Invizzible's Thread About Nothing

Do you remember calling the bowling alley and asking the man who answered the phone if he had 16 pound balls? It was a struggle to ask, "Then how do you walk?" before busting up laughing!

Then there are the age-old classics. "Is your refrigerator running?" "Do you have Prince Albert in a can?"

My personal favorite is calling someplace and asking for Hugh Jass. ("Is there a Hugh Jass here?")

Or asking a man to page for Amanda Huggenkiss. "I need Amanda Huggenkiss! Can I get Amanda Huggenkiss? Anyone?")

(I also have another favorite posted HERE.)

So, anybody else have some good ones you've pulled, or had pulled on you?

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Oh!!! A new thread!! How exciting!!
Although, to follow suit (RE: the thread's subject) this post of mine is about absolutely nothing!!
THat's right nothing... but is it now about something, since it's about nothing?
I'm confused

I like your thinking Twin. I feel relieved to know there is another person out there besides me who understand the concept of nothing, and how much fun it can be! It brings to mind the whole "Cogito ergo sum" thing, doesn't it?

The who? Cogito what?

Famously, Descartes holds that the occurrence of thought guarantees the existence of a thinker. A version of this insight appears in every published work in which he treats scepticism--unlike the canonical slogan, ‘cogito ergo sum’ (‘je pense, donc je suis’, ‘I think therefore I am’). As illustrated early in the Second Meditation, the purported insight has it that though the existence of my body is subject to doubt, the existence of me--qua thinker--looks to withstand even the most hyperbolic of doubts: let the evil genius "deceive me as much as he can, he will never bring it about that I am nothing so long as I think that I am something" (AT 7:25). The very attempt to doubt one's own existence turns out self-stultifying: every such effort is an occurrence of thought; in turn, the occurrence of thought requires a thinker, albeit only a minimally construed thinker. Descartes regards the cogito (as I shall refer to it) as the "first and most certain of all to occur to anyone who philosophizes in an orderly way" (Prin. 1.7, AT 8a:7).

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So I'm a poindexter.

ummm.....poindexter???.....ok....that's a nice way of putting it....hehehhe

I dunno 'bout Descartes... Some of mmy random thoughts are barely worthy of merit beyond the walls of my mind...

like the "what if" scenarios.... I mean.. I can entertain myself for hours with a simple "what if"... I mentioned my like for audiobooks (in another thread)... I'll have to find the publisher - but I listened to a book entitled "what if" that was a collection of essays written by historians pondering the what if's of modern history... it was one of those that you listened to everything twice to catch the nuances.

Car time is dead time to me... hubby always wants to install satellite radio in my car (he is a BIG fan), but there is ALWAYS music in my head - I'd rather have entertainment ala novels or KNOWLEDGE being poured into my brain while I drive...

uhoh.... Joel just pooed.... I'd better stop rambling in my train of thought manner....

Wait... before I do... sometime read a Winnie the Pooh book... Pooh works entirely on the train of thought system indicative of the average 3 year old's mind... just another random fact...

I like the whole 'fill my head with knowledge' stuff. Reading is good cerebral exercise. I like to learn while I'm being lazy, too, so I like to spend couch time watching the Discovery channels and history channels, too.

I couldn't do the satellite radio thing. I like to listen to exactly the song I want when I want it. That's why I burn so many CDs. I have gigs upon gigs of my favorites, always with me so I can listen to whatever songs match my mood at the moment.

Originally Posted by jeaniesing

sometime read a Winnie the Pooh book... Pooh works entirely on the train of thought system indicative of the average 3 year old's mind... just another random fact...

Have you seen (or read) the book 'The Tao of Pooh'? I read it a while back, it's cute, but spiritual
here's a link to some quotes

Oh no!! the thread about nothing certainly turned into SOMETHING!!!

"Hey, that's really something!"

Originally Posted by Invizzible

I like the whole 'fill my head with knowledge' stuff. Reading is good cerebral exercise. I like to learn while I'm being lazy, too, so I like to spend couch time watching the Discovery channels and history channels, too..

mmHmmm... I don't complain about the sat. TV.... more educational channels... my current fave is "megastructures"... dunno why... "mythbusters" was - until they ran a marathon and I saw 'em all :P....



I haven't seen that Pooh book... Sounds more interesting than most , I've never been a fan of the pre-fab characters....

Megastructures is pretty cool. Mythbusters is good, too. I love some of the urban legends they debunk. Some of the things they do are so silly, and when you see them apply science to a legend or rumor it makes it even sillier. I especially like the one where they tried to make a car 'pole vault' with its own drive shaft by breaking the U-joints. Those are my kinda people, definately.

I love the Saturday morning educational stuff. I watch as much of it as I can, whenever I can.

Teen Titans
Scooby Doo
RugRats
Justice League
The New Jonny Quest (Not as good as the original, but not bad)
Avatar (my current favorite)
Looney Toons
Bugs and Daffy
Spongebob (Lots and Lots of the square dude - Have a three year old son)
Dora

Originally Posted by jeaniesing

"mythbusters" was - until they ran a marathon and I saw 'em all :P....

Last weekend?? . i was watching that all day, some interesting stuff on it!

But we have satellite and mostly i watch the doc. channels and the music.
You're always going to find someting worth watching on the doc. channels!