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Coffee With Jeff #164: Horace de Vere Cole


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Imagine being born rich enough to spend your life fulfilling your passions … Now imagine your passion was practical jokes. There was a man in the early 20th century who only seemed to want to make people – including himself – laugh. He was a jester who delighted in poking fun of people who are full of themselves.

Today, I have the story of Horace de Vere Cole and the Dreadnought hoax on the 164th episode of Sunday Morning Coffee with Jeff.

Show notes and links:

  • A Fool There Was – The New York Times (nytimes.com)
  • Horace de Vere Cole, The Sultan of Pranks (youtube.com)
  • Dreadnought hoax – the master piece of pranking (thevintagenews.com)
  • Horace de Vere Cole – Wikipedia (wikipedia.org)
  • Explained: The Zanzibar Hoax – YouTube (youtube.com)
  • Explained: The Dreadnought Hoax – YouTube (youtube.com)
  • The Bloomsbury Group: A Collection of Memoirs and Commentary (google.com)
  • The Time Virginia Woolf Wore Blackface (newyorker.com)
  • Tales of English Eccentrics – Tony Grumley-Grennan (google.com)
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