Horse jokes, and some news

[pyesetz]

A horse walks into a bar.  The barman says "Why the long face?"  The horse says "As an anthropomorphic horse, I fit in neither with humans nor my own kind, and have thus lived a life of loneliness."

A horse walks into a bar.  The bartender says, "Why the long face?"  The horse says, "Because I'm an alcoholic and it's killing my family."

A horse walks into a bar.  The bartender asks the horse if he's an alcoholic considering all the bars he frequents, to which the horse replies "I think not."  POOF!  The horse disappears.
      This is the point in time when all the philosophy students in the audience begin to giggle, as they are familiar with the philosophical proposition of Cogito ergo sum, or "I think, therefore, I am".
      But to explain the concept beforehand would be putting Descartes before the horse.

A neutrino walks through a bar.

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In other news, my mother died on Saturday.  6pm Israel time.  I heard about it five hours later, which was only an hour before the funeral on the other side of the world, so I couldn't possibly attend.  She had been on a respirator and a feeding tube for her last hour of life.

Comments

[shiver-raccoon.livejournal.com]

I'm really sorry to hear about your mother's passing.

I'm surprised that a funeral would start 6 hours after death; that doesn't give relatives any time to attend, even if they're local! Is this common in Isreal?

[pyesetz]

It is apparently common in Israel to hold the funeral super-quick, so that relatives outside the country cannot possibly be expected to attend.  Otherwise they might feel obligated to spend money they don't have on a super-expensive last-minute airplane ticket.

Israel is a very small country.  It's only 350 km from Haifa to Eilat.  Almost anyone who would want to attend her funeral is probably living in Jerusalem or an adjacent town.