Maybe you’ve seen a variation of this meme.
Well, that’s not what he said.
But maybe it’s what he meant?
3. Vols of Idiology!” Pray explain to me this Neological Title! What does it mean? When Bonaparte used it, I was delighted with it, upon the Common Principle of delight in every Thing We cannot understand. Does it mean Idiotism? The Science of Non compos menticism. The Science of Lunacy? The Theory of Delirium? Or does it mean the Science of Self Love? of Amour propre? or the Elements of Vanity?
John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 16 December 1816
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Carrying the Gun 