[lit-ideas] Re: CIA Admissons Test
- From: wokshevs@xxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 00:06:38 -0230
Yes, as it so happens, the Categorical Imperative was most comprehensively and
systematically articulated by a German. Where would we be without him?
Walter O.
Memorial U
P.S. Another German joke:
A famous metaphysician giving a lecture at Heidelberg:
Gut eevning. Toonaiyt my topeek vil bee "On being just, prudent, courageous, und
vise." I vil not hev eenuff taim to speek on oll ov dese topics, so I vill
focus on only von of dem: I vil speek on "being."
Quoting Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Years ago, a music critic for the Times told me that one as
> a "German" joke. The "German," emblematic of someone
> single-mindedly following orders, beats his mother to death
> with the chair. It's part of a set of similar jokes.
>
>
> During the French Revolution, two Frenchmen and a German are
> sent to the guillotine. The first man sent to the platform
> is a Frenchman. When the rope is pulled, the blade falls,
> only to stop with a thud inches above his neck.
>
> "It is a miracle!" exclaims the Frenchman in the guillotine.
>
> "Indeed it is a miracle!" exclaims the crowd. "Free him."
>
> He is set free, and the other Frenchman is put in his place.
> The same thing happens. The blade stops short of the
> Frenchman's neck. His claim that it is a miracle is echoed
> by the crowd, and he is also freed.
>
> The German is brought forward, and as he ascends the
> platform, he looks up at the guillotine.
>
> "Oh," says the German, "I see what the problem is!"
>
>
>
> From Pennsylvania Dutch Country,
> Eric
>
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