Linda Smith had a nice little joke
based on the idea that Plato was an annoyingly smarmy and meretricious student of Socrates, whom he spent his whole life following around and saying, "Wow! That's a tremendously clever thing to have said! I must write it down!"
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 14 Sep 2009, 12:07, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

But you have to hand it to him.
Socrates never wrote anything down. So much stuff would have been lost.
And you don't know what is Socrates and what is Plato. Socrates could have been a twat; Plato could just be making him make sense.

Or not.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 14 Sep 2009, 12:09, Reply)

Hmmm
At least Plato wasn't above throwing in the odd pun here and there. And he's man enough to admit that most of the dialogues happen at drinking-parties.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 14 Sep 2009, 12:13, Reply)