Dear Philosopher

January 11, 2003 11:47 AM

"Dear Heidegger: What came first, the chicken or the egg?" "Dear Hobbes: What causes women to wear white pumps?" Answers and advice from these and other great philosophers, from h2so4.
posted by homunculus (5 comments total)

Really, too much effort went into this site for it to turn out so not very funny...
posted by jonson at 1:27 PM on January 11, 2003

Yep. This is funnier.
posted by Fabulon7 at 1:56 PM on January 11, 2003

h2so4 is so excellent. Their neologisms are usually hilarilicious. Here's one relavant to mefi:

emoticonoclast. n. an attacker of established on-line ideas and usages, especially those revolving around 'emoticons' such as :)

Thanks for the reminder, homunculus. I had several issues sitting not two feet from my hand as I read your post, and I hadn't added to the stack in too long.
posted by precipice at 3:39 PM on January 11, 2003

Fabulon7 - that's great! I'd seen that before, back in 1994 or 95 as an email. Hilarious, thanks for pointing it out again.
posted by jonson at 5:41 PM on January 11, 2003

my friend's roommate in college had a subscription to h2so4; i thought it was the coolest thing ever. good to know it has a home on the web.
posted by juv3nal at 1:28 AM on January 13, 2003