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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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Speechless. tonque-ted
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So René 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 René 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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