Philosophy Limericks*


A quantum mechanic of Thrupp
Was unwisely invited to sup.
He bored them all stiff
With his pragmatist riff,
Calculating, but not shutting up.

A Hempel disciple from Spain
Found her husband in bed with his swain.
Being logically schooled,
She was not a bit fooled
By his stammering, "I can explain!"

The physics equipment provider
Supplied a small hadron collider.
The person in charge
Had ordered a large,
But the cheapskate provider defied her.

The bailiffs were happy to see
The philosopher pay off his fee.
But they knew they'd been rash
When they found that his cash
Was green only up to time T.
 
Said a cyclical thinker named Flynn,
"All that happens has already been."
So one day, with a knife,
He took his own life,
Saying, "Well, this is where I came in."

A very large man of Bellerive
Found everything hard to believe.
He wandered about
In perpetual doubt,
That Incredulous Hulk of Bellerive.

The Cartesian raised quite a few backs
With his rude philosophic attacks.
But he always would fly
Before any reply,
For he turned out to have balls of wax.




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