On Fri, 5 Nov 2021 15:53:10 -0500, Hank Rogers <Ha...@nospam.invalid>
wrote:
That reminds me of of a scene from the Hitchhikers Guide to the
Galaxy.
"How long?" he said.
"Seven and a half million years," said Deep Thought.
Lunkwill and Fook blinked at each other.
"Seven and a half million years ...!" they cried in chorus.
"Yes," declaimed Deep Thought, "I said I'd have to think about it,
didn't I? And it occurs to me that running a programme like this is
bound to create an enormous amount of popular publicity for the whole
area of philosophy in general. Everyone's going to have their own
theories about what answer I'm eventually to come up with, and who
better to capitalize on that media market than you yourself? So long
as you can keep disagreeing with each other violently enough and
slagging each other off in the popular press, you can keep yourself on
the gravy train for life. How does that sound?"
The two philosophers gaped at him.
"Bloody hell," said Majikthise, "now that is what I call thinking.
Here Vroomfondel, why do we never think of things like that?"
"Dunno," said Vroomfondel in an awed whisper, "think our brains must
be too highly trained Majikthise."