Topic: What is Self Evident?

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. Our discussion continues.

Hopalong Cassidy:  "Some women folk have a way of changing a man's mind without him even knowin' it. Funny..."

King Kong:  "I have these feelings for you Ann, but I guess I'm having a hard time expressing them.  Please forgive me, I'm just a big ole dopey gorilla.  I've thought about therapy, William Jennings Bryan, Exxon, quantitative analysis.... I just don't know if it could ever work out between us."

Martin (The Geico Gecko):  "Oh dear!"

Phil:  "The energy crisis?  Hitler's revenge for North Africa!"

Cris Mathews:  "Bummer!"

Beach Boys:  "Hoist up your sails John B."

T. Boone Pickens:  "We’ve got all these politicians talking about better health care and what all, but believe me, we’re not going to have the money to take care of sick people.. or anyone else as far as I’m concerned.. if we don’t fix our energy problem right now. I’ve got an idea what to do. It might not be a perfect idea, but hell, none of my best ideas have been perfect."

Hypatia of Alexandria:  "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all."

Yeah man: "Yup!"

Mona Lisa: "Can you prove God exists?"

Leonardo Da Vinci:  "If I told you, you wouldn't believe me."

Mona Lisa:   "You know?"

Leonardo Da Vinci:  "You know!"

Mona Lisa: "I know?"

Leonardo Da Vinci: "That's right."

Mona Lisa: "How do you know?"

Leonardo Da Vinci: "That is correct."

Mona Lisa:  "Jackass."

Leonardo Da Vinci:  "Jackass?"

Mona Lisa:  "That's right!"

Leonardo Da Vinci:  "You know?"

Mona Lisa:  "I know."

Leonardo Da Vinci:  "How do you know?"

Mona Lisa:  ;)

Patsy Cline:  "I'm Crazy."

Alfred E Neuman:  "What?  Me worry?"

Mr. Ed:  "Wilbur."

Phil:  "Did you see the movie 'The Man Who Would Be King?  How about 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow?' 'The Godfather?'"

Governor David Paterson:  "Did you see 'The Boys from Brazil?'"

Joe Cocker:  "I get by with a little help from my friends."

Ringo Starr:  "So this is America. They must be out of their minds."

Kenneth Starr:  “Let me share with you a bit of the record in the case.”

John Lennon:  "He blew his mind out in a car."

Lee Harvey Oswald:  "I'm a patsy."

LBJ:  “I never trust a man unless I've got his pecker in my pocket.”

Jack Ruby:  "I thought I'd be a hero."

Thomas Rudman-Brown:  "The best government is the one that charges you the least blackmail for leaving you alone.”

Glenn Beck:  "It's morning in America!"

Robin Williams:  "Good morning Viet Nam"

Paul Harvey:  "Good Day!"

Wilbur:  "Hello, Ed"

Louis Armstrong:  "Hello Dolly."

Martin Short:  "The callalillies are in bloom today."

George Segal:  "What's going on?"

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

Marvin Gaye:  "What going on?"

Joe Dirt: "Yeah, I'm cool."

Phil:  "Is the source of all religious fanaticism the false assumption that 'nothing' is a noun?" Or does the trouble lie with the human trait that would attempt to exploit the lemmings' true quest for life?"

Lou Costello:  What are you asking me for?

We Resume with Our Topic: A Self Evident Truth. Our discussion continues.

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."

Charles Darwin:  "I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection."

Walter Kornbluth:   "She's a fish!"

Beach Boys:  "Help me Rhonda, get her out of my heart."

Phil:  "Happiness starts with a smile."

Dalai Lama:  "If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."

Thomas Jefferson (with Ben Franklin editing):  “We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”

Gloria Steinem:  "A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle."

Carrie Nation:  ““Men are nicotine-soaked, beer-besmirched, whiskey-greased, red-eyed devils.”

Teddy Roosevelt:  "Speak softly, but carry a big stick."

Al Capone:  "Speak easy, but carry a baseball bat."

Helen Reddy:  "I am woman, hear me roar."

Tony the tiger: "They're grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreat!"

Tiger Woods:  "Could you just maybe delete my name from your cell phone.  That would be huge."

Phil:  "...and ends without one."

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."

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

Patsy Cline: "I'm Crazy."

Alfred E Neuman: "What? Me worry?"

Mr. Ed: "Wilbur."

Phil: "Did you see the movie 'The Man Who Would Be King? How about 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow?' 'The Godfather?'"

Governor David Paterson: "Did you see 'The Boys from Brazil?'"

Joe Cocker: "I get by with a little help from my friends."

Ringo Starr: "So this is America. They must be out of their minds."

Kenneth Starr: “Let me share with you a bit of the record in the case.”

John Lennon: "He blew his mind out in a car."

Lee Harvey Oswald: "I'm a patsy."

LBJ: “I never trust a man unless I've got his pecker in my pocket.”

Jack Ruby: "I thought I'd be a hero."

Thomas Rudman-Brown: "The best government is the one that charges you the least blackmail for leaving you alone.”

Glenn Beck: "It's morning in America!"

Robin Williams: "Good morning Viet Nam"

Paul Harvey: "Good Day!"

Wilbur: "Hello, Ed"

Louis Armstrong: "Hello Dolly."

Martin Short: "The Calla Lilies are in bloom today."

George Segal: "What's going on?"

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

Marvin Gaye: "What going on?"

Joe Dirt: "Yeah, I'm cool."

Phil: "Is the source of all religious fanaticism the false assumption that 'nothing' is a noun?" Or does the trouble lie with the human trait that would attempt to exploit the lemmings' true quest for life?"

Topic: A Self Evident Truth

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."