Philosophy

AtticusFinch

'The Philosophers Song' Eric Idle, Monty Python (Pissed = drunk, not angry)

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 Freidrich Hegel.
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
Who was just as schloshed as Schlegel.
There's nothing Nietzche couldn't teach
about 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 everyday.
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

u2fergus

:laugh: I love Monty Python. :laugh:

Andeenero

You can't go wrong when historians do comedy!

heofon

And then there's brave Sir Robin...

AtticusFinch

MRS. HENDY:
Oh! I never knew Schopenhauer was a philosopher!
MR. HENDY:
Oh, yeah! He's the one that begins with an 'S'.
MRS. HENDY:
Oh.
MR. HENDY:
Umm, like, uh, 'Nietzsche'.
MRS. HENDY:
Does 'Nietzsche' begin with an 'S'?
MR. HENDY:
Uh, there's an 's' in 'Nietzsche'.
MRS. HENDY:
Oh, wow. Yes, there is. Do all philosophers have an 's' in them?
MR. HENDY:
Uh, yeah! I think most of 'em do.
MRS. HENDY:
Oh. Does that mean Selina Jones is a philosopher?
MR. HENDY:
Yeah! Right! She could be! She sings about the meaning of life.
MRS. HENDY:
Yeah. That's right, but I don't think she writes her own material.
MR. HENDY:
No. Oh, maybe Schopenhauer writes her material.
MRS. HENDY:
No. Burt Bacharach writes it.
MR. HENDY:
But there's no 's' in 'Burt Bacharach'.
MRS. HENDY:
Or in 'Hal David'.
MR. HENDY:
Who's Hal David?
MRS. HENDY:
He writes the lyrics. Burt just writes the tunes, only now, he's married to Carole Bayer Sager.
MR. HENDY:
Oh, waiter. This conversation isn't very good.