Mr. Cropper's Philosopher's Song

[bluesboy25000]

Thank you very much Ladies and Bruces

[alifeofreason]

Ayn Rand is a sad monad.

[MrCropper]

Cheers!

[InvictusSPQR]

Absolutely brilliant.

[RadicalAwesomeness]

The title isn't doing it justice.

[Kneedragon1962]

I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.

[SordidGuy]

Kneedragon1962: LOVE this comment!!!!!! Thanks for the laugh!

[Samanmotlagh]

actually rand preffered existentialism over objectivism, but... it was kinda taken

[stu11977]

Thanks for posting this. It takes me back to first year uni in 1994. I just sms'ed the mate who introduced me to it in 1994.

[BoozyBeggar]

Oh, shit. I was hoping never to come across this song on yt; it's where I got all my online names from.

[bfgholycrap]

Ha ha! You have been foiled!

[MrCropper]

" I mean seriously, he'll leave Randism eventually...."

When I die.

[bfgholycrap]

Heh. He has stated his case.

[sonata1992]

And what a case it is.

[stephendedlus]

well............. ?

[lensherr82]

Mr. Cropper, don't you know that Rand hated for her philosphy to be called Randism? She always preferred the name objectivism.

[MCTMD1]

duh

[RoadRunnerLaser]

UPDATE:

I just spotted an error in my transcription of the lyrics:

"John Stuart Mill, of his own free will, ON half a pint of shandy..."

Not "WITH half a pint of shandy..."

I'd better stay off the bottle...

[alienjesus2012]

im way out of the loop on the whole cropper kant thing but i still loved it

[sonata1992]

I don't think any of us are really in on it. The only people who watched the SEVERAL HOURS of videos posted on it were those who made them, I'd wager :P

[RosieDesire]

Gotta love the Flying Circus

[frauleinannika]

This was awesome! 5 stars.

[sonata1992]

My favorite video rendition :P

[RoadRunnerLaser]

Hey, Dan.

Are you going to paste those lyrics into the side-bar ? My posts containing the lyrics have already migrated to the second page of comments.

[bubonicnate]

Beautiful!

[RoadRunnerLaser]

Immanuel Kant was a real pissant Who was very rarely stable. Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar Who could think you under the table. David Hume could out-consume Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, And Wittgenstein was a beery swine Who was just as schloshed as Schlegel. There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach ya 'Bout the raising of the wrist. Socrates, himself, was permanently pissed.

[RoadRunnerLaser]

John Stuart Mill, of his own free will, On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill. Plato, they say, could stick it away-- Half a crate of whisky every day. Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle. Hobbes was fond of his dram, And René Descartes was a drunken fart. 'I drink, therefore I am.' Yes, Socrates, himself, is particularly missed, A lovely little thinker, But a bugger when he's pissed.

[RoadRunnerLaser]

Now you have the lyrics, try singing it when you've consumed a significant amount of the old falling-down-water...!

You're doing well if you get much further than Plato ! The 'Aristotle' line is bad enough when sober !

[StevenErnest]

RotfLmao! XD You actually kinda pwned me, as I was going to do a version of this classic Python, but "singing" it myself. 5/5 and I bow to your talent, a budding Terry Gilliam! Maybe I'll still do it -- we gotta distract Mr. Cropper from mis-educating today's youth! Apparently, some people can't understand the lyrics, you should put them in the sidebar. Bravo, sir! ^_^

[RoadRunnerLaser]

Likewise, StevenErnest. The Twelve Days of Kantmas video gave me a similar thought and I've been singing the philosopher's drinking song to myself all night since I saw the 12 days vid.

[StevenErnest]

Kudos on posting the lyrics! :D

To be a bit anal, technically the full title is, "Bruces' Philosopher's Song," as it was sung by a bunch of drunken -- is there any other kind? -- Poofters! All named "Bruce."

J/K, I Heart Aussies; no one can wrestle a 'gator like 'em! Right 'mate?

[RoadRunnerLaser]

Yes, SE, you're quite right - You're an anal-retentive pedant... ;)

I mean... It is "Bruce's Philosopher's song" as you correctly point out but most people seem to know it by the other name, especially when the song isn't preceded by the sketch without the bar full of Bruces.

To be honest, I'd forgotten that it was sung by the Bruces until I was reminded.

[RoadRunnerLaser]

Bugger ! I don't know where my brain is today !

I meant "WITH the bar full of Bruces"...

Ohhhhhh... shoot me now.....!!!!

[StevenErnest]

Crikey, Bruce, that's funny! Bruce's love the conundrum of double negatives, right Bruce? Hey, Bruce, you know that's gonna happen when you've had all those Fosters! Next round's on me, Bruce. o_O

[bfgholycrap]

Wow, yes, there you go. You have all of the lyrics now. I'm glad I got around to, erm, posting them. Thanks, Roadrunner!

[bfgholycrap]

Thanks, Steven. I like the way it turned out. And after listening to it about 30 times trying to sync everything up, rest assured, I have been singing it continuously myself, heh.

[StevenErnest]

Heheh, damn, it's stuck in my noggin now, too! There's a funny touch on the line, "Nietzsche teach ya 'bout the raising of the wrist..." and you show the cover of The Gay Science. Raising the wrist = tossing back a drink, or the "fey" hand gesture. Or maybe that's the lowering of the wrist? O__O

[bfgholycrap]

Heh, thanks. Even Az didn't catch that right away. I would claim intellectual superiority while you can, I suppose!

[randyhelzerman]

I drink therefore I'm drunk!!

[cda6590]

What do you say about Nietzsche? I can't quite understand Mr. Cropper's horrid singing.

[RoadRunnerLaser]

cda6590:

"There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach ya 'bout the raising of the wrist."

And FYI, that's Monty Python's song and I very much doubt that Mr. Cropper is singing in it.

I might post up the full lyrics in a moment but I'm going to have to work around the 500char limit !!

[cda6590]

Oh I know that wasn't Mr. Cropper. See what happens? I try to put a little bit of subtle humor in my comment and I get blown away!

[RoadRunnerLaser]

Nah... I'm just too much of a dumbass to realise that you were posting in jest...

[bfgholycrap]

You did get blown away! You should add, "Eh, nudge, nudge," when you make jokes to retain the python style.

[RoadRunnerLaser]

Oh dear... I introduced my wife to the delights of Monty Python (she's Chinese so she'd never seen them before) and the 'nudge nudge, wink wink, say no more' line became a running joke for a while... Especially as she likes photography... Heheheheh !

[sonata1992]

"Will to power" :P

[strav12]

Niedge niedge.

Oh, sorry. I meant, nudge nudge...

Oh, fuck this!

[zorio]

OKAY

[thinkmorepink]

GENIUS

ABSOLUTELY

GENIUS

*DIES*

[bfgholycrap]

Mops Shan-puddle off the floor...

[thinkmorepink]

*giggles* sorry about that