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6th issue

 THINKABLES

Student Fights  

The sign in my classroom was intriguing.
Student Fights it read,
And in Europe, too,
For a fee
(and a heart full of desire I suppose).
Sign me up, I thought,
So I did.
Rage and Restraint,
COURAGE AND CONTROL,
KUNG FU,
AHHHHHH, THE MARTIAL ARTS!!!
After landing in Old Oxford,
I looked at my brochure
(you know, to find out where the budokan arena was).
Turns out,
I had simply purchased a student flight.

-Nathan Fuller

A Treatise on Love, Sex, and Fucking
Treat Williams, the acclaimed actor of such films as Human Cargo (1999) and The Fraternity (2002), is also “a real thinker.” He recently shared is insight for LCN in an unsolicited letter. He can currently be seen on the WB’s Everwood.

I’ve been with a lot of women. So, I know some things regarding the making of love, the having of sex, and a good fuck. There’s a difference. You see, I’m very discriminate. Recently, I felt it time to have “the talk” with my seven year old son, Freddy. This the conversation I had with him, the ideas I presented to him:

Son, to make love is the most obvious of the three. To make love, the people involved must, indeed, be in love. Allow me to drop an honesty bomb on you, Freddy: your mother and I never made love. We never did because I was never in love with her. I also doubt she makes love with your new “dad”, William Katt. He’s a great American fraud, Freddy, don’t believe anything he says. The only time I ever made love in my entire life was in 1987 when I had a threesome with two of-age prostitutes named Gloria and Stacey. I loved those girls. Oh fine, honestly… I also make love every time I masturbate.

Sex, or the having of it, occurs when people who aren’t in love copulate. They do it. I’ve never had sex either, my son. How's that? Let me tell you a story about a buddy of mine who called me last Sunday morning and said, “Treat, remember that girl who works at the galleria down near the Hollywood bowl? I fucked her.”
I had to tell him, “No, you didn’t. I’ve seen you in the shower.”

I told him that because fucking and the having of sex are very similar except that fucking is done by people with enormous sex organs like myself. Me and Tommy Lee, we fuck. Not each other, but you know what I mean.

I told my buddy, “Not you my friend, not you.”

Listen, the easiest way to make the distinction between sex and fucking is that having sex involves a penis and fucking involves a cock. You get the picture, don’t you Fred?

At that time, I gave my son his first box of condoms. He hugged me and we had what is deemed in the biz as “a moment.”

A Matter of Plethics
Old Professor Elliot believes the study of philosophy has to be "updated to reflect the modernity of our youth, much like leather". To this end, he "has a box, like a restaurant suggestion box, in which I allow my students to ask any questions they like, without fear of embarrassment". He sent us some with his answers attached.

"I wanted to ask you another Billy Ocean related ethical question. In his song he tells his dream girl to get out of his dreams and into his car. At the closing of the song he goes so far as to tell her, "get in the back seat, baby." Is this ethical?"

First off, I'm not familiar with today's music and so I do not know who this man is. I do have a 14 year old daughter who I'll consult later. Judging from his pseudonym, he must be a Navy man which implies that he might have a short time on his current shore leave. Give him a break if he then wants to rush this relationship. Also, I find it quite polite of him that he would desire to chauffeur this woman around. Kudos, William.

"I was walking downtown when I spotted a banana peel right in the middle of the street! No one else seemed to notice it, and if someone did they walked right over it! I was going to pick it, but I wanted to consult you first. What would have been the ethical thing to do? Shouldn't someone have picked it up? I mean someone could have slipped! Would you spend an entire class on this, please?"

You were right to consult me about this. It was your responsibility to pick up the banana peel since you spotted it first (please refer to Plato's Republic). If this happens again it is your duty, your social contract. However, before doing this you must first look at the area around the banana peel. Is there a giant rope encircling the fruit, placed there to catch a runaway gorilla? If there is do not pick up the peel! But if not, pick it up and then attempt to find its owner.

"I, like many other American men, wear a fake moustache when I go out on the weekend. I don't need to give you a history lesson on high fashion. Of course, you know that this trend started with Tom Selleck. (Ed. note: Tom Selleck plays Billy T. Wingington on Friends). Well, I met a girl while wearing this moustache, and I think it could get serious. Should I tell her that I'm a fake?"

You are not a fake, my friend. You are a trendsetter. Please remember that the world needs people like you. For your question I consulted first the index of Aristotle's Ethics. I could not find any entry concerning fake moustaches. Then I consulted the glossary of the treatise. Again, no reference. From this, it must be surmised that fake moustaches fall outside the realm of ethics and so therefore, my good friend, you are in the clear. Marry this girl. You sound like a match!

-reported by Steve Smith

 
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