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Did they start at the top and work down?
and Were numbers worth less back in ancient times?
If you want to talk about Russian Soviet vegetables, we can, he says.
Sometimes, the wayCunk on Earthsubverts this formula is by being deceptively smart.
Sorry, that wasnt a question, she clarifies.
Im literally asking if you could call him the first celebrity victim of cancel culture for our show.
To go viral, her show needs to reduce hot-button issues to zippy sound bites, after all.
You know how philosophers have these thoughts, and they try and push these thoughts through these pipes?
she asks a weary-looking Hedley.
Hedleys expression softens as the question progresses.
Thats a very interesting way of describing two general tendencies in philosophy, he replies.
Your characterization is, in fact, a rather intriguing delineation of two major strands in current philosophy.
All of that from an unacknowledged poop joke.
What happens if they say, Heres a chicken.
You eat this, or we kill another chicken?
he lobs at them.
But none of this is the product of happenstance.
Beethoven wrote that song that goes Dum-dum-dum-dum.
Dum-dum-dum-dum, she says, humming the composers Symphony No.
What do those lyrics mean?
… Its just the word dumb over and over again.
Unlike Beethoven, it has some respect for its audience.
