[lit-ideas] Re: Tune in and turn off

  • From: John Wager <john.wager1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 12:41:42 -0500

David Ritchie wrote:

On Apr 22, 2006, at 9:22 PM, Robert Paul wrote:

    I wrote:
    Peter Sober will tell you how to go on.
    Peter Suber.

I much preferred Sober.


Suber was anything but sober. He's probably one of the few philosophers to ever appear on the Tonight Show, doing what would now be called "stupid people tricks." He made a bit of money in graduate school doing a comic routine about "plunging," which involved an extensive analysis and operation of one or two large toilet plungers. The nomenclature phase of the routine lasted quite a time, especially if you included all of the terms for the dynamics of plunger movements. Ah, memories of graduate school, so many years ago now....


I also like would-be Judge Fun, as in "Colas is a fine candidate, but Fun is a powerhouse." As far as I can tell, Fun is no Neo-Con.

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David Ritchie,
Portland, Oregon

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