Horse jokes, and some news
Mar. 17th, 2015 03:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pyesetzA 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.
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.
* * * * *
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.
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Date: 2015-03-21 06:34 pm (UTC)I'm very sorry to hear of such a terrible loss. I recall the time Dad took ill, with the email of a grave tone, and then a week or two later, that news, in a phone call from the hospital at about 2am.. it's a hell of a lot to take in, even when you're aware things are in a very precarious position. All we can really do is try to remember what they brought to our lives (beside those, literally), and be happy for all of that, ne?
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Date: 2015-03-25 09:15 pm (UTC)My mother had advanced Alzheimer's. It was just the empty husk of her body that finally died ten days ago. I did not speak to her for her last five years because every time I tried, my sister would jump in and try to get money out of me — she refused to believe that I am no longer the well-off brother she had thirty years ago.
When I was three, my mother had our dog put to death for the crime of obeying me (and not her, for the same order). I never forgave her for that for as long as she lived.
There are very few stories I could tell of my mother being a positive influence on my life. I suppose I could post them at some point.