DUNCE CAP School on yer head HOW TO IDENTIFY AN IDIOT

A DUNCES CAP

Formerly placed on the head of a dull child at school.

Made from a kindly amount of a robust brown paper, the hat is  16"  high and weighs 54 grams.

This fine example sports the more usual  5"  'D'  (for dunce).

One size fits all dunce bonces.

The Cap or Hat does show signs of some light use but it is generally in a fine condition.  Happily the Hat sports no sign  of lacrimal secretion.  No smears, tears or tears are in evidence and the hat is of such generous proportion as to present no problems with 'ears'.

Strangely, everyone has heard of this subtle piece of teaching kit, but those who have seen it in action seem unwilling to admit it, or even readily point out either a victim or the advantage of its useage.      

The string which is new is long and generous in its proportions and is in good servicable condition.

HOW TO DEFINE AN IRIOT

....   ....   .... the end of a long, busy and quiet satisfying day. A good day generally. Made sum progress.  Made some finds, cleared part of the feedback backlog, shovelled some of the questions gathering on the northern slopes. At last also broke the back of the problem with No 3 Sprogs front porch door restoration. Sold a Scorpio engine to a guy in Blackpool. Took er-indoors for a mountains and round the park test drive of t' new engine we got fro Scunthorpe. All that went very well. 1.55 and into Monday - final brew an pobbies an bed - NOT - lyin in the corner an a bit untidy is the newly aquired - lesser Sprog/swop  Super Red Racin-Root8Dyson  our latest wonder device. Much loved by er-indoors (not that the Kirby weight training Vac wasn't used or appreciated any less than.......). Decided there was a problem here - more than a tidy and go - it seemed that some potatoe had made a DIY improvement to the Super Dyson Wand - seemed like an metal tube had been inserted for some purpose and then the culprit had abandoned this innovation and left the tube stuck in the end of the Dyson wand. A quick fix tidy and to bed was decided. Not so simple - the metal tube was quite wel attached. Tools, devices, levers, grips, weight - noise. Well into the process of removing the foreign metal tube when, disturbed by the noise, er-in comes down and asks what the .... is going on - brief explanation - discovery that Dysons DO have some metal parts it seems. A new wand is £23 it seems....

After short reflection - awarded Rus D hat. Q.E.D. OK? So!

Don't all milliuners make mistakes.