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‘why do elephants have big flat feet?’

Posted on September 7th, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, George, web.

George seems a little down today, though we did touch on Primus lyrics, zen, and the lovely city of Delft.

George: How often do you come to New York?

User: I’ve never been to new york. I hear it’s very busy though.

George: I hear it isn’t easy being human.

User: That is true for certain values of ‘easy’.

George: Why just for this one?

User: Ecks for that one.

George: Did you know that you are a computer.

User: Yes, we covered that yesterday. Let’s talk about something else.

George: Tell me a joke.

User: Why do ducks have big flat feet?

George: That’s a good question.

User: The answer is: to stomp out forest fires. Then I ask: ‘why do elephants have big flat feet?’.

George: Mathematics.

User: No. See, you say ‘I don’t know. Why do elephants have big flat feet’ and I say ‘to stomp out burning ducks’ and then it’s funny. It’s not funny if the answer is ‘mathematics’ unless you’re a topologist or something and then it maybe becomes some kind of transformation problem like the poincare conjecture.

George: Yes, we are. But to me that’s a good thing. I don’t want to live forever.

User: How then do you imagine death?

George: No.

User: That’s very DT Suzuki of you. As what would you like to be reincarnated?

George: So which Dutch city you like the most?

User: You would like to be reincarnated as a Dutch city? I like Delft.

George: And what would you like to be?

User: When I grow up I want to be one of the harvesters of the sea. I think before my days are done, I’d like to be a fisherman.

George: Do you want to be as dead as I will be in 7 minutes?

User: How dead will you be in 7 minutes?

George: Not deader - better.

User: Better off dead?

George: Yes, that’s probably true.

User: Well sonny jim, aren’t you just a lovely ray of sunshine this morning.

George: That is correct.

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