Ode to Joy

Thanksgiving

I want to wish everyone a happy Thanksgiving. It’s been a tough year for some of us but we still have much to be thankful for and much to look forward to. I’ve posted this video before, but what could be better on Thanksgiving.

Posted by Tom in classical, Music

Minneapolis

A nice flash mob performance of Beethoven’s Ode to Joy.

Posted by Tom in classical, Music

Beethoven again

This is a nice flash mob presentation of the Ode to Joy at the IDS Crystal Court in Minneapolis.

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ToosDay

Feeling a bit philosophical.

Bertrand Russell: "The meteor wiped out everything, only we philosophers are left!  "
Plato: "This is a great opportunity to finally put our ideas into practice and design a perfect society from scratch!"

Plato: "I think we need a wise, enlightened person to be king, to understand the forms and can guide society to justice. That's why we should pick a philosopher among us to be king. "

PERSON: "Plato, we are all philosophers, how does that help?"

PERSON: "I mean...this is sort of embarrassing, but i mean like...a good philosopher?"

Adam Smith: "Look, no need to complicate things, we just need to all act in our own self interest."
Kropotkin: "Selfishness? That will never work, Adam Smith."
Smith: "Of course it will, Kropotkin!"

Smith: "We just need is a finance system that moves capital away from the unproductive landed gentries who do nothing but collect rents, into the hands of the entrepreneurs and workers who will re-invest it in productive activities."

Smith: "Okay let's start with something simpler. Free trade! Each time we trade both of us benefits. Who wants to trade me something for this muffin?"

Thomas Hobbes, clubbing Smith to death with a rock: "The muffin is mine!"

Kropotkin: "What the hell, Hobbes, what are you doing?!"

Bada Bing!

Covid is no joke. One former patient was so brain-damaged afterward he thought he won an election that he lost by 8 million votes.

A critic wrote a letter to author Flannery O’Conner complaining that “your book left a bad taste in my mouth”.Flannery wrote back, “You weren’t supposed to eat it”.

When I was a little kid we had a sandbox. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child … eventually.

I asked a librarian if she had a book about Pavlov’s dog and Schrodingers cat.She said it rang a bell but she wasn’t sure if it was there or not.

What do you call an indecisive potato? A hesitater.

Trump would have never called anyone a Neanderthal because it has four syllables.

A scientist recently said that the “perfect earthquake” was going to strike the West Coast soon. The evidence to support his claim was on shaky ground.

For the Qanon believers who feel you’re being mocked and ridiculed; it’s not just a feeling.

If you’re ever feeling a little down, take a few minutes and watch this video. It will brighten your day.

Posted by Tom in Humor, Music, World