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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsLet me put it this way: Have you ever heard of Plato, Aristotle, Socrates?
Morons.
Discuss.
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Let me put it this way: Have you ever heard of Plato, Aristotle, Socrates? (Original Post)
bluesbassman
Jun 2014
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CaliforniaPeggy
(149,791 posts)1. My dear bluesbassman!
I certainly have!
And, many many years ago, I even read their works and studied these philosophers.
I don't remember much of what I did read and study, but I am sure their influence lives inside me even now.
What brought this on?
bluesbassman
(19,385 posts)2. Yes, very influential.
Stick around, it'll become clear in due time.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,791 posts)4. OK, I'll check in from time to time...;)
LWolf
(46,179 posts)5. Psst...
LWolf
(46,179 posts)3. Inconceivable. nt
bluesbassman
(19,385 posts)7. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
LWolf
(46,179 posts)21. I just want you to feel you're doing well.
Aristus
(66,522 posts)6. Truly, you have a dizzying intellect.
bluesbassman
(19,385 posts)8. Wait till I get going! Now, where was I?
kwassa
(23,340 posts)9. It's Greek to me.
Just sayin'.
malthaussen
(17,235 posts)10. A lovely little thinker, but a bugger when he's pissed...
-- Mal
rurallib
(62,478 posts)11. double play combo for the Cubs back in 1906 or something like that?
malthaussen
(17,235 posts)12. Naw, that was Tinker and Evers, not Thinker and Evers... n/t
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)13. Who are those?
Weren't all their things burned at Alexandria? (I kid of course)
Now curious, what brought this on?
bluesbassman
(19,385 posts)14. Rare bit of free time, channel surfing and ran across the Princess Bride.
A most quotable film.
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)15. Weren't they the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?
bluesbassman
(19,385 posts)16. No, they were Picaso, Rembrandt, Dali, and Warhol.
Really they were: Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo and Donatello. Cute pic BTW.
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)17. It's under "so-crates"
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)18. Vezzini!
whistler162
(11,155 posts)19. Plato was that there Disney dog or
was it that planet non planet? The other I ain't not got no idea!
Boom Sound 416
(4,185 posts)20. Toga! Toga! Toga!
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)22. The other brothers were Marlon, Jermaine, and, of course, Michael.