Lunch Hour Philosopher Gifts

"I recommend the businessman's lunch, sir, mammon notwithstanding."

"I'd go with French Impressionist. It evokes the burnished golds of autumn leaves and the bittersweet regrets of lost love. It's also on special."

"Is this a bad time for our feedback meeting?"

"I believe in the carrot-and-stick approach, Dempsey."

"Honey, wake up. I had that dream again where I wake up and you get angry at me for waking you up."

'How do you want your eggs, too hard or too soft?'

Starving Philosophy student grappling with the question of the toast in the machine.

"Someday, son, a giant conglomerate will find a way to harness the moonlight and make us pay for it."

"Sorry no half portions - at least that's the quantum theory."

"I get a fresh food kit delivered for lunch. All I need to do is chop, cook, and enjoy!"

Moral Fruit and Fiber Cereal

Thoughts of Stephen Harper...

Toast with faces popped up from toaster.

Sugar-coated riboflavin yellow #5 fructose surbosic-carboblutonic flakes.

"None of this news seems 'fit to print' to me!"

"Yes, Jamie -- you have an insight?"

"I swear, Eddie, you ought to be on with Bill Moyers."

'We tried hunting and we tried gathering, but now we usually eat out.'

'We only get an hour for lunch, so your best bet is to brown-bag it.'

"See, Timmy? No boogeymen under your bed — they're all out there."

"At lunchtime Dr. Jones just loves taking union talk with his fellow brothers."

"I got the bagel less everythinged, and that has made all the difference."

'Sometimes I think you don't listen to a word I say!'

Chinese business cuisine.

"Ask not for whom the refrigerator hums..."

'I quit drinking coffee with lunch - it was keeping me awake all afternoon.'

"Talk doesn't cook rice...but it does make it more enjoyable!"

A man dreams of a snake

'The newspaper strike hasn't affected you at all, has it?'

Somewhere in France: Dr. Hallowell experiments with existentialism

"Not eating your Cheezies, Miller?"

Fatalism and the Seeds of Doubt

"I started my vegetarianism for health reasons, then it became a moral choice, and now it's just to annoy people."

'You think I don't like oatmeal predicated on the fact that I haven't had it in forty-seven years but there is no substantial reason based solely on breakfast choices I might have made in front of or to you for you to make that assumption.'