Jester Hats

Well, let’s talk fools. There are regular old run-of-the-mill fools then there are those who are licensed fools. Both types of fool have an excuse to make serious mistakes but one of them has access to the king’s courtyard and is completely glorified. The job of being a jester died long ago. You know a hat is impressively cool when it outlives the profession that it was originally associated with though. Jester hats often have bells on them. Eccentricity is something that this list of hats has been lacking. Jester hats are quite eccentric. There is one thing that I must say. Clowns. We have taken something so beautiful and turned it into something so profoundly disturbing. I think we really owe the old jesters for what we have done to them. It is important that we remind any jester ghosts that may be watching us that we love them and that we are sorry. We must let them know that clowns were an accident and that the original fool is still the best. Jesters are hilarious. They could deliver news to the king that no one else could possibly deliver. There is an excellent example of this that I have acquired from Wikipedia, the most legitimate source of information that the world has ever known! In 1340, when an entire French fleet was defeated in the Battle of Sluys, the king was surely going to be furious. Who broke the news to him? A jester took it upon himself to tell a joke to the king about France’s failure. He said that English sailors don't even have the guts to jump into the water like the brave French. Comedic genius my friend, comedic genius! And with any luck some of that comedic genius will rub off on you if you wear their eccentric three-tipped hats.