Three things that made me laugh today
First, a joke from those two knuckleheads on Car Talk, discussing a book called Philomedy, which explains philosophy by telling jokes:
Aristotle, Plato and Descartes are on a plane. The flight attendant comes by to take their drink orders. She asks Aristotle if he’d like a beverage. Aristotle says, “I’ll have a ginger ale.”
“And how about you, Mr. Plato?”
Plato says “Diet Coke, please.”
She says, “and Mr. Descartes, anything to drink for you?”
Descartes says, “I think not,” and disappears.
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Second thing: Do you know what cigarette your doctor smokes? – a great collection of TV cigarette commercials with commentary by a surgical oncologist with a wry sense of humor.
Third thing is no funnier than giant corporations selling addictive carcinogens with happy jingles, but still mining a rich vein of dark humor: How ‘bout them 350,000 names on the no-fly list? I could imagine an Al-Queda mole undermining the effectiveness of the list by making sure it has 350,000 names on it.
UPDATE: Maybe that no-fly list really isn’t funny, since according to Leonard Boyle, director of the FBI’s terrorist screening center, it can be used for hiring too. With that many names it is a given that most are “false positives” and they may find their employment prospects curtailed.