Madame Tussauds Wax Museum decided, for some reason best known to them, to do a wax figure of Goofball. Once finished, there was the problem of finding an appropriate place to put it.

They couldn't put it next to George Washington. Why? Because George Washington couldn't tell a lie.

They almost decided to put it next to Richard M. Nixon, because Nixon couldn't tell the truth.

The next possibility was to put it next to George. W. Bush, because Bush couldn't tell the difference.

They almost decided to put it next to Christopher Columbus, because Columbus thought he knew where he was going, when he got there he didn't know where it was, and when he got back, he didn't know where he had been.

The decision is still up in the air. They're trying to decide whether to put him next to Columbus—or Bozo the Clown.

And funniest thing of all:   they gave both Goofus and the wax dummy I.Q. tests. And the wax dummy had a higher I.Q. than Goofus.

Well, that was predictable. . . .

Don Firth