tomfool

• When Tim O'Reilly speaks, however, people stop thei tomfool browsing. —  Wi-Fi Networking News
• Why the old gas bag senator and his tomfool crap about dividing Iraq up and creating massive ethnic cleansing? —  ModerateVoters.org
• And if they like to muddle about with solicitors and pettifoggers and legal obstructions and weighty considerations of the tomfool order, until they have got a number of new gigantic species of vermin well established--Things always have been in a muddle, Redwood Redwood traced a twisted, tangled line in the air And our real interest lies at present with your boy Redwood turned about and came and stared at his collaborator What do you think of him, Bensington? —  The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth
• Why couldn't Swing Tunstall have stayed reasonably in Farewell instead of traipsing off over the range like a tomfool. —  The Heart of the Range
• You tomfool, you, why don't you take that turban off?" —  The Last Chronicle of Barset

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