Lunch Line Philosopher Gifts

"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?"

'Jim's blogging his thought for the day. He doesn't have any profound thoughts, he just has one thought per day.'

"I didn't realize there was so many different kinds of vegetables!"

Office Canteen: 'Getting in a consultant is win-win for us... we'll get the credit if it's a success - but, if it all goes wrong, we've got someone else to blame!'

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

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

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

'The doctor said my body is 40% fat. These cookies are only 20% fat. That's got to help.'

Toast with faces popped up from toaster.

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

"Hi Mike, how's the Leprosy research going?"

Moral Fruit and Fiber Cereal

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

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

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

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

"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.

"What is friendship if not constant amateurish psychoanalysis?"

Paranormal tips: sandwiches with crop circles may lead to marmalade stains on trousers

"Carl had the mouth of a truck driver... Sorry, Carl, I just can't make no sense from all those words comin’ out your pie hole. A truck driver with a Ph.D. in mathematical logic."

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

"Not eating your Cheezies, Miller?"

Somewhere in France: Dr. Hallowell experiments with existentialism

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.'

"I don't know, sweetheart. Perhaps Daddy can tell us if chickens have souls."