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- Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 14:29:25 -0500 (EST)
- From: Paul Giverin <paul@giverin.co.uk>
- Organization: best of usenet humor
- Newsgroups: alt.humor.best-of-usenet
- Subject: [free.uk.pets.cats] Re: Philosophies and felines
-
- Subject: Re: Philosophies and felines
- From: "Miss L. Toe" <missltoemissltoe@hotmail.com>
- Newsgroups: free.uk.pets.cats, uk.rec.humour
-
- The top-poster would spend 3 days looking in the attic for the cat while
- everyone else was looking in the cellar.
-
- "Tony P." <tp.ictgap@btinternet.com> wrote in message
- news:boc36n$efg$1@sparta.btinternet.com...
- > The economist would hide the cat; bringing it out tomorrow, blaming the
- > mouse on the interest rate hike; saying it was for the good of the group.
- >
- > "Miss L. Toe" <missltoemissltoe@hotmail.com> wrote in message
- > news:boc1fc$1d36o4$1@ID-201440.news.uni-berlin.de...
- > >
- > > "Muttley" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
- > > news:bobcfi$g2e$1@news6.svr.pol.co.uk...
- > > > A philosopher is defined as a blind man in an unlit cellar at midnight
- > > > searching for a black cat that isn't there.
- > > >
- > > > A theologian is identical in all respects save that he believes he
- > > > has found the cat.
- > > >
- > > > A lawyer, naturally, would smuggle the cat under his coat, in order
- > > > to brandish it theatrically when it best serves his purpose.
- > > >
- > > > A scientist would accept the non-existence of the cat, but be at
- > > > pains to point out that its non-existence could only ever be
- > > > assumed; never proven.
- > > >
- > > > An engineer would briefly search for a cat, and then employ his
- > > > time more productively by constructing a superior cat replacement
- > > > from the materials available in the cellar.
- > > >
- > > > A soldier would shoot the cat to protect the liberty of the mouse,
- > > > unless he was American, in which case he would conduct a shock and
- > > > awe campaign to win the heart and mind of the cat, and (in the
- > > > process) accidentally shoot the mouse.
- > >
- > > A quantum physicist would say that the cat was both in the cellar
- > > and not in the cellar at the same time, but its existence/or not
- > > was only true or false if/when it was/or wasn't observed.
-
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