ORACLE'S TOPPS ROOKIE CARD
"The Oracle" is usually used by the indiscriminate to refer to the Delphic Oracle. The best scholarship discloses at least two interesting things:
1. That particular Oracle was either an abducted Egyptian slave woman or possibly the daughter of such a woman who feigned wisdom to cover up her powerless and vulnerable status;
2. That particular Oracle related that Socrates was the most brilliant of all men, to which Socrates replied that all men were equally intelligent and equally ignorant and, if he had any intellectual advantage, it was that he realized how ignorant he actually was.
Of course, there's also a guy in the NBA who calls himself "Smoosh" too. No accounting for what people will choose to call themselves.
posted by UMRBlog @ 22:19
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3 Comments:
I truely enjoy the ORAL-A-cle
I find some of the musings insightful and others as wacky as a Rep Feinstein rant .
Hey discourse is good ! So is civil dissent ! As Arron burr once said " draw" .........
Too bad he killed a true leader but back then liberals were ROUGH
If the topic had been the export of microchips and its effect on the balance of trade, I'm sure you could have been counted on to tell us what chip is in your computer.
Aaron Burr was a true whack job and a trial lawyer. There's a fine line there which is frequently crossed.
lootie from the lower 9th,
The post above was obviously in response to anon 0823, and not to your "Motorcycle Diary" entry.
Thanks for coming by.
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