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Horse jokes, and some news
Mar. 17th, 2015 03:30 pmA 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.
* * * * *
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.
