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Old 11-11-2006, 08:29 PM
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Default Re: Best historians\' joke

A group of Philosophers are taking a flight around the world together:
Plato, Aristotle, Thales, Parmenides, Anaximander, Heraclitus, Descartes,
Kant, and Berkeley.

As the flight is preparing to take off, a stewardess asks Parmenides, "I'm
sorry, sir, I think you're in the wrong seat. Could you please move?" He
smiles and answers, "of course," and immediately vanishes from existence.

A stewardess later asks Descartes if he would like something to drink. He
answers, "I think not," and disappears in a puff of logic.

Pushing past Descartes' seat, the stewardess asks Thales if he would like
some water. "No," he answers, "I'm not drinking water—I'm drinking Pepsi."
He immediately disappears.

The stewardess then approaches Anaximander and asks him if he would like
some more wine. "No thank you," he answers with a slight belch. "I've
reached my limit." Suddenly, he vanishes.

Having had too much to drink himself, Heraclitus prepares to get up to go
to the lavatory only to find his legs have fallen asleep. "Oh no!" he
exclaims, "I can't move!" and then he puffs out of existence.

Aristotle, bored out of his mind and looking to cause some mischief, turns
to a melancholy Berkeley and asks him what's wrong. "My mistress has
stopped seeing me," he answers as he slowly fades into nothingness.

Aristotle then turns to Kant and asks if he knows the time. Kant pulls out
his watch and says, "Yes, I do." Immediately, he vanishes as well.

Just then, an announcement comes over the loudspeaker. "This is the
captain. I'm sorry, but our landing will be slightly delayed." Plato
exclaims, "shocking! I had no idea." And then, he is gone.

Aristotle, finding himself all alone, shrugs and says, "no matter," only to
finally blink out of existence himself.
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