The supreme undercurrent, of course, being the presence of an attractive black man boning a flock of blue collar white babes. (And just when we have an attractive black man in the White House boning the middle class [says ClusterFox]).
I don't know, I think it was unprecedented - well organized, run like a business, employees handling it, regular disbursements made. I've never seen anything on this scale before.
@hilikusopus: As a Greek-American who once even took a philosophy class, I feel especially qualified to take issue with your implication, H. Though I can't speak directly for Socrates, I can categorically assert that Plato had nothing sexual to do with any of his students. Especially that one Nubian prince with the knee-high sandals, the ass that defied gravity, and the eyelashes that lashed you if you got close enough.
How, you ask?
Because all of Plato's relationship were Platonic, of course.
@TheSometimesWhy: Recovering philosophy major, here. I do believe their ecce-on-ecce love was Platonic, if not explicitly physical....but let's face it, those togas were made for reach-arounds.
The wikipedia entry on Platonic love (yes, I dare) has a surprisingly well put and succint definition:
chaste but passionate love, based not on lack of erotic interest but on spiritual transmutation of the sex force, opening up vast expanses of subtler enjoyments than sex.
That shit sounds so hot to philosophers, you have no idea. I have to go change me toga, now.
@hilikusopus: And they made great wrist restraints in a pinch...or so I am told...Platonically speaking, of course...
Best of luck with your recovery, by the way. It is a lifelong battle, with the inevitable occasional set-back at a cocktail party when you break into a defense of dialectic materialism while sipping Mad Dog 20/20 from a styrofoam cup, but in the end, you will prevail.
It's quite brilliant, when you think of it. Hiring both brothers would be a coup.
"Sign over $10m with US and get to punch a Madoff in the gut. Sign over $20m and you get one to the face!"
...I'd imagine they'd do quite well finding clients in Florida.
@Uncle_Billy_Slumming: I love the how the genitives paidos and podos became the same thing over the centuries! Great fun for pedophiles with foot fetishes!
Somebody should hire them. And rather than spend their salaries on lux vacations or yachts & rockets, they should donate the $ to some people who lost their entire retirement savings w/ Bernie's ponzi scheme. Even if they didn't know then, they know now. They have plenty of $ to survive & you bet they have some tucked away in offshore accounts.
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You'll know if they get hired someplace. You'll see the compliance officer on a midtown sidewalk with a chalk outline around his splattered remains, while 40 stories above, scraps of synthetic curtains flutter from a hole in the shattered glass.
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Any other scandal in the near future will inevitably try to live up to this one and be a letdown.
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Ask Socrates and Plato.
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Because all of Plato's relationship were Platonic, of course.
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The wikipedia entry on Platonic love (yes, I dare) has a surprisingly well put and succint definition:
chaste but passionate love, based not on lack of erotic interest but on spiritual transmutation of the sex force, opening up vast expanses of subtler enjoyments than sex.
That shit sounds so hot to philosophers, you have no idea. I have to go change me toga, now.
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Best of luck with your recovery, by the way. It is a lifelong battle, with the inevitable occasional set-back at a cocktail party when you break into a defense of dialectic materialism while sipping Mad Dog 20/20 from a styrofoam cup, but in the end, you will prevail.
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"Sign over $10m with US and get to punch a Madoff in the gut. Sign over $20m and you get one to the face!"
...I'd imagine they'd do quite well finding clients in Florida.
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Speeking of greeking, did you know that the -ped- in encyclopedia is the same as the ped- in pedophile? And pedantry.
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(too obvious?)
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A previous student, Tim Teacherontopadopalous, disagreed.
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