Ideas without Irony

If you wanna talk about what might be “real” philosophy, chew on this:  Ideas without irony.

A City man, evidently desperate to be a source of some good advice, informed his nephew thusly, “Never allow a cricket team from the Lesser Antilles to refer to you as ‘that portly gentleman over there.’”

In another one of those City philosophy books I read, and I quote, the following, “Even the gods can’t change the past.”  And to that I add, even if they could – what difference would it make?

Even if they smile and INSIST, “Ah, come on, tell us what you think,” – don’t.

I’m sorry, I truly am, but there is no substitute for intelligence…NONE…sorry.

J.