There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, “Morning, boys. How’s the water?” And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes, “What the hell is water?”
You are moments away from either being slaughtered by space clowns or whipped into the air by bondage bird men. Best case, some tall motherfuckers may just toss you into space.
— David Foster Wallace, This is Water
“Fish forget they live in water; people forget they live in the Tao” -Confucius?
What the hell is Tao?
Isn’t is a bunch of space elves?
You are moments away from either being slaughtered by space clowns or whipped into the air by bondage bird men. Best case, some tall motherfuckers may just toss you into space.
Someone will like it no matter what.
Literally translates to “the path” or… “the Way”
Immediately thought of this.
That joke works until you realize we’re perfectly aware of the existence of air.