The philosophers song was a popular
Monty Python song rendered ostensibly by a number of cod-Australian university lecturers. They were all called Bruce and taught at the University of Woolloomooloo. (Woolloomooloo is an inner suburb of [Sydney, Australia]
?. There is actually no university there, but there is one at Bruce, a suburb of
Canberra.)
The song itself makes a series of scurrilous allegations against a number of highly respected philosophers, usually with regard to their capacity or incapacity for imbibing intoxicating liquors. Victims included: Immanuel Kant, David Hume and, of course, the utilitarian? John Stuart Mill who, 'of his own free will, on half a pint of shandy was particularly ill'...
An excerpt:
- Immanual Kant was a real pissant
- Who was very rarely stable
- Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar
- Who could drink you under the table
- David Hume could out-consume
- Schoepenhauer and Hegel,
- And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
- Who was just as sloshed as Schlegel!