Pooch Cafe by Paul Gilligan for January 31, 2017
January 30, 2017
February 01, 2017
Transcript:
Poncho: So are you telling me we can't create a fake dog who's more poorly behaved than me because we can't come up with any misdeeds I haven't already done? Boomer: Yes, that seems to be the case. Poncho: "And when Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer."
From Wiki: It was in Corinth that a meeting between Alexander the Great and Diogenes is supposed to have taken place.30 These stories may be apocryphal. The accounts of Plutarch and Diogenes Laërtius recount that they exchanged only a few words: while Diogenes was relaxing in the morning sunlight, Alexander, thrilled to meet the famous philosopher, asked if there was any favour he might do for him. Diogenes replied, “Yes, stand out of my sunlight”. Alexander then declared, “If I were not Alexander, then I should wish to be Diogenes.”31 In another account of the conversation, Alexander found the philosopher looking attentively at a pile of human bones. Diogenes explained, “I am searching for the bones of your father but cannot distinguish them from those of a slave.”32