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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-10 07:00 AM
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Monty Python - Philosophers' World Cup
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hobbit709 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-10 07:07 AM
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1. +1
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ananda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-10 07:22 AM
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2. Perfect!
Love it! Just hilarious.
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ithinkmyliverhurts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-10 07:31 AM
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3. "Beckenbauer obviously a bit of a surprise there."
For the soccer nerds.
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rpannier Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-10 07:34 AM
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4. Confucius was in with the Greeks
I agree the reality of the goal is in question
I think Confucius was embittered by being told he had no free-will
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ithinkmyliverhurts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-10 07:35 AM
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6. "Name go in book."
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rpannier Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-10 07:48 AM
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8. The Analects
or I Ching
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ithinkmyliverhurts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-10 07:34 AM
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5. And Wittgenstein was Austrian.
Germans have to dig deep to compete with the Greeks.
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-10 07:43 AM
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7. Marx should have started
:D
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Stevepol Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-10 10:43 AM
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9. The French would have given a better acct of themselves than the Germans.
Edited on Sat Jun-12-10 10:44 AM by Stevepol
Wasn't it Descartes who said, "I score, therefore I am"? When your very existence swings on your success on the field, you're going to bust your butt, not just spectate the way the Germans did. Who was coaching these slackards? The French would have shown more life. Vive la France!
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-10 11:30 AM
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11. No - more like I think therefore I am scoring
:evilgrin:
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XOKCowboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-10 11:16 AM
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10. Ahhhh back when humor didn't cater to the lowest common denominator
"Hegel is arguing that the reality is merely an a priori adjunct of non-naturalistic ethics, Kant via the categorical imperative is holding that ontologically it exists only in the imagination, and Marx is claiming it was offside."

Now THAT'S Funny! :rofl:
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-10 11:31 AM
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12. Fall down funny
:rofl:
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scarletwoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-10 11:40 AM
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14. You have to be literate to enjoy Monty Python. Well-read in the Classics, philosophy, history, etc.
I've loved them since the early 80s when our local PBS station started running re-runs. My dad loves them, too, so last year for his birthday I bought him a 16-disc DVD set of the complete Monty Python. Then I visited him every weekend and together we watched 2 or 3 discs at a sitting until we got through the whole set.

I was struck anew with the intellectual and literary components to so much of the writing.

Wuthering Heights in semaphore just kills me...
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-10 11:47 AM
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16. Now I understand your depth
It's in the genes :hi:
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scarletwoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-10 12:06 PM
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20. LOL We are grim, stoic Norwegians.
Evil socialists, too. :D

:hi:
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-10 12:20 PM
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25. hehehhehe
I should have known :hi: :D
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XOKCowboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-10 11:54 AM
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17. The Galaxy Song..
Edited on Sat Jun-12-10 11:55 AM by XOKCowboy
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'.

Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide.
We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
We go 'round every two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.

The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.


Freakin' Brilliant!
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HCE SuiGeneris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-10 12:05 PM
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19. Life is good, when such nuggets, eek their way
into my brain.

:smoke:
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scarletwoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-10 12:08 PM
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21. Awesome stuff. "The Meaning of Life" is one of my dad's favorite movies. nt
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-10 12:11 PM
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22. No you don't. It works on all levels.
For every sketch like the above, there's a sketch consisting of a naked guy playing a piano.
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HCE SuiGeneris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-10 12:13 PM
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23. Geez. Thanks for sharing, dickwad.
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-10 12:55 PM
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27. lol, wut?
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Cresent City Kid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-10 11:39 AM
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13. I fail to convince my wife that Monty Python is cerebral humor
The conversation breaks down to the "yes it is / no it isn't" futility portrayed in the argument sketch. She does like the Holy Grail movie, so it's not a lost cause.
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-13-10 06:29 AM
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33. Monty Python is deep humor
Lots of folks don't 'get' it. :D
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Cresent City Kid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-13-10 12:12 PM
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36. I knew an older guy from Scotland
who said it's even funnier when you know the specific politicians / celebrites of the time that they were mocking. According to him, I don't 'get it', or the full impact anyway.
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-13-10 03:00 PM
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37. Many folks don't understand that the funniest jokes
have some cultural context.
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-10 11:41 AM
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15. k&r
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HCE SuiGeneris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-10 11:54 AM
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18. You, my friend, have made my day!
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-10 12:19 PM
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24. You my friend
are most welcome :rofl:
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JerseygirlCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-10 12:45 PM
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26. Love it! Thanks! nt
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XOKCowboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-10 06:15 PM
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28. K&R now that the match is over...
:)
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rpannier Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-13-10 05:00 AM
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29. Great Halo's on the Lines Judges nt
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pipoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-13-10 05:33 AM
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30. My favorite musical parody..
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 turning of the wrist,
Socrates himself was permanently pissed...

John Stuart Mill, of his own free will, with half a pint of shandy was
particularly ill,
Plato, they say, could stick it away, half a crate of whiskey every day,
Aristotle, Aristotle was a beggar 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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtgKkifJ0Pw
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hobbit709 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-13-10 06:00 AM
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32. Are those teabags hanging from their hats?
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-13-10 06:31 AM
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35. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
Friedman and Rand :rofl:
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-13-10 06:30 AM
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34. LOL
:D
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dipsydoodle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-13-10 05:58 AM
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31. Excellent
:hi:
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