BS: A Short Joke

Subject: A Short Joke
From: Stephen L. Rich
Date: 07 Aug 02 - 11:58 PM

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This is just a quick gag from my website. i thought that 'Catters would understand it even if nobody else did. Just click here

Subject: RE: BS: A Short Joke
From: katlaughing
Date: 08 Aug 02 - 12:01 AM

Your link doesn't work, Stephen...try again?

Subject: RE: BS: A Short Joke
From: Stephen L. Rich
Date: 08 Aug 02 - 12:05 AM

In the words of the great sage, "This time for sure! Presto!" Click Here

Subject: RE: BS: A Short Joke
From: Stephen L. Rich
Date: 08 Aug 02 - 12:11 AM

Third time's the charm, folk.

Click (and I really mean it this time) Here

Subject: RE: BS: A Short Joke
From: Sorcha
Date: 08 Aug 02 - 12:53 AM

Oh dear.......last link works. Chuckle.

Subject: RE: BS: A Short Joke
From: Amos
Date: 08 Aug 02 - 01:01 AM

Why, Stephen ... how inteeeeLEKshual of you!!! LOL!!


A

Subject: RE: BS: A Short Joke
From: katlaughing
Date: 08 Aug 02 - 01:04 AM

LOL! Is it just by chance the character is an elephant, symbol of the GOP, or was it an arbitrary choice?**BG**

Subject: RE: BS: A Short Joke
From: Stephen L. Rich
Date: 08 Aug 02 - 06:51 AM

I'm glad everybody liked it. Thanks.

Katlaughing -- the elephant is the title character in a comicstrip called "Snoot" (it seemed like a good name for an elephant at the time). It's about a fellow named Sam Spindler who is a completely normal human being except for the fact that he shares a two bedroom apartment with an elephant, a pair of identical twin, midget, circus clowns, and a retired human cannonball.

As for Snoot's politics -- well you just gave me an idea for another strip!

Subject: RE: BS: A Short Joke
From: katlaughing
Date: 08 Aug 02 - 09:06 AM

Kewl! Thanks for filling us in and pleae, let us know when you do the next one...um...I get a share of the copyright, right?**BG**

Subject: RE: BS: A Short Joke
From: Big Mick
Date: 08 Aug 02 - 09:27 AM

#$%@$%^%SNERK!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: A Short Joke
From: harpgirl
Date: 08 Aug 02 - 10:28 AM

...Well, I certainly enjoyed it!!!

Subject: RE: BS: A Short Joke
From: Guessed
Date: 08 Aug 02 - 10:53 AM

those first two links, you contstructed them arbitrarilly- obviously.

Subject: RE: BS: A Short Joke
From: Trevor
Date: 08 Aug 02 - 12:34 PM

Rene Descartes walks in to a bar. the barman says 'Do you want a beer?' 'I think not' says Rene, and disappears.

Subject: RE: BS: A Short Joke
From: michaelr
Date: 08 Aug 02 - 03:22 PM

What happens if you cross an existentialist philosopher with a Mafia thug?

He makes you an offer you can't understand...

Subject: RE: BS: A Short Joke
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 08 Aug 02 - 08:06 PM

I find myself deeply troubled by the validity of the de-facto assumption, implicit in the construction of this joke, that existentialists actually do have problems committing suicide successfully.

Is this an empirically proven fact?

Murray

Subject: RE: BS: A Short Joke
From: Bill D
Date: 08 Aug 02 - 08:19 PM

existentialists qua existentialists have problems deciding whether suicide is worth bothering with....but they have no need to 'prove' anything....only observers of the phenomenon care, and since existentialists so seldom get around to it, there is VERY little data....thus empirical proof is statistically useless......I think...(therefore I am)...unless....hmmmmmm.....

Subject: RE: BS: A Short Joke
From: Stephen L. Rich
Date: 08 Aug 02 - 09:09 PM

Let us not forget Jean Paul Sartre's epitath:

"Here lies an existentialist; all dressed up and nowhere to go."

Subject: RE: BS: A Short Joke
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 08 Aug 02 - 09:27 PM

I have to say that I prefer Descartes to Jean Paul Sartre any day of the week.

For starters, the Monty Python team never dared to mock Rene Descartes ( "Hello Mrs Cut-out!" "Hello Mrs Rene Descartes" ?????) Nawwww...

Secondly, Jean-Paul never invented Cartesian geometry, or even Sartrian geometry, so where's that at, huh ?

Thirdly, Descartes had the coolest hair style, kind of cross between Isaac Newton and Dr Johnson. Sartre ? You'd think they'd never invented conditioner.

Call me old fashioned, but "Cogito ergo Sum" still RULES !! (as the late lamented Mbo might have said ... )

Murray

Subject: RE: BS: A Short Joke
From: Stephen L. Rich
Date: 08 Aug 02 - 11:55 PM

Murray McLeod -- In other words, you'd be inclined to say that Sartre' was a Fartre'?

Subject: RE: BS: A Short Joke
From: rangeroger
Date: 09 Aug 02 - 12:09 AM

Just as long as you don't put Descartes before Dehorst.

rr

Subject: RE: BS: A Short Joke
From: GUEST,Crazy Eddie
Date: 09 Aug 02 - 06:01 AM

"For starters, the Monty Python team never dared to mock Rene Descartes....
The Philosophers song! ...... & Rene Descartes was a drunken fart, "I drink therefore I am"

Subject: RE: BS: A Short Joke
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 09 Aug 02 - 07:39 AM

Of course, the Philosopher's Song. How could I have forgotten. As a penance, here are the lyrics.

Immanuel Kant was a real pissant
Who was very rarely stable.
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar
Who could think you under the table.
David Hume could out-consume
Schopenhauer and Hegel,
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
Who was just as schloshed as Schlegel.
There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach ya
'Bout the raising of the wrist.

John Stuart Mill, of his own free will,
On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill.
Plato, they say, could stick it away
Half a crate of whisky every day.
Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle,
Hobbes was fond of his dram,
And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart:
"I drink, therefore I am"
Yes, Socrates, himself, is particularly missed;
A lovely little thinker but a bugger when he's pissed!

Murray

Subject: RE: BS: A Short Joke
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Aug 02 - 08:18 AM

Stephen: "Only smartre."

Subject: RE: BS: A Short Joke
From: HuwG
Date: 09 Aug 02 - 08:37 AM

Well remembered, Murray MacLeod, but you missed a line from the mid section:

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There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach ya 'Bout the raising of the wrist. Socrates himself was permanently pissed.

etc.

Subject: RE: BS: A Short Joke
From: Firecat
Date: 09 Aug 02 - 01:27 PM

Hahahaha! I like it!

Subject: RE: BS: A Short Joke
From: Bill D
Date: 09 Aug 02 - 09:07 PM

When I was in college..(about 1968) the audio-visual center of the school sent out it's monthly bulletin, noting that the movie featured one week would be "Plato's Republic"...we, the graduate students in Philosophy did not bother to GO, but instead thought up silly jokes about it....and soon, there appeared on the bulletin board, a handwritten addendum to the notice.

"Next month, the featured movie will be Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, starring Julie Newmar as the sensible manifold"

Subject: RE: BS: A Short Joke
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 10 Aug 02 - 04:47 AM

And featuring George C.Scott as the categorical imperative....

Murray

Subject: RE: BS: A Short Joke
From: Wincing Devil
Date: 11 Aug 02 - 02:47 AM

Please remember, Jean Paul Sartre is not dead, he just thinks he is...

(BTW, This little quip came to me IMMEDIATELY upon hearing of JPS's death.)