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I guess I still don't understand how it was a joke. But then my sense of humor took a serious hit when I realized the René Descartes walked in to a bar joke relied on a logical fallacy.
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the René Descartes walked in to a bar joke Is that the one where he walks in in front of his horse? Anna, it's nice to see your fonts again. 
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>the René Descartes walked in to a bar joke
more likely the one where the bartender asks if he wants a drink, he says, "I think not", and disappears.
-joe (yet another philosophy joke) friday
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 But I'm deeply disappointed with Faldage not being able to show some appreciation for 'for whom the bell tolls'. You don't need to call it a joke, but it is an amusing observation.
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>the René Descartes walked in to a bar joke
more likely the one where the bartender asks if he wants a drink, he says, "I think not", and disappears.
-joe (yet another philosophy joke) friday I always wondered the coordinates of the drunken fart's last engagement.
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perforce, lyrics to The Philosopher's Drinking Song :
Immanuel Kant was a real piss-ant who was very rarely stable.
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar who could think you under the table. ..
David Hume could out-consume Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine who was just as sloshed as Schlegel.
There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach 'ya 'bout the raising of the wrist.
Socrates, himself, was permanently pissed.
John Stuart Mill, of his own free will, after 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,
And 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.
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Would they not posthumeously take this as a sort of  an insult? All of their drunken spirits will haunt me in my dreams. Because I LAUGHED.
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But I'm deeply disappointed with Faldage not being able to show some appreciation for 'for whom the bell tolls'. You don't need to call it a joke, but it is an amusing observation. I am, too, and he's my husband. 
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I am, too, and he's my husband. Good to know. I was wondering whether (and hoping) you'll were still together.
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I've been wondering: is this Avy* from long ago and far away?!
*last posted ca. 2005
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