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Examples of buffoons in the UK would be such people as Boris Johnson , John Prescott or Andy Crane - both of whom are held in popular regard but who neverthless engender amusement with their pronouncements and acts. An example of this type of behaviour is when Johnson memorably admitted publically that he had forgotten the title of his own book as he was writing it, hence an inconsistency between the wording on the hard cover ("Jottings From The Stump") and the dust jacket ("Jottings On The Stump"). A "tired and emotional" Earl Of Rochester was involved in an amusing incident in a poem presented to the king, when he said: :Poor Prince :Thy prick, like thy buffoons at Court :Will govern thee because it makes thee sport |
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