Now, changing the subject, Anita came home from School one day and asked, "Daddy, why is it that, when kids at school tell a joke or a story, the goofy guy in the story is always named Clarence?"
"The-Life-of-Me-an-autobiography"
Johnson, Clarence Edgar
He looked so downright goofy that it took my mind off Nefer-in-character for all of eight seconds.
"No Great Magic"
Fritz Reuter Leiber
The fact of the matter was that I had about reached the stage where I was prepared to try anything once, however goofy.
"Right Ho, Jeeves"
P. G. Wodehouse