John von Neumann Seen by his Brother by Nicholas A. von Neumann.
Berlin street scene. World War I: man at corner yelling repeatedly: "The Kaiser is an idiot. " Out of nowhere two police agents appear and arrest him for high treason. "But I was referring to the Austrian Kaiser, not to our Kaiser." "You can't fool us! We know who the idiot is. " (Context: Political science and semantic ambiguities.)
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