Intellectual Discussions Mugs

When Socrates met Plato.

"What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

'Oh yeah? -- Well, I have a theory about you!'

Deepwater Fish

'Interesting theory. Test it on humanity for a generation or two.'

Academics At the Beach

"Now that was post-modern sex."

"Papi, can someone be too smart for their own good?"

Mensa & Densa.

'If you are not deprived, depraved or socially inadequate...then you must be stupid.'

'Even if you do, never admit that you know everything.'

"The way I've got it doped out, postmodern man is all context and fragment."

Professional Couples

Opening arguments would begin after the intimidation round.

'In my experience, for good to triumph over evil, it needs a little help from the NEUTRAL.'

Truth or dare at the philosophy dept.'s lounge

Ed Flanders, Deconstruction Worker

5pm Happy Hour. 6pm discussion: what is true happiness?

Freedom comes at a cost. We must be willing to pay the ultimate price. Retail.

"Strawman argument terrorises conversation... News at eleven."

My belief is if you're old enough to take texts, counter-texts, and meta-texts in Western Philosophy, you should be old enough to drink.

"She's a show dog...purebred, of course." "That's great! My guy's a Sanskrit scholar...wrote for the Harvard Lampoon."

"So, what are you reading?"

"I have good news and bad news about your cat, Dr Schrodinger..."

"Tell me, Chuck, is barbarism the natural state of mankind, and will it ultimately triumph?"

'I'm still not sure HOW it happened. One minute, we were bouncing ideas off each other, and the next thing I knew, we were using furniture instead!'

'What do you mean 'theoretically'? Everything we do is theoretical.'

A book reviewer reads between the margins.

Spelling a newspaper

"The problem is you say Nietzsche and expect everything to be just peachy."

Science Snobs

'To avoid possible schism, a period of careful reflection is needed before changing the light-bulb.'

'As soon as I mention Nietzsche - stop serving me, okay.'

"I don'y know about you guys, but I don't feel like I've lost one goddamn bit of my feminity."

Vladimir Nabokov