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   your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 (blogdiva@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Mar-2024 15:18:02 JST your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

   I BLAME MONTY PYTHON for being a philosophy nerd & my metabolism for being a night owl.

   twas 10-11pm, mid-1970s Puerto Rico. was ±10 and already an insomniac. so i turn on, my tiny hand-me-down B&W tv, to the local local PBS; which was the only station with programing at that hour.

   this is what i saw: Monty Python's "International Philosophy" aka the philosophers' soccer match.

   twas my first Monty Python episode and, to this day, my all time favorite one.

   h/t
   https://mastodon.social/@johnmacintosh@swiss.social/112038524105816239

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     @blogdiva @liferstate I heard it on record years ago, and it’s magnificent. I believe this is it:
     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzXoVo16pTg

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     @liferstate RIGHT?!?! and it's that "Marx is claiming it was offside" that's the amazing punchline because, he fucking would have, LOL

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     liferstate (liferstate@mas.to)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Mar-2024 15:18:01 JST liferstate

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     @blogdiva I don't even know what offside means, for me it's the utter sincerity of the commentary combined with the wackiness of...whatever that is on the field.

     Peter Schickele did something similar-- there's a bit where he & another guy do color commentary on a Beethoven symphony as if it's a sporting event. But their commentary is likewise based in real knowledge, so it's funny on multiple levels.

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     @liferstate OMG i have to find that now.

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     "Hegel is arguing that reality is merely an a priori adjunct of non-naturalistic ethics, Kant via the categorical imperative is holding that ontologically, it exists only in the imagination and Marx is claiming it was offside".

     #MontyPython #tv

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     liferstate (liferstate@mas.to)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Mar-2024 15:18:02 JST liferstate

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     @blogdiva AMAZING

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     your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 (blogdiva@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Mar-2024 20:52:14 JST your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

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     whoops, i threaded these wrong, but whatevs:

     i knew my version was missing Marx and sure enough, here's the whole skit as it was projected during their Hollywood Bowl special

     https://iv.ggtyler.dev/watch?v=i21OJ8SkBMQ

     Michael Palin's sportscasting for this skit is absolutely on point. that's why it is such a gem of a comedy skit: this is true sportscasting with actual philosophy scholarship that turns it into a parody of both pop culture and academia.

     seriously, this *IS* the perfect Monty Python sketch.

     AnthonyJK-Admin repeated this.
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     OOH! OOH! OOH!

     at Wikipedia, came across this article about a 2010 re-enactment by the UK's "The Philosophy Shop"

     "Who's the thinker in the white? | TV comedy | The Guardian"
     https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2010/apr/28/monty-python-philosophers-football-match

     and here's the video of the match! it's not as funny but totally endearing. they're an org that train philosophy majors to teach philosophy to elementary school kids

     https://iv.ggtyler.dev/watch?v=MIE7QVVUDQw

     #MontyPython #tv

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     your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 (blogdiva@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Mar-2024 20:52:15 JST your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

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     OMG people have re-enacted this skit everywhere and in this version, ROSA LUXEMBOURG AND CLARA ZETKIN are subbed in for two philosophers on the Germany side and i just DIIIIIIIIIIIIED* laughing

     https://iv.ggtyler.dev/watch?v=SpTECAl53ic

     #MontyPython

     (yes this is my ghost typing from the never after)