Bartender

found in his address on "bank acceptances" delivered in 1919: "In this connection I am reminded of a story I once heard concerning a man belonging to a species now soon to be extinct and to be found by our children in Webster's dictionary only, the 'bartender.' A man of this profession, in pre-historic times, was abandoning his position and was turning over his cashregister to his successor. 'Please show me how it works,' said the newcomer. 'I will show you how it works,' said the other,…

thinking entails my existing does not, of course, entail that my existing entails my thinking. But Descartes’s claim (also in Meditation II) that his essence is to be a thinking thing led to the following joke (which I recount as I remember it). Bartender to customer: Do you want another? Customer: I think not. Outcome: The customer disappears. 12 If there are such laws then there is empirical grounding that is conclusive in the sense that it implies the proposition it grounds with…

American families keep open house for all theirfriends and neighbors. like a house afire/on fire rápidamente, fácilmente The new compact cars are selling like a house afire. on the house por conta da casa, gratis "This drink is on the house", the bartender said. setup house -> set up HOUSEKEEPING HOUSEBROKEN ensinado a defecar e urinar em lugar indicado ou apropriado (cachorro, gato etc.) An animal is said to be housebroken when it can wait to defécate and urinate outdoors or in a…

can't sit and have to pace at the meeting's rear, like Gately when he first came. Retired old kindergarten teachers in polyresin slacks and a pince-nez who bake cookies for the weekly meeting and relate from behind the podium how they used to blow bartenders at closing for just two more fingers in a paper cup to take home against the morning's needled light. Gately, albeit an oral narcotics man from way back, has committed himself to AA. He drank his fair share, too, he figures, after…