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St. Thomas Aquinas: Famous for writing … a rational man could confuse himself into a religious revelry.
“Revelry”?!?!? I thot they said “revery”! Man, all this time I’ve been doing it wrong!
John Just found your site and have been laughing my ass off. Keep it up.
i want to go back to school. soon, when the toddler is in kendy.
"Sartre: Important, but why should we care?"
Ohoho….This is awesome. Simply awesome.
Not that I care….
Yeah, I'm going to steal that for my Facebook status.
Um. Hello. I can hear you. I\’m right here.
I thought liberal arts was bongin' up on some bad-ass smoke and rendering nudes of Reid and Pelosi in unappetizing variations of coital crypticity. Oh well wha'd'ya expect from some dildork that only spent a couple of semesters in junior college?
I changed my nom de plum. An original PelosiReid nude to whoever guesses who I used to be.
Hah! I'll bear that in mind.
I am a college student. Thankfully I have endured philosophy already, and now face the Lit classes. That is if I pass psychology. Silly me deciding that an English based degree was a wonderful idea.
Then there is my serious side
Curtis & Leroy saw an ad in the Starkville Daily News Newspaper in Starkville, MS.
And bought a mule for $100.
The farmer agreed to deliver the mule the next day.
The next morning the farmer drove up and said, "Sorry, fellers, I have some bad news,
The mule died last night."
Curtis &Leroy replied, "Well, then just give us our money back."
The farmer said, "Can't do that. I went and spent it already."
They said, "OK then, just bring us the dead mule."
The farmer asked, "What in the world ya'll gonna do with a dead mule?"
Curtis said, "We gonna raffle him off."
The farmer said, "You can't raffle off a dead mule!"
Leroy said, "We shore can! Heck, we don't hafta tell nobody he's dead!"
A couple of weeks later, the farmer ran into Curtis & Leroy at the Piggly Wiggly
Grocery store and asked:
"What'd you fellers ever do with that dead mule?"
They said, "We raffled him off like we said we wuz gonna do."
Leroy said, "Shucks, we sold 500 tickets fer two dollars apiece and made a
Profit of $898."
The farmer said,"My Lord, didn't anyone complain?"
Curtis said, "Well, the feller who won got upset. So we gave him his
Two dollars back."
Curtis and Leroy now work for the government.
The Old Monk
A new monk arrives at the monastery. He is assigned to help the other monks in copying the old texts by hand.
He notices, however, that they are copying copies, not the original books. So, the new monk goes to the head monk to ask him about this. He points out that if there were an error in the first copy, that error would be continued in all of the other copies.
The head monk says "We have been copying from the copies for centuries, but you make a good point, my son." So, he goes down into the cellar with one of the copies to check it against the original.
Hours later, nobody has seen him. So, one of the monks goes downstairs to look for him. He hears a sobbing coming from the back of the cellar, and finds the old monk leaning over one of the original books crying. He asks what's wrong.
The old monk sobs, "The word is celebrate."
Oh, that is good.
that is good, i'm stealing that
john why cant i post>?
Yep – agree with John guy – once in a while you have to just not take yourself so seriously. A little levity would be good.
Tell a joke once in a while – the one about the Rabbi and the…no maybe not that one.
The one about the Lawyer and the priest…no, maybe not that one either.
Hey – I know – ask profound questions like, "Before the invention of the compass did people have a moral sextant?"
Here's me, testing the comments section to this post.
I love you, John. Keep up the good work, man. But don't be so serious all the time. Have you ever thought about writing anything humorous?
that's what I was going to say!
hey, btw. I figured out how to use the comments; it's simple! Except that the text on my computer is now microscopic, I think I'm going to like this. Are you still awake?
Is that still happening, with the small text? That's … weird/not good.