--- By JLS
From wiki, "spandrels"
"Phillip Stevens Thurtle. "The G Files: Linking 'The Selfish Gene' And 'The Thinking Reed'""
A Gricean joke arises out of eschatological concerns.
"You're the cream in my coffee"
is _funny_ (some say) because, hey, cream has no ears, so who are you talking to!
Ditto,
"Selfish Gene": it's fun, more so coming from an Oxon DPhil in Biology, right?
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Ditto, "Thinking Reed".
As Kramer notes: "animism" galore! I'm surprised Kramer objects to my scare quotes in "Those spots 'mean' smallpox". :) (I hope smallbox is not too serious. The spots look VERY serious -- I have to find more about the virus, since Dawkins did it again when using the analogy to speak of his own "Atheists for Jesus" as campaigning against some 'viruses of the mind' he detected elsewhere.
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