Proverbs: Everybody’s Somebody’s Mother

“Fine words doth butter no parsnips” or so a man once said. Well, boy howdy, are your boys buttering up a big ‘ole batch of proverbs this week. We talk about our favorite sententious sayings in this episode and attempt to solve what science, art, and religion have failed to do: to answer “what is a proverb?” and “are we friends?” “The Perception of Proverbiality” from Wise Words: Essays on the Proverb By: Shirley L Arora Chicken Sexing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick_sexing Burgess Meredith: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burgess_Meredith Downtime with John and Emily: https://www.getdowney.com/downtime-podcast/ Pikachu Surprise Face Meme: https://www.google.com/search?safe=off&biw=1054&bih=978&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=QDbyW7W1Eqqc_QbF75-wCQ&q=PIkachu+suprized+face+meme&oq=PIkachu+suprized+face+meme&gs_l=img.3...11093.13662..14254...0.0..0.88.698.9......1....1..gws-wiz-img.......0i7i30j0i7i10i30.nsPxaW6S5qQ The Yattering and Jack: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Books_of_Blood#Volume_One “The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.” Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality, p. 39 [Free Press, 1979]