ToBE #30: A sheet of fullscape paper

Have you seen one of it? I am sure most of us youngsters aged 30 and above will know what it means, and I am sure most of us spell it wrong as I have in the Subject above.

In mediaeval times, the court jester was also called a ‘fool’. Not a ‘fool’ as we normally use it, but it just means ‘clown’. When we say, “Making a fool of himself” or “Dressing like a fool”, it is actually meant in the sense of ‘clown’.

The clowns that we know of typically wear conical caps. The cone can be made by simply rolling a sheet of paper around the mid-point of its longer side. A sheet of paper large enough to fit a standard head-size was a “fool’s cap” paper.

No one is sure of the standard head-size, but be sure that it is “foolscap”, not fullscape.