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Miscellany, Inc. => Ensign First Class Blather => Topic started by: Ghreyfain on December 14, 2005, 01:14:45 AM

Title: I think, therefore...
Post by: Ghreyfain on December 14, 2005, 01:14:45 AM
Dude 1: Hey, um, how many mushroom you have in that bag?
Dude 2: I have seven mushroom in my bag.
Dude 1: Good.  Er, what about celery?
Dude 2: I got two celery.
Dude 1: I'm makin' stew.  You got half a dozen sweet potato I can borrow?
Dude 2: Um, I think there four, uh... yam.  No sweet potato at all though.
Dude 1: No sweet potato?
Dude 2: No.
Dude 1: Oh.
Title: Re: I think, therefore...
Post by: Borsook on December 14, 2005, 02:48:31 AM
Well... yes. I don't understand at all. Not the first nor the last time though.
Title: Re: I think, therefore...
Post by: Eral on December 14, 2005, 03:21:38 AM
Don't worry Borsook. It's probably an obscure Canadian comedy show which if we are lucky will never see wider circulation. And having been unfortunate enough to understand the horribly bad word play, I think you'll  probably be grateful that you are spared exactly how bad the yam/sweet potato joke is.

Ghrey, you can't find anything funny to share? You are not being a very good ambassador for Canadian humour.
Title: Re: I think, therefore...
Post by: Borsook on December 14, 2005, 03:26:59 AM
Don't worry Borsook. It's probably an obscure Canadian comedy show which if we are lucky will never see wider circulation. And having been unfortunate enough to understand the horribly bad word play, I think you'll  probably be grateful that you are spared exactly how bad the yam/sweet potato joke is.

Ghrey, you can't find anything funny to share? You are not being a very good ambassador for Canadian humour.

No, seriously, now you've got me curious Eral. I'd be grateful for the pun explanation. Just remember please I'm an ESL

EDIT>typo
Title: Re: I think, therefore...
Post by: fcm on December 14, 2005, 03:32:08 AM
I'm horribly in the dark as well.
Title: Re: I think, therefore...
Post by: Eral on December 14, 2005, 03:38:20 AM
A sweet potato is a yam, a vegetable in the potato family. "I think, therefore I am" is a famous statement made by a French philosopher Descartes. It's probably the only thing he said that most people know. If you read over the - well we'll call it dialogue - it might make more sense now. It still won't be funny.
Title: Re: I think, therefore...
Post by: Borsook on December 14, 2005, 03:41:14 AM
A sweet potato is a yam, a vegetable in the potato family. "I think, therefore I am" is a famous statement made by a French philosopher Descartes. It's probably the only thing he said that most people know. If you read over the - well we'll call it dialogue - it might make more sense now. It still won't be funny.
That's so... lame. Thanx for the answer anyway.

PS. No offence Ghrey.
Title: Re: I think, therefore...
Post by: fcm on December 14, 2005, 05:03:37 AM
You know . . . the paper I'm supposed to be writing actually has a lot to do with Decartes, but I won't get into details because then this will turn into a RELIGION thread. Hahaha. Just understand that it's a coincidence I find amusing. Be amused with me.
Title: Re: I think, therefore...
Post by: CoM_Solaufein on December 14, 2005, 08:22:47 AM
And I thought English humor was odd.
Title: Re: I think, therefore...
Post by: notasophist on December 14, 2005, 02:31:00 PM
You know . . . the paper I'm supposed to be writing actually has a lot to do with Decartes, but I won't get into details because then this will turn into a RELIGION thread. Hahaha. Just understand that it's a coincidence I find amusing. Be amused with me.

Overrated philospher, underrated Physicist. I like him though. He was a brave little man who thought that coming up with an a priori God is the same thing  as being God.
Title: Re: I think, therefore...
Post by: Ghreyfain on December 14, 2005, 03:26:22 PM
I don't think it's so much Canadian humour as it is Produce humour.  I'm sure I've told the one about the salad before.
Title: Re: I think, therefore...
Post by: Borsook on December 14, 2005, 03:30:16 PM
I don't think it's so much Canadian humour as it is Produce humour.  I'm sure I've told the one about the salad before.
I for one do not recall it...
Title: Re: I think, therefore...
Post by: Marauder on December 14, 2005, 04:10:56 PM
I don't think it's so much Canadian humour as it is Produce humour.  I'm sure I've told the one about the salad before.
I for one do not recall it...

*elbows Borsook and wispers* Don't arouse it, dammit!
Title: Re: I think, therefore...
Post by: jester on December 14, 2005, 05:27:25 PM
Sounds like Hobbits talking over what they are having for late supper.

I really liked it takes one to noone.
Title: Re: I think, therefore...
Post by: Muerte on December 14, 2005, 05:38:00 PM
How strange.  :D