Coffee With Jeff

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) ★ Support this podcas