Thursday, July 17, 2014

Overheard in the Office...

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

It certainly ended with a bang!

Apologies to Everyone!

Ulises from CA

Old NFO said...

Ummm.... Not trying to be picky, but that 2300+ year difference thingie??? :-)

Don M said...

Hey, I was what you did with that!

Now that is art!

New Jovian Thunderbolt said...

Has to be true. You can't anything false on the internet.

Armed Texan said...

Did he offer her a nice cup of herbal tea during the interview?

Matt G said...

And Abe scratched the place where the back of his head would be and responded, "I can't recall, really; I didn't catch the ending. But there was this one line that really killed! How's your drink?"

Anonymous said...

Just know that I read that as "SO-crates", just like Bill & Ted would've said it.

-Drifter

Ed said...

“The difference between Socrates and Jesus is that no one had ever been put to death in Socrates' name. And that is because Socrates' ideas were never made law. Law, in whatever name, protects privilege.” - E.L. Doctorow

Brad K. said...

I hadn't heard that one-liner attributed to Socrates, but I have enjoyed it since Skip, a silicon valley engineer, used it in the mid-1980s.

markm said...

Drifter: I've always wondered if Saugerties, NY was someone's attempt to spell Socrates.