> Hello Arthur,
               Within the terms of the poem (is this a poem?) ideas are like those toys they etc in the sense that both can be played with. In other senses the two items are less noticeably similar, for instance, those toys etc usually come in primary colours whereas it has been my experience that ideas never do. I am very much taken by your suggestion that we might break our teeth on them. `I was just chewing over an idea the other day when I broke a tooth.....I spat it out and found one of those toys etc´ Could these be the opening lines for the latest epic poem?...watch this space. As for further thought...well, I´ll think about it, but if it made you smile I think it´s done it´s job ;-)



Best wishes,   Mike


> Lähettäjä: Arthur Seeley <[log in to unmask]>
> Päiväys: 2004/05/07 pe AM 11:13:00 GMT+03:00
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> Aihe: Re: Yeah, right
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> Not quite the perfect epigram, Mike but brevity has its charm.
> I find the linkages unclear, how are ideas like plastic toys?
> You look for one and are delighted when you find one, perhaps? Or you forget
> they are there until you break a tooth on one? Or a waste of natural
> respources?
>  This is one for the notebook, for further thought perhaps. Arthur
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> From: "Mike Horwood" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 7:39 AM
> Subject: Yeah, right
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> 
> Yeah, right
> 
> Ideas are like those plastic toys
> they put in cereal packets.
> And thinking is like making love,
> both actions are adult forms of playing.
> 
> That´s why philosophers are so sexy.
> 
> 
> 
> Mike
>