Idiots of the 33rd degree

Tim Cigelske
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.

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