Wise Old Fool

August 29, 1966

This'll be me when we go back to school in August. I'm never fully awake until 9 AM or so. I keep telling employers this but they always insist I arrive at work up to three hours before 9 like we don't live in a 24-hour world all interconnected to each other.

How about you leave the room, Veeblefester? Brutus is on his break.

That's a weird thing to say to your child, and it's not a common saying if it's a saying at all. The only uses I can find for it are from the Bible. "If you want to wise, be faithful in God", "If you want to be wise, listen to your parents", "If you want to be wise, honor God in sexual purity(!)". It's like Brutus' parents looked at him and were like, "This kid seems dumb, we better try to keep him from becoming dumber!"