Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . .: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes Paperback Author: Visit Amazon's Thomas Cathcart Page | Language: English | ISBN:
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“The zaniest bestseller of the year.”—The Boston Globe
“I laughed, I learned, I loved it.”—Roy Blount, Jr.
About the Author
Tom Cathcart and Daniel Klein pursued the usual careers after majoring in philosophy at Harvard. Tom worked with street gangs in Chicago, doctors at Blue Cross and Blue Shield, and dropped in and out of various divinity schools. He lives with his wife on Cape Cod. Dan has written jokes for various comedians including Flip Wilson and Lily Tomlin. He lives with his wife in the Berkshires. Together, they are authors of the politically incorrect book of daily affirmations,
Macho Meditations.
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- Paperback: 215 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books; Reprint edition (June 24, 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0143113879
- ISBN-13: 978-0143113874
- Product Dimensions: 7.1 x 4.9 x 0.6 inches
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Ok, I admit it, I was one of those flyballs with disheveled hair in college who spewed paragraphs from Sophie's World and felt warm and fuzzy about it. Over the years, sanity would prevail and I'd adjust my diet to include relatively more benign doses of, say, Woody Allen's satire (e.g., Without Feathers, which has among the best essays I have ever read on philosophy, with tongue firmly in cheek). But it is difficult to find a book with which I could perpetuate that passion and inflict it on my Regular Bloke buddies and be assured that it'd actually be read.
Well, this peppy little compilation of jokes might just be that perfect gift item. It takes philosophy to task with such flair and gusto that I nearly read it from cover to cover, not like one is supposed to savor a joke book--in sporadic doses, flicking random pages. The jokes are absolutely spot-on, definitely beyond your average "my karma ran over your dogma" variety, and often give a whole new meaning to the term "wisecrack". For instance, a Buddhist walks up to a hot-dog stand and says, "Make me one with everything". He then pays the vendor and asks for change. The vendor says, "change comes from within". This is not the funniest one, mind you, just one of the brief ones that a lazy codger such as myself will take the time to reproduce.
But the romp is not merely for laughs.
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