, first with several guest singers, before choosing actress Anna Loos to replace Danz. The first album with the new line-up, Alles Rot, became the band's most successful to date, reaching number 3 on the German charts in 2010.

    Band history

    The band was founded in East Berlin in 1978 as Familie Silly (The Silly Family) by guitarist Thomas Fritzsching and bassist Mathias Schramm, evolving from Fritzsching's previous band Phönix. They added Familie to the band's name after East German authorities refused to allow Silly by itself, as they saw it as an anglicism; the band claimed that Silly was the name of their mascot, a cat, who behaved in a silly manner.

    The early band also consisted of keyboardists Ulrich Mann and Manfred Kusno and drummer Mike Schafmeier. They recruited singer Tamara Danz, the daughter of a diplomat who had previously studied linguistics; she had previously worked as a singer in both the Oktoberklub, a politically charged vocal group, and the Horst-Krüger-Band, a popular progressive rock ensemble.

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    Silly Fool

    by: Nits Bis

    (Peters)
    Ugly street ugly town
    Ugly faces running 'round
    Silly fool silly fool
    No one knowing where he's bound
    Silly fool silly fool
    Always someone else's tool
    Silly fool silly fool
    Don't you have pride at all
    Pride at all
    Let it rain let it rain
    Let the rain wash away that
    Fool fool
    Marching down the street today
    Beehive behave
    Always doing what they're told
    Fool fool
    No one seems alive at all
    Alive at all
    Books are burned (the flames are running high)
    Books are burned (the bodies follow soon)
    Silly fool silly fool
    What you're going to do today
    Silly fool silly fool
    Look at what the papers say
    Silly fool silly fool
    Listen to the neighbours say
    Silly fool silly fool
    Doesn't make sense at all
    Sense at all
    Flags torn, symbols worn
    Nobody who seems to care
    Silly fool silly fool




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