[MD] Playtpus Joke

[Ian Glendinning]

Hi Dave (you still here ?)
Interesting .... I see Cathcart and Klein have a whole series of books
using philosophical jokes ...

Apart from the one Pirsig-topical joke, what did you think of their
book /writing overall ?

Ian

On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 8:20 PM, David Thomas
<combinedefforts at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Just finished:
>  http://www.amazon.com/Plato-Platypus-Walk-into-Understanding/dp/081091493X
>
> The ending joke (and the lead-in book title) right the before the "Final
> Exam" is this reductio ad absurdum politically incorrect comment on the
> ongoing gender wars.
>
> "Hey, the other day Plato and a platypus walk into a bar. The bartender gave
> the philosopher a quizzical look, Plato said, " She looked better in the
> cave?"
>
> If marriage isn't the moral equivalent of war, I don't know what is.
> Shouldn't everyone get to experience it? Here duckie, duckie, duckie.....
>
> Just though you should know.
>
> Dave
>
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