Here’s a sweet treatment: eat locally produced honey to relieve your seasonal allergies. It would be sweet, that is, if it worked. The idea is basically this: bees use pollen to produce honey, and that pollen may come from the same plants you’re allergic to. If it does, you may b...
What is the meaning of life? It is a question that has intrigued the great philosophers--and has been hilariously lampooned by Monty Python. Indeed, the whole idea strikes many of us as vaguely pompous, a little absurd. Is there one profound and mysterious meaning to life, a single ultimat...
What is the meaning of life? It is a question that has intrigued the great philosophers-and has been hilariously lampooned by Monty Python. Indeed, the whole idea strikes many of us as vaguely pompous and perhaps more than a little absurd. Is there one profound answer, an ultimate purpose ...
" lampooned classic opera by using its elements to set up the latest chapter in Elmer Fudd's hapless pursuit of Bugs Bunny. We open with a silhouette of a mighty Viking arousing ferocious lightning storms ... only to find it's Elmer -- this time as the demigod Siegfried. Elmer ...
Why is a porthole called a porthole? The French word porte, referring to a door or an opening, was used to describe them. Soon the openings became known as portholes. French actor Jacques Tati lampooned them in his 1950s film Mon Oncle by making them look like eyes, which doubled as ...
Nothing escapes the barbs of the satirists: from the Pope to the Prime Minister, the President of the US to the Royal Family, everyone is lampooned with equal affection. It’s often difficult for foreigners to understand British humour or to recognise when someone is being serious or joking...
“Like” has a long and scruffy pedigree: in the 1970s, it was a mainstay of Valspeak, the frequently ridiculed but highly contagious “Valley Girl” dialect of suburban Los Angeles, and even in 1964, the film Paris When It Sizzleslampooned the word’s overuse. All the way back in ...
248). While diligently pointing out the evils of overindulgence, he also had no patience with the Temperance Movement, which he lampooned in Pickwick Papers. Indeed Dickens had a falling out with his friend and illustrator George Cruikshank when Cruikshank, formerly a heavy drinker, became a ...
What is the meaning of life? It is a question that has intrigued the great philosophers--and has been hilariously lampooned by Monty Python. Indeed, the wh... J Baggini - 《Oxford University Press》 被引量: 17发表: 2005年 Philosophical Essays: Natural Language: What It Means and How We...
What is the meaning of life? It is a question that has intrigued the great philosophers--and has been hilariously lampooned by Monty Python. Indeed, the wh... J Baggini - 《Oxford University Press》 被引量: 17发表: 2005年 What is Your Purpose in Life? Joseph Campbell (1949) did more...