COMMENSAL ISSUE 91
The Newsletter of the Philosophical Discussion Group
Of British Mensa
ARTICLES
THE PHILOSOPHER'S SONG
(MONTY PYTHON)
Picking up on a point from C89/30.7, I decided to hunt out the text of Monty Python’s famous song, a matter of 30 seconds searching using Yahoo!, with key-words ‘Python’, ‘Philosopher’ & ‘Drink’ producing a direct hit at Website http://www.laughnet.net, at URL
http://www.laughnet.net/archive/misc/monty3.htm.
The immortal text reads :-
Immanuel Kant was a real pissant
Who was very rarely stable.
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar
Who could think you under the table.
David Hume could out-consume
Schopenhauer and Hegel,
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
Who was just as schloshed as Schlegel.
There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach ya
'Bout the raising of the wrist.
John Stuart Mill, of his own free will,
On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill.
Plato, they say, could stick it away
Half a crate of whiskey every day.
Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle,
Hobbes was fond of his dram,
And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart:
"I drink, therefore I am"
Yes, Socrates, himself, is particularly missed;
A lovely little thinker but a bugger when he's pissed!
This site also contains the full script of other Python classics, including (The Meaning of Life) and (The Life of Brian ), and much else besides.
Anyone care to delve into the philosophy of humour ? Why is the above funny (if it is) ? Does it matter that most of those who heard it on the original show had never heard of half the philosophers mentioned, let alone knew what they taught. Does this matter ?
Theo Todman
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