Austrian Hotel Is Forgetting Key Jester Selection Criteria

Apparently, there is an Austrian hotel that is advertising for a jester. According to the article I read, the idea is apparently to treat guests like royalty and the hotel reportedly stated that successful candidates need to be “communicative, extroverted, musical, creative and imaginative.” However, I don’t think this hotel has remembered to consider the Jester selection criteria that are truly important.

After all, what about whether or not candidates can keep the vessel with the pestle straight from the chalice from the palace? If candidates can’t remember that the “pellet with the poison’s in the vessel with the pestle” whereas “the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true,” then they have no business being a jester.

I mean, if they can’t even grasp something as simple as that, how are they ever handle things if someone breaks the chalice from the palace? If something like that happened, then they’d have to remember that the “pellet with the poison’s in the flagon with the dragon” and “the vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true.” If they don’t have the ability to deal with the former, they’d just be hopeless when it came to the latter.

Frankly, these are just things for which a jester must be prepared.

Personally, I applaud this Austrian hotel for trying to keep this honorable profession alive in these modern days of economy and strict practicality. Still, that’s no excuse for gambling with human lives. If jesters don’t have these qualifications then someone very well could end up dead. It’s no joke. I think this hotel needs to consider their jesters a little more carefully than they are apparently doing so far.