Lunch Philosophers Gifts

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

Sally woke up with a headache. This house didn't look familiar. There was a rug burn on her forehead. Three good reasons to quit drinking.

"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?"

"Where's my order!? This service is terrible! That stuff will be cold by the time it gets here!! What's the hold-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.

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

Moral Fruit and Fiber Cereal

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

Toast with faces popped up from toaster.

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

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

"So this sense of failure stems from the fact that you're not catching any worms despite getting up early?"

"It's a calling. Someone has to help feed the less fortunate."

Wow, you're right! Your mom's regurgitated worms are way better than my mom's!

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

"Now dear...remember the sermon on PATIENCE..."

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

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

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

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

"What is friendship if not constant amateurish psychoanalysis?"

Chinese business cuisine.

"Not eating your Cheezies, Miller?"

Somewhere in France: Dr. Hallowell experiments with existentialism

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

"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."

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."

"I forgot to bring my lunch - could I clone yours?"

Atlantis Missing

An awareness of the human condition momentarily held up the breakfast preparations.