Comments on: May Day Around the World: Oxford http://virtualstoa.net/2008/05/03/may-day-around-the-world-oxford/ Chris Brooke's Weblog Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:36:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Chris Brooke http://virtualstoa.net/2008/05/03/may-day-around-the-world-oxford/#comment-210508 Chris Brooke Mon, 05 May 2008 14:36:22 +0000 http://virtualstoa.net/2008/05/03/may-day-around-the-world-oxford/#comment-210508 A friend of mine was supposed to come up from London to film the occasion - but he didn't make it. So no film - which is, indeed, a shame. (Pre-phylloxera claret is, I think, a two-parts Ronald Dworkin to one part All Souls joke.) A friend of mine was supposed to come up from London to film the occasion - but he didn’t make it. So no film - which is, indeed, a shame.

(Pre-phylloxera claret is, I think, a two-parts Ronald Dworkin to one part All Souls joke.)

]]> By: Patchen http://virtualstoa.net/2008/05/03/may-day-around-the-world-oxford/#comment-210489 Patchen Mon, 05 May 2008 14:14:26 +0000 http://virtualstoa.net/2008/05/03/may-day-around-the-world-oxford/#comment-210489 Oh, my. I wish I had seen it. I don't suppose it'll make its way onto YouTube (along with that World Bank song).... Not that I'd turn down a chance to taste pre-phylloxera claret, but it's also not the first thing I'd liberate, were I to be engaged in the liberation of the contents of Oxford wine-cellars. I expect the older port and Sauternes will have held up better. Oh, my. I wish I had seen it. I don’t suppose it’ll make its way onto YouTube (along with that World Bank song)….

Not that I’d turn down a chance to taste pre-phylloxera claret, but it’s also not the first thing I’d liberate, were I to be engaged in the liberation of the contents of Oxford wine-cellars. I expect the older port and Sauternes will have held up better.

]]> By: Chris Brooke http://virtualstoa.net/2008/05/03/may-day-around-the-world-oxford/#comment-210409 Chris Brooke Mon, 05 May 2008 12:02:58 +0000 http://virtualstoa.net/2008/05/03/may-day-around-the-world-oxford/#comment-210409 I don't think so. The comments I heard about the banner were entirely positive. Even the ones that included the words, "what's pre-phylloxera claret"? I don’t think so. The comments I heard about the banner were entirely positive. Even the ones that included the words, “what’s pre-phylloxera claret”?

]]> By: Josephine http://virtualstoa.net/2008/05/03/may-day-around-the-world-oxford/#comment-210181 Josephine Mon, 05 May 2008 00:56:34 +0000 http://virtualstoa.net/2008/05/03/may-day-around-the-world-oxford/#comment-210181 Did he mind about the banner? Did he mind about the banner?

]]> By: Chris Brooke http://virtualstoa.net/2008/05/03/may-day-around-the-world-oxford/#comment-210154 Chris Brooke Sun, 04 May 2008 22:55:11 +0000 http://virtualstoa.net/2008/05/03/may-day-around-the-world-oxford/#comment-210154 It was almost entirely stand-up comedy, including impersonations of his undergraduate Philosophy professors from all those years ago in McGill, plus Anthony Quinton, Gilbert Ryle, Isaiah Berlin and others in Oxford. And it was very funny indeed. It was almost entirely stand-up comedy, including impersonations of his undergraduate Philosophy professors from all those years ago in McGill, plus Anthony Quinton, Gilbert Ryle, Isaiah Berlin and others in Oxford. And it was very funny indeed.

]]> By: Patchen http://virtualstoa.net/2008/05/03/may-day-around-the-world-oxford/#comment-210146 Patchen Sun, 04 May 2008 22:32:03 +0000 http://virtualstoa.net/2008/05/03/may-day-around-the-world-oxford/#comment-210146 (Without disagreeing with Josephine for even a moment) What was Cohen's lecture about, and how was it? (Without disagreeing with Josephine for even a moment) What was Cohen’s lecture about, and how was it?

]]> By: Josephine http://virtualstoa.net/2008/05/03/may-day-around-the-world-oxford/#comment-210079 Josephine Sun, 04 May 2008 18:33:52 +0000 http://virtualstoa.net/2008/05/03/may-day-around-the-world-oxford/#comment-210079 How handsome you are. How handsome you are.

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