Comments on: Off the Record on Filipino Monkey

By: ThePug

ThePug — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 18:39:53 +0000

Not Pascal at all. http://www.travelingdogs.com/quotes.html, q.v.:

“To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.”
– Aldous Huxley

In fact, dogs, if they could, would likely object to such an invidious comparison to the current Administration’s flacks.

By: bmaz

bmaz — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:43:22 +0000

Well, it was some Pascal! What me worry?

By: KenMuldrew

KenMuldrew — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:17:15 +0000

Something must be broken on teh Google. How could Blaise Pascal, living in the 1600s, have made a quip about Napoleon?

By: bmaz

bmaz — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:52:48 +0000

You gotta love teh Google…..

By: bmaz

bmaz — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:51:46 +0000

Well, I’m going to take issue with that comment. Pavlov experimented on many dogs regarding the conditioned reflex of drooling. It was not a “single dog”. Furthermore, Pascal did have dogs involved, as I noted with the quote/quip “To his dog, every man is Napoleon”. Blaise Pascal, a true early Renaissance man and one of the fathers of modern hydraulics, is also known for Pascal’s Triangle, which relates to probability permutations still used by theorists and gamblers today.

By: axwall

axwall — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:18:22 +0000

A small point but necessary for the sake of OUR credibility: it’s not “Pascal’s dogs,” it’s Pavlov’s dog (singular). Pascal the philoospher was not known for having dogs, even less for the dogs’ behavior. Pavlov discovered that he could make a dog salivate on cue. You can use “Pavlov’s dog” to symbolize the press’s reflexive behavior–with the added bonus that in this, as in so many other cases, the press behaves like a trained dog.

By: bmaz

bmaz — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:16:41 +0000

Tell them that after admitting George W. Bush, they just were not academic enough! You are talking about the Harvard Cambridge right?

By: klynn

klynn — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:03:18 +0000

You have us in stitches…

He said, “If bmaz can get me the scholarship, sure! But what will I tell Cambridge?”

By: bmaz

bmaz — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:51:45 +0000

This child is very promising. Lets get him to a Pac-10 school!

By: klynn

klynn — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:46:23 +0000

He also thinks you should start giving the annual Filipino Monkey Awards. Something like the Golden Globes of political blogs…