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Whittgenstein - Dick Whittington's German philospher cousin? - and I disappear in a puff of overstretched extrapolation...Quasi cummi sim elasticum, tuque gluten es, omnia quae blateras, a me resilientia haerent ad te! (in other words) I'm rubber, you're glue; bounces off me, sticks on you!  But be careful Capfka, Dick Whittington is the the pantomime hero of Englishmen who have nothing to say. 
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Be careful there, or you will be accused of putting Descartes before de Horace.
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But be careful Capfka, Dick Whittington is the the pantomime hero of Englishmen who have nothing to say.
Yes they do. "Turn again."
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So Ren� Descartes walks into a bar and the bartender asks him, "Would you like a beer?" ... [And] Descartes says, "I think not," and disappears in a puff of logic.To which the standard response is: "Didn't God Vanish in a puff of logic somewhere in the "Hitch hikers guide to the galaxy"?" Check here for come-back: http://ozgrid.com/forum/showthread.php?p=123606#post123606Re And extra credit for the first to report the logical fallacy in my Ren� Descartes walks into a bar jokeIt's not your Rene Descartes joke. That's the "logical fallacy". Ante up, Faldage. I'm going to enjoy that "extra credit".
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"Turn again", Capfka??? Anyway, here are a few Descartes caricatures of some of the frequent posters to Awad; rather, the posters that I don't think will take offence and get boiling mad. Faldage: I think; therefore I'm a library.Wordwind: I think and act clearly and cleanly; therefore the Universe is murky and strange.Consuello: I think in Spanish; therefore the World is a Fandango. AnnaStrophic: I think only good thoughts; therefore a sharp pen is my yin. The long gone Grapho: I think with my biology; therefore [ >> Paris Hilton<<]The great WWH: I think today: therefore I'm a time machine. Wanna take a trip?tsuwm; I think; therefore I am Dictionaries.But what I do when I think is more precisely defined in... OED third edition, 1886, p. 996-97 3rd. para.
def. (#7), nexus Brt. P.432 1842 & Adm pp 348-49 1864
Oxford Press London, England: copyright pending.Musick: I think; therfore the music sometimes gets in the way. Jackie: I think; but if you wish we'll vote. But sometimes I just wonder...can't we all just get along? 
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I think; therefore I'm a library.
Ooh. I like it, Mile. I think I'll use it in Latin.
COGITO ERGO BIBLIOTHECA SVM
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Milo: I think to confound and amuse; therefore, follow me through my labyrinth dressed in a multitude of suspended facts enough to choke a horse, except the horse can't fit inside here.
...love what you said about tsuwm. He'll be so pleased he might even smile!
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just letting you know, i think it was thoughtless for you to forget me!
or is it that you think i am thoughless (that is, do you think i don't think, (or don't think up to your standand?) ergo i am not worth being teased?
i'm going off to a corner to pout, and think about what i can do about this..
(maybe i'll start a food thread)
my feelings aren't really hurt--and i loved your what you did--great fun! what about you? how do you fit in?
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...Descartes said haughtily, "Beer? I think not!" and -pouf!- he disappeared!
Logical fallacy:
The opposite of "A implies B" is not "not-A implies not-B" (isn't that the contrapositive?) but "B and not-A", which here is equivalent to "I am, but I'm not thinking!"
But fallacy, shmallacy. It makes a much better joke this way.
Do I make my point?
And while we're on the subject of what is and what isn't consider this:
AIN'T IT ISN'T
It�s is not, it isn�t ain�t, and it�s it�s, not its, if you mean it is. If you don�t, it�s its. Then too, it�s hers. It isn�t her�s. It isn�t our�s either. It�s ours, and likewise yours and theirs.
-- Oxford University Press, Express News (sorry I don't have a date for that)
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