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Bush_Eats_Beef Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 09:53 AM
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WAS Rene Descartes a "drunken fart?" I dunno...but it's his BIRTHDAY!
Rene Descartes was born on March 31, 1596
French mathematician, philosopher and scientist, 1596-1650

Dubito ergo cogito; cogito ergo sum. (I doubt, therefore I think; I think therefore I am)

http://www.thinkexist.com/



Bruces' Philosophy Song Lyrics
Artist: Monty Python
Album: Live At The Hollywood Bowl

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 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 whiskey 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.
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 10:08 AM
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1. Alternately
"David Hume could out-consume
Wilhelm Freidrich Hegel"



(The version on the album "Matching Tie and Handkerchief.")
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Shine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 10:11 AM
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2. Descartes was riding on an airplane and the flight attndt. came up to him
and said, "Coffee, tea, or milk?"

Descartes said, "I think not."

...and he DISAPPEARED!!!

:rofl: heheheheh.
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 10:15 AM
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3. And in an animation in the first MPFC episode
A thought balloon comes from "The Thinker" statue saying, "(Thinks)... I think, therefore, I am."

Then a hand with a pin appears and pops the bubble. "The Thinker" looks at the camera like "Gulp," then... poof.

Then Eric Idle says, "And now, for something completely different: a man with three buttocks."
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Shine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 10:19 AM
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4. LOL! I love how MP makes the profound the profane.
Good stuff. :thumbsup:

(OMG, is that a ray of sun I am seeing? My eyes........!!1111)
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 10:33 AM
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5. You been up all night, too?
:silly:
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Shine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 10:47 AM
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6. Nope, just an early riser and addicted to DU.
sad, but true.

I always tend to check in while I'm going thru the morning routine with kids, getting them ready for school....

:hi:
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 10:50 AM
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7. I went to bed about 4 a.m.
and couldn't sleep. Muscle spasm in my lower back. (Okay, butt.)

Got up about 5:45 to take a Vicodin and, o' course, I had to fire up the puter. :eyes:
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Shine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 11:01 AM
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8. Hey, I got up at 5:45, too!
I was awakened by the high-pitched beeping of our automatic coffee maker, letting us know it was freshly brewed. God, I love that machine.

Sorry to hear about your back/butt. Sometimes I wish I had a stash o' Vicodin. I love that stuff. :hug:

Get up from the computer once and a while and walk around a bit, I'm sure that will help.

xo,
Dr. Shine :D

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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 11:10 AM
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9. Sage medical advice
That's exactly what I need to do.

This $(^%(#@&%|} weather ain't helpin' much, though. :grr:
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Shine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 12:06 PM
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10. I just took my own "medical" advice and am back from a short walk
It was good to get a bit of exercise, but my back and hip are all tweaked, too. Ugh.

I hate feeling so frail sometimes. x(
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