Idiots of the 33rd degree
Sep 3, 2018 · 3 min read
Mark Twain was incensed.
In his moment of rage, he lashed out.
He started by calling the object of his ire “without a doubt the most ignorant person now alive on the planet.”
Then added he was “an idiot of the 33rd degree.”
He concluded by saying the person was a “scion of an ancestral procession of idiots stretching back to the Missing Link” for good measure.


