Topic: A Self Evident Truth. Our discussion continues.

Professor Donald Johansson:  "Australopithecus afarensis"

Richard Leakey:  "I, too, am convinced that our ancestors came from Africa."

Eldridge Cleaver:  "Black is Beautiful"

Professor Harold Hill:  "Ya got trouble, Right here in River city! With a capital "T" And that rhymes with "P" And that stands for Pool."

L. Hubbard:  "Criminally insane paranoid?  Would you like to see my etchings?"

Church Lady:  "Could it be.....Satan!"

Ron Howard:  "Gary, Indiana!"

Khrushchev:  "We will bury you."

Anonymous FBI agent:  "Yeah, I can understand your feeling the need to kidnap your own daughter.  It was a nasty set of divorces!  Polygamy.   Losing custody and all.  Hard to erase those memories?"

Lt Colombo:  "Oh, Just one more thing.   Why did you take her to Cuba?  KGB?  Fidel?  Casinos?  DesiLu?  George Raft?  Monroe Doctrine?  Friends of yours?"

Anonymous FBI agent:  "The locked cage in the jungle, that's not as easy to understand.  Not exactly a place to keep you daughter if you had gotten custody."

Nicholas Cage:  "Did you see 'National Treasure?'"

George Clooney:  "Gary Coleman."

Lt Colombo:  "Were you paranoid that somebody might kidnap her?"

Beach Boys:  "Off the Florida Keys, there's a place called Kokomo."

Ed Koch:  "He is a crook, but I like him.... Most politicians still like De Sapio. He always gets the most applause when he is introduced at Democratic dinners."

Richard Nixon:  "Well, I'm not a crook!"

Thomas Jefferson: "The object of your mission is to explore the Missouri river; & such principal stream of it, as by its course & communication with the waters of the Pacific Ocean, may offer the most direct & practicable water communication across this continent, for the purpose of commerce."

Topic: A Self Evident Truth. Our discussion continues.

Professor Donald Johansson:  "Australopithecus afarensis"

Richard Leakey:  "I, too, am convinced that our ancestors came from Africa."

Eldridge Cleaver:  "Black is Beautiful"

Professor Harold Hill:  "Ya got trouble, Right here in River city! With a capital "T" And that rhymes with "P" And that stands for Pool."

L. Hubbard:  "Criminally insane paranoid?  Would you like to see my etchings?"

Church Lady:  "Could it be.....Satan!"

Ron Howard:  "Gary, Indiana!"

Khrushchev:  "We will bury you."

Anonymous FBI agent:  "Yeah, I can understand your feeling the need to kidnap your own daughter.  It was a nasty set of divorces!  Polygamy.   Losing custody and all.  Hard to erase those memories?"

Lt Colombo:  "Oh, Just one more thing.   Why did you take her to Cuba?  KGB?  Fidel?  Casinos?  DesiLu?  George Raft?  Monroe Doctrine?  Friends of yours?"

Anonymous FBI agent:  "The locked cage in the jungle, that's not as easy to understand.  Not exactly a place to keep you daughter if you had gotten custody."

Nicholas Cage:  "Did you see 'National Treasure?'"

George Clooney:  "Gary Coleman."

Lt Colombo:  "Were you paranoid that somebody might kidnap her?"

Beach Boys:  "Off the Florida Keys, there's a place called Kokomo."

Ed Koch:  "He is a crook, but I like him.... Most politicians still like De Sapio. He always gets the most applause when he is introduced at Democratic dinners."

Richard Nixon:  "Well, I'm not a crook!"

Thomas Jefferson: "The object of your mission is to explore the Missouri river; & such principal stream of it, as by its course & communication with the waters of the Pacific Ocean, may offer the most direct & practicable water communication across this continent, for the purpose of commerce."

Dr Carl Sagan:  “We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."

Phil:  "My thoughts exactly.  We are The Physics of Music, The Universal Laws of Nature, The Cosmic Consciousness of the Multiverse waking up to give itself a breast exam, galactically speaking, of course."

Neil deGrasse Tyson:  "After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?"

Galileo:  “The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the Universe to do.”    

Edwin Hubble:  "I can see clearly now!"

Ben Franklin:  "The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself."

Phil:  "One may wish to ascribe a greater purpose to Life." 

Sam:  "Protons must have their quarks. That no one can deny."

Topic: A Self Evident Truth. Our discussion continues.

Ben Franklin:  "Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her."

William Congreve:  "Heaven hath no rage like love to hatred turned, nor Hell a fury than a woman scorned."

Carl Jung:  "The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed."

Phil:  "Love is a charitable assertion of magnanimous selfishness, synergistically speaking, especially when perpetrated with a smile. Apparently quite effective for propagating the species!  And why not?  Life is such a lovely, delicate biochemical expression of dynamic dimensional equilibrium at this magnification of the ununified field, with such an innate genetic appetite for molecular self-replication, who wouldn't think her quarks are astonishing?  Simply electric!  The universe has a personality!"

Anonymous 1:  "No it doesn't!"

Anonymous 2:  "Yes it does!"

R. Buckminster Fuller:  "Love is metaphysical gravity."

Robert Teller:  Spontaneous Combustion. 

Robert Oppenheimer:  Fusion!

Shirley Jones:  "There were birds in the sky, but I never saw them winging, no I never saw them at all, till there was you."

Timothy Leary:  "What's she on?"

Richard Avedon:  "Picture yourself in a pink submarine in the river of Spacetime."

Roy Rodgers and Dale Evans:  "Happy trails to you, until we meet again."

Albert Einstein:  "Gravitational lensing!"

Fred Astaire:  "He loves and she loves."

Eric Schmidt:  "Give me a minute."

Phil:  "Would you like that in an electron volt credit?"

Yogi Berra:  "It's déjà vu all over again."

Topic: A Self Evident Truth

Phil: Thanks for being here, Ed.  Why don't you get us started.

Edward R Murrow: "The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer."

Phil:  So, what is the likelihood, if eternity is the only possibility, that there is only one odd, statistically speaking?"

Steve Allen:  I used to be a heavy gambler. But now I just make mental bets. That's how I lost my mind."

Phil:  "Existence rules out the possibility of Non-existence. Non-existence already ruled itself out."

A. True or False

B. True

Will Rogers:  Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it."

Phil:  "Well, if I were to give you a clean sheet of paper and a pencil and asked you to represent "All Things" and "Nothing," what would you do?"

A.  Nothing

B.  Something Else. Anything. Please.

B.  What's the alternative?

Robert Prechter:  “There's nothing wrong with cash. It gives you time to think.”

Phil:  "Alright, the first rule of Real Estate:  Location, location, location!    So, The Big Bang!  Did you get the spacetime?  Well let's not forget the rest of the 5 W's.

Albert Einstein “The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.”

Phil:  "Ah huh. Once I tried to count to infinity.  Then I realized that by the time I got half way I'd still have another infinity to go.  So I stopped.  I figured I didn't have enough time for this.  And there was probably something else I should be doing.  Talk about spinning your wheels and getting nowhere fast!   Boy, was I glad I stopped.   Then I heard about Einstein's rocket thought experiment.  Maybe with the right technology, though, it might be possible after all.  I was further encouraged by the knowledge that infinity to the infinite power is still only infinity."

Galileo:  “I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”

Phil:  "Then I became a playboy."

Church Lady:  "Well isn't that special!"

Phil:  And by the time I was 37, I actually had my own subscription.

George Washington Carver:  "Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom." 

Phil:  "Google is to the world wide web as the Collective Consciousness of Life on Earth is to_______?"

A. Sex

B. The Universe

C. The Multiverse

D. God

E. Adam's apple

Topic: A Self Evident Truth

Ben Franklin:  "There was never a good war, or a bad peace."

Neil Armstrong:  "That's one small step for Man, one giant leap for Mankind."

Norm:  "Skoal!"

Martin (The Geico Gecko):  "Anthropomorphically speaking!  Right."

John Lennon:  "Imagine all the people living life in peace."

George Washington:  "My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth."

Phil:   "A MultiVerse Cinerama CinePlex is kinda like a google plex but with infinite universes instead of alot of numbers."

Ilsa:  "Play it, Sam.  Play "As Time Goes By.'"

Sam:  "It's still the same old story, a fight for love and glory.  A case of do or die.  Fundamental particles apply, space-time goes by."

Dr Carl Sagan:  "We are made of star stuff."

Michael Jackson:  "We are the ones that make a brighter day..."

Bernie Goldberg:  "This is a big story."

Dan Rather:  "Ka Ka Ka Courage."

Geoffery O'Hara:  "K K K Katy."

Anonymous:  "More powerful than a locomotive."

Joe Biden:  "This is a big fucking deal!"

Phil:  "The Greatest Story Ever Told!"

Erique Claudin  "I can make you a star!"

Phil: "Harry Kerry Larry Wins."

Jason Robards:  "Woodstein!"

Phil:  "Did you question Mark?"

G. Gordon Liddy:  "Invest in gold."

Mickey Dolenz:  "Take the Last Train to Clarksville"

Phil:  "Roysie Boysie Tootsie Noisey"

Aretha Franklin:  "R E S P E C T"

Phil:  "Mo Jo Ho Jo Go Go"

Grace Slick:  "Go ask Alice, I think she'll know.  When logic and proportion..."

Phil:  "Glenn's Pens Bend's Ends"

Gloria Steinem:  "Logic is in the eye of the logician."

Phil:  "Courts Ports Morts Swartz"

Lois Lane:  "Clark!"

Phil:  "Phoney Tony Maloney Baloney"

Grace Slick:  "Remember what the dormouse said:  'Feed your head"

Phil:  "Food for thought?"

Annie Oakley:  "Yes I can."

Phil:  "How about eightish?"

Martin (The Geico Gecko):  "Oh dear."

Phil:  "All things considered, what's the alternative?"

Yoda:  "May the force be with you."

Phil:  "Yo Yo."

Edward R. Murrow:  "Sadly, it seems, we are entering a new era of Charlie McCarthyism."

Martin (The Geico Gecko):  "Right.  Charlie McCarthyism.  What are you saying exactly?"

Edward R Murrow:  "One has to wonder, finally, why the best ideas fail to win in our Great Debate."

Topic: What is a Self Evident Truth?

Anne Hathaway:  "You remind me of the man."

William Shakespeare: "What man?"

Anne Hathaway:  "The man with the power."

William Shakespeare:  "What power?"

Anne Hathaway:  "The power of woohoo." 

William Shakespeare:  "Woohoo?" 

Anne Hathaway:  "Yoohoo."

William Shakespeare:  "Oh Hello bb, brb."

Nick Bottom:  "Methinks I was enamored of an ass."

Hannity:  "You have a way with words."

Jerry Falwell:  “The whole (global warming) thing is created to destroy America's free enterprise system and our economic stability."

Phil:  "The planet Venus, named after the Goddess of Love, turns out to be a very hot, mean place for life as we know it."

Bill Nye, the Science Guy:  "If you want to get serious about it, these guys claiming that the snow in Washington disproves climate change are almost unpatriotic.  It‘s really they‘re denying science."

Phil:  "The sun is even hotter."

Dick Van Dyke: "Gray skies are gonna clear up, Put on a happy face."

The Walrus:  "goo goo g'joob g'goo goo g'joob."

Bob Anderson:  "Good job!"

John:  "And of course Henry the Horse dances the waltz."

Phil:  "A dictionary is actually a thesaurus."

Paul:  "Will you still feed me, will you still need me, when I'm sixty four."

William Shakespeare:  "That to be heaven Anne hath a way; She hath a way."

Robert Graves:  "A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good."

Phil:  "I'm not a big fan of profanity. There are just too many commonly unused words in the dictionary.  To wit, psychobabble's co-dependency in denial augurs an extrasomatic mephitic paranoiac phenomenon in abeyance to eventuation or other superfluous loathsome malapropos denouements."

Arthur C. Clarke:  "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

Robert H Goddard:  It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

Howard Hughes:  “I'm not a paranoid deranged millionaire. Goddamit, I'm a billionaire.”

Richard Nixon: "Why would I want to talk to David Frost?"

Swifty Lazar: "I've got half a million dollars."

Richard Nixon: "Really? (Expletive deleted)."

Phil:  "Knowledge is power.*

*subject to updates without notice"

Continuing Our Discussion: "What is a Self Evident Truth"

Dr Carl Sagan: “Who are we?"

All:  "We are the world."

Michael Jackson:  "We are the children."

Dr Carl Sagan:  "We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.”

Carl Jung: "As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being."

Arthur C. Clarke:  "It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him."

Frank Morgan:  "I am the great and powerful....Wizard of Oz."

Dr Henry Frankenstein:  “It's alive!  It's alive!  It's alive!  It's alive!  IT'S ALIVE!"

Lois Lane:  "It's Superman!"

Jaques:  “All the world's a stage” 

Hamlet:  "wherein we'll catch the conscience of the King."

Anne Hathaway:  "You remind me of the man."

William Shakespeare: "What man?"

Anne Hathaway:  "The man with the power."

William Shakespeare:  "What power?"

Anne Hathaway:  "The power of woohoo." 

William Shakespeare:  "Woohoo?" 

Anne Hathaway:  "Yoohoo."

William Shakespeare:  "Oh Hello bb, brb."

Nick Bottom:  "Methinks I was enamored of an ass."

Hannity:  "You have a way with words."

Jerry Falwell:  “The whole (global warming) thing is created to destroy America's free enterprise system and our economic stability."

Phil:  "The planet Venus, named after the Goddess of Love, turns out to be a very hot, mean place for life as we know it."

Bill Nye, the Science Guy:  "If you want to get serious about it, these guys claiming that the snow in Washington disproves climate change are almost unpatriotic.  It‘s really they‘re denying science."

Phil:  "The sun is even hotter."

Dick Van Dyke: "Gray skies are gonna clear up, Put on a happy face."

The Walrus:  "goo goo g'joob g'goo goo g'joob."

Bob Anderson:  "Good job!"

John:  "And of course Henry the Horse dances the waltz."

Phil:  "A dictionary is actually a thesaurus."

Paul:  "Will you still feed me, will you still need me, when I'm sixty four."

William Shakespeare:  "That to be heaven Anne hath a way; She hath a way."

Robert Graves:  "A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good."

Phil:  "I'm not a big fan of profanity. There are just too many commonly unused words in the dictionary.  To wit, psychobabble's co-dependency in denial augurs an extrasomatic mephitic paranoiac phenomenon in abeyance to eventuation or other superfluous loathsome malapropos denouements."

Arthur C. Clarke:  "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

Robert H Goddard:  It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

Howard Hughes:  “I'm not a paranoid deranged millionaire. Goddamit, I'm a billionaire.”

Richard Nixon: "Why would I want to talk to David Frost?"

Swifty Lazar: "I've got half a million dollars."

Richard Nixon: "Really? (Expletive deleted)."

Phil:  "Knowledge is power.*

*subject to updates without notice"