Topic: A Self Evident Truth. Our discussion continues.

Sigmund Freud:  "Man, ist wenn verliebt, sehr verrückt."

Leonard Bernstein:  "I feel pretty....."

Professor Henry Higgins:  "By George, I think she's got it!"

Clarke Gable:  "Frankly my dear I don't give a damn."

Bud Abbott:  "Oh, that's our short stop."

Phil:  "But love is real, symbolically speaking, Ann."

Rumi:  "There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the earth."

Brooke Medicine Eagle:  "Spirit of the Wind carry me.  Spirit of the Sky spread my wings and fly."

Emilia: "'Tis neither here nor there."

Marcellus:  "'Tis gone!"

Joe Namath:  "Hut one. Hut two. I want to kiss you."

Jim Morrison:  "Come on Baby light my fire!"

Pepe LePew:  "Je t'adore, mon cheri."

Jose Feliciano:  "Girl we couldn't get much higher."

Elton John:  "Like a Candle in the Wind"

Peter:  "Puff the magic dragon..."

Rif:  "When you're a jet..."

Friedrich Nietzsche:  "Also sprach Zarathustra"

"Erin Pavlina:  "In summary, if you want to learn to astral project there’s no reason why you can’t.  But it will take a commitment and some high awareness."

Mitch Miller and the Gang:  "By the light of the Silvery Moon"

Dennis Connors:  “Design has taken the place of what sailing used to be.”

Phil:  "Ready about!  Hard alee!  Nice smile!"

Adam:  "Do you know the difference between a jib and a gybe?"

John Cameron Swayze:  "It takes a licking, and keeps on ticking!"

Bob Dylan:  "The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind."

Bob Denver: "Far out"

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi: "Yogic Flying"

Clarence Darrow: "Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas."

Robin:  "Holy Smokes, Batman!"

Topic: A Self Evident Truth. Our discussion continues.

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"

Continuing Our Discussion: "What is Self Evident?"

Phil:  "Without agricultural science (8000 BC) it takes about 5000 acres to support one human.   Agrarian science allows the hunter-gatherer to settle down.  One acre can now support one human. (5000 BC)  It's good to know when to plant the seed.

Genesis:   But God had said, “But from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you shall surely die” (2:17).

Plato: "χαθούν στη μετάφραση"

Casca: "But, for my own part, it was Greek to me."

Phil:  "3500 BC, The Real Estate industry begins.  A man's home is his castle.  Thus the transition from Cave Man to Condo Dweller begins....though some homo sapiens apparently have yet to come out of their caves or make sense of antidisestablishmentarianism."

Plato:  "Η αλληγορία του σπηλαίου."

Phil:  "The fossilized remains of dragons prove their existence, by George!  And to think the ancient Sumerians only mythologized them."

Joseph Campbell:  "A one sentence definition of mythology? "Mythology" is what we call someone else's religion."

Phil:  "Tragically Hip? I'm updated traditional myself, but that's another story."

Fred Flintstone:  "Yabba dabba doo!"

Jerry Ruben:  "I invented the term Young Urban Professional, Yuppie."

Jerry Falwell:  “AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals."

Bob Orbin: "Are you gay?"(TTW)

Elvis:  "Elvis the Pelvis? You ain't never caught a rabbit, you ain't no friend of mine."

Phil:  "We're going to need a population explosion to spread the debt around."

JFK:  "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."

FDR:  "The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself."

Mr. President:  "Can you spare a dime, Bro?"

President Barack Obama:  "That is the true genius of America, a faith in the simple dreams of its people, the insistence on small miracles. That we can say what we think, write what we think, without hearing a sudden knock on the door. That we can have an idea and start our own business without paying a bribe or hearing a sudden knock on the door. That we can participate in the political process without fear of retribution, and that our votes will be counted-or at least, most of the time."

Phil:  "Education, applied science, innovation and entrepreneurship generates real wealth for the people of our nation.  Wall Street spreads the wealth around, thank you."

Will Rogers:  "Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for."

Phil:  "Bureaucrats are the kind of people who get in your way and then ask 'How may I help?'  And finally, object to your suggestions and congratulate themselves for a job well done!"

Thomas Jefferson: “A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.”

Phil:  If Warren Buffet were a socialist, he would have given all his money to the government, and let the government save AIG.

DDE:  Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels -- men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, we may never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

HST:  "The buck stops here."

Bill O' Reilly:  "The spin stops here."

Anonymous:  "Hip Hip Hurrah!"

Irving Berlin:  "Yip Yip Yaphank!"

Anonymous:  "Hip Hip Hypnotism!"

Henry Fonda:  "G A F!"

Sam:  "Cheers!"

Cliff:  "Salud!"

H. Cohen:  "You little cocksucker.  Are you ready?"(TTW stomping on floor above)

S. Portelli: "No." No."(TTW stomping on floor above)

KoKo the gorilla: "My cat good."

A-RAB: Where you gonna find Bernardo?

Jeff Goldbaum: "Be afraid, be very afraid."

Bernardo:  "I have seen nothing."

Elton John:  "BBBennie and the jets."

Abigail Adams:  “I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic

Continuing Our Discussion: "What is Self Evident?"

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."

Cheryl Casone:  "I want to give Congress a business education."

Phil:  "I want every American to have a business education, before they graduate High School.  And to make the Law of Supply and Demand part of the Pledge of Allegiance."

Sylvestor Stallion:  "I am a sensitive writer, actor and director. Talking business disgusts me. If you want to talk business, call my disgusting personal manager."

Phil:  "Save America?   Simple.  An awesome defense, outlaw inflation, outlaw hidden taxation, and create more doctors!  A few more generalists who can see the garden for the trees wouldn't hurt."

Joseph Stalin:  "When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use."

Phil:  "The government control of the free market?  It boggles the mind. And leads us to uncharted McMurphonomics."

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

President Obama:  "People are angry at Washington now."

Howard Beale:  "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!"

Phil:  "The American people are familiar with Social Security and Medicare.  Where is all this anger coming from?"

Anne Coulter:  "Crony capitalism."

Martin (The Geico Gecko):  "Right.  Charlie McMurphyism."

Phil:  "Are you smarter than a post graduate?"

Bill Gates:  "So I didn't graduate, but I'm richer than all of them. Ha! And I'm doing something about agrarian science. OK?"

Carlos Slim Helu:  "Bueno."

Howard Beale:  "I don't have to tell you things are bad."

Studio Audience:   "HOW BAD IS IT?"

Johnny Carson: "Well,,, I'll tell you.  Its getting so bad in America,  if you have a high school diploma, you could be an elitist."

Mary Poppins:  "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!"

Paul Harvey:  "Now you know the rest of the story."

John McLaughlin:  "Bye Bye!"

Howard Beale:   "But first get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it: I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!!!"

Walter Kronkite:  "And that's the way it is."

William Bendix:  "What a revoltin' development this is!"

Phil:  "Do you have a personal relationship with the Multiverse?"

Jon Stewart:  "Go fuck yourselves!"

Phil:  "Does anyone feel the need to go fuck themselves?"

Elmer Fudd:  "Dang wabbit!"

Bill O'Reilly:  "Don't be a popinjay!"

Topic: A Self Evident Truth

Genesis:  So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.  And God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth."  

Phil:  "8000 BC Human population about 5.3 million. The date of creation set at 5508 BC or 5409 BC or 4004 BC or 3760 BC.

Cris Wallace:  It's a date.

Clarke Gable:   "Hell, if I'd jumped on all the dames I'm supposed to have jumped on, I'd have had no time to go fishing."

Phil:  "4000 BC:  World population is about 85 million.

Cris:  "People who live in grass huts shouldn't stow thrones.  

Phil:  "The abacus developed in and around the Middle East and Mediterranean about 3000 BC."

Pythagoras:  "Μια ορθογωνισμένη συν Β ορθογωνισμένη ίσον C ορθογωνισμένη."

Hammurabi the Great:  "We knew that!"

Pythagoras:  "Ι αποδείχθηκε."

Church Lady:  "Well I don't know.  Who could it be?"

Howard Baker:  "What did the president know and when did he know it?"

Phil:  "2010 AD Earth's population 6.08 billion."

Ernest Hemingway:  "But did thee feel the earth move?"

Phil:  "Whoa!  I believe that's called human nature, anthropomorphically speaking."

Martin (The Geico Gecko):  "Human Nature.  Right."

Phil:  "Without agricultural science (8000 BC) it takes about 5000 acres to support one human.   Agrarian science allows the hunter-gatherer to settle down.  One acre can now support one human. (5000 BC)  It's good to know when to plant the seed.

Genesis:   But God had said, “But from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you shall surely die” (2:17).

Plato: "χαθούν στη μετάφραση"

Casca: "But, for my own part, it was Greek to me."

Phil:  "3500 BC, The Real Estate industry begins.  A man's home is his castle.  Thus the transition from Cave Man to Condo Dweller begins....though some homo sapiens apparently have yet to come out of their caves or make sense of antidisestablishmentarianism."

Plato:  "Η αλληγορία του σπηλαίου."

Phil:  "The fossilized remains of dragons prove their existence, by George!  And to think the ancient Sumerians only mythologized them."

Joseph Campbell:  "A one sentence definition of mythology? "Mythology" is what we call someone else's religion."

Phil:  "Tragically Hip? I'm updated traditional myself, but that's another story."

Fred Flintstone:  "Yabba dabba doo!"

Jerry Ruben:  "I invented the term Young Urban Professional, Yuppie."

Jerry Falwell:  “AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals."

Bob Orbin: "Are you gay?"(TTW)

Elvis:  "Elvis the Pelvis? You ain't never caught a rabbit, you ain't no friend of mine."

Phil:  "We're going to need a population explosion to spread the debt around."

JFK:  "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."

FDR:  "The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself."

Mr. President:  "Can you spare a dime, Bro?"

President Barack Obama:  "That is the true genius of America, a faith in the simple dreams of its people, the insistence on small miracles. That we can say what we think, write what we think, without hearing a sudden knock on the door. That we can have an idea and start our own business without paying a bribe or hearing a sudden knock on the door. That we can participate in the political process without fear of retribution, and that our votes will be counted-or at least, most of the time."

Phil:  "Education, applied science, innovation and entrepreneurship generates real wealth for the people of our nation.  Wall Street spreads the wealth around, thank you."

Will Rogers:  "Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for."

Phil:  "Bureaucrats are the kind of people who get in your way and then ask 'How may I help?'  And finally, object to your suggestions and congratulate themselves for a job well done!"

Thomas Jefferson: “A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.”

Phil:  If Warren Buffet were a socialist, he would have given all his money to the government, and let the government save AIG.

DDE:  Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels -- men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, we may never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

HST:  "The buck stops here."

Bill O' Reilly:  "The spin stops here."

Anonymous:  "Hip Hip Hurrah!"

Irving Berlin:  "Yip Yip Yaphank!"