When a visitor to a small village in Yorkshire came upon a wild vicious dog attacking a young boy, he quickly grabbed the animal and throttled it with his two hands.
A reporter saw the incident, congratulated the man and told him the headline the following day would read: Valiant Local Man Saves Child by Killing Vicious Animal.
The hero told the journalist that he wasn't from that village.
"Well, then," the reporter said, "the headline will probably say, Yorkshire Man Saves Child by Killing Dog."
"Actually," the man said, "I'm from Manchester."
"In that case," the reporter said in a huff, "the headline should read, Manc Kills Family Pet."
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Originally Posted by foreverwar
The French existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre was sitting in a cafe when a waitress approached him: "Can I get you something to drink, Monsieur Sartre?"
Sartre replied, "Yes, I'd like a cup of coffee with sugar, but no cream."
Nodding agreement, the waitress walked off to fill the order and Sartre returned to working.
A few minutes later, however, the waitress returned and said, "I'm sorry, Monsieur Sartre, we are all out of cream -- how about with no milk?" |
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Originally Posted by Druchii
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the main proposition of Existentialism is that existence precedes essence, i.e. that a man exists before his existence has value or meaning. Therefore, for JPS to have coffee without something, that something has to exist - there is no cream, so he cannot have the coffee without cream; however, there is milk, so he can (in an existentialist way) have coffee without milk.
I hate having to explain jokes - especially philisophical ones
