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 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.) |
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! |
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'...
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