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Meaning of Life Stuff
Jabberwock Posted Feb 1, 2008
C.K.Ogden, 1923. A book generations of philosophy students have taken great pains not to read.
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kangalew oftimes Lew-- NEVER Louis! Posted Feb 5, 2008
I thought I'd offer a little light entertainment to this high minded endeavour. A while ago an old song came into my head that anybody of my generation would remember. "Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries". A pity I cannot remember the whole thing, but it starts off.."Life is just a bowl of cherries, Don't take it serious, It's too mysterious." and the final lines are, "So Live and Laugh at it All."
Being aware of Jab's extensive knowledge in all things I reckon he would know the whole thing.
Sometimes philosophy can be expressed in an entertaining way!
Meaning of Life Stuff
Jabberwock Posted Feb 5, 2008
Life is just a bowl of cherries
Don't take it serious,
Life's too mysterious
You work,
You save,
You worry so
But you can't take your dough
When you go, go, go
So keep repeating "It's the berries."
The strongest oak must fall
The sweet things in life
To you were just loaned
So how can you lose
What you've never owned
etc.
I knew some of it - I know it well. The rest supplied c/o Google.
At http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/fosse/lifeisjustabowlofcherries.htm
Mind you, I haven't the faintest idea what 'life is just a bowl of cherries' precisely means.
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Jabberwock Posted Feb 5, 2008
Video version (stage version): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGEh1s54jmA
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Feb 5, 2008
There's a Rodgers and Hammerstein song ("Lopsided bus," from "Pipe Dream") that gives a cynical retort to "Life is just a bowl of cherries"):
Life is a bowl full of cherries,
Except that the cherries ain't there.
Life is a roomful of feathers
That keep getting in your hair 
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Helen Traubel was a Wagnerian soprano who got tired of a steady diet of opera, so she signed on to play the brothel's Madam in "Pipe Dream." When Rudolph Bing scolded her for losing her dignity, Traubel replied, "I Bring my dignity with me." 
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Jabberwock Posted Feb 5, 2008
Have heard that life is just a crock of sht, but we'll move on quickly from that, shall we?
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Feb 5, 2008
To Salvador Dali, time was a crock o' dials. 
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zendevil Posted Feb 7, 2008
My fiends, here is the answer:
http://www.catsinsinks.com/
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Feb 7, 2008
Feline fiends? 
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