Mar. 22nd, 2005

jack: (Default)
And now, "world poetry day" meets "which nth century thinker are you", with Monty Python's Philosopher's Song:
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
Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, [some versions have 'Schopenhauer and Hegel']

And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
Who was just as schloshed as Schlegel.

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

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 René 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.
(Anyone puzzled by my username, see line 18.)
jack: (Default)
I kid, I kid. But for ages I've been making the point that I dislike the man because of the policies, not because he looks and acts like an idiot -- I often look and act like an idiot. It's just that the really funny cheap and unjustified digs always seem to be funnier when directed at him than, well, anyone else.

Well, it's finally happened, if rather late. There's a page that convincingly makes me laugh at Kerry more than Bush.

See: http://www.livejournal.com/users/zete_tic/329.html

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