A fork of Rural Dictionary
A goofus often dedicates every minute of every day to being a gangster or something similar (and usually thinks other people live the same way as them, or wants to be the same thing as them).
He/she spent his/her entire life trying to pull the strings of other people who were were too uptight to be in that life only gangsters knew. He/she was good enough at it, you wouldn't even think he/she was ever a goofus.
The kind of person who sets up anything from a robbery to a fight (and if they made a dollar by putting it on a show on tv like punk'd, that's what they would try and do).
The girl wanted to put brad pitt, johnny knoxville, and see man in a video but for some unknown reason (if there was a reason at all) decided to try and put local folk in her goofus set up).
Someone who engages in inappropriate, silly, or dumb behavior, usually innocently. Derived from 'Goofus' in the Goofus and Gallant stories in Highlights for Children.
I was such a goofus for keeping my cell phone on during the movie.