cheerleaders, buffy, firefly, bad puns, nothing about mail systems, however beer, wine and scotch advocacy welcome

John Costello cos at indeterminate.net
Fri Feb 17 01:27:43 GMT 2006


On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Simon Batistoni wrote:
> On 16/02/06 00:06 +0000, Simon Wistow wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 04:30:42PM -0500, David H. Adler said:
> > > I'm too out of it at the moment to do anything with it, so will someone
> > > please come up with a pun that works with the multiple meanings of
> > > Quine?
> > 
> > I'm sure we can Russell something up.
> > 
> > After all it's the Popper thing to do and we hold you in such high 
> > Kierkegaard. We'd never Derrida you.
> > 
> > On the other hand they do say that punning is the lowest form of 
> > Wit(tgenstein).
> > 
> > Ok, that last one was pushing it, even for me.
> 
> This is a classic london.pm thread. It's making me quite Dewey-eyed
> for the old days when I was still a Londoner.
> 
> But as for that last one, Mr Wistow... there are rules regarding puns,
> and I think you've Bentham too far.

Shall the list be left Lacanic?
Noe. 

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