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Don’t contemplate the following question, just hit me with a comment/answer, quick like, to the following.

What’s the first thing you know?

Pfeif, you’re disqualified.

Posted by on 04/01 at 07:30 AM

  1. When you’re dead? 

    Forgive me if I’m not citing the correct obscure reference.

    Posted by Jon Henke  on  04/01  at  09:34 AM

  2. "When youre dead"

    Nope, but a short answer is on the track.

    Posted by  on  04/01  at  09:44 AM

  3. lung.


    lung.

    (lung likes winning contests. lung is sad when she loses contests. a sad lung is a glowing, hard x-ray-emitting lung. please keep this in mind. is there a prize? donut?)

    Posted by lung  on  04/01  at  10:14 AM

  4. “lung.”

    Nope.  I will still reward a lung a donut.  It’ll be on the front porch.

    Posted by  on  04/01  at  10:18 AM

  5. That you don’t know.

    Posted by bithead  on  04/01  at  11:16 AM

  6. "That you don’t know."

    Nope.  It’s the first thing you know.

    Posted by  on  04/01  at  11:45 AM

  7. Yourself

    Posted by  on  04/01  at  12:31 PM

  8. “Yourself.”

    Wrong, Wiz.  On the bright side, there are only 23 days until trout season opens.

    Posted by  on  04/01  at  01:04 PM

  9. My first memory, believe it or don’t, is of the the idea of injustice--done unto me in the moment before, of course. It is conceiveable to me that some violent tearing, some act of willful self-separation, might be the defining instant of conceptual fluency. Not, “this is me” qua concept, but “all the rest of this is not me.”

    What do I win?

    Posted by Greg Swann  on  04/01  at  02:41 PM

  10. What do I win?

    Sorry, Greg, you don’t win.  You contemplated and weren’t supposed to.  Your answer is too complicated.

    Posted by  on  04/01  at  02:59 PM

  11. I exist.

    Posted by BilLee Miller  on  04/01  at  04:27 PM

  12. "I exist."

    Nope.  But it’s a great, quick response.

    Posted by  on  04/01  at  05:33 PM

  13. Old Jed’s a Millionaire.

    Posted by  on  04/01  at  07:09 PM

  14. Since I had time to “think” about it
    I am now disqualified, but hey, thats fine...How about love?

    Posted by  on  04/01  at  08:05 PM

  15. Damn it, Alan Anick, I should’ve disqualified you, too.  I owe you.

    Posted by  on  04/01  at  08:22 PM

  16. Hunger

    Posted by triticale  on  04/01  at  09:37 PM

  17. Sorry, I couldn’t resist.

    Posted by  on  04/01  at  11:12 PM

  18. Existence.

    Posted by Billy Beck  on  04/02  at  05:44 AM

  19. Thanks to everyone who dropped a note to the question “What’s the first thing you know?” Alan Anick, who I should’ve disqualified also, posted the answer I was looking for, “Old Jed’s a millionaire,” from the Beverly Hillbillies song.

    The story behind the question entails many bottles of red wine, a late night into early A.M. philosophical discussion, and passionate voices which needed to be brought back to sanity.  I thought it was funny.

    Posted by  on  04/02  at  06:59 AM

  20. Hm...I thought you were going for an obscure reference to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.  They asked a similar question. 

    The Beverly Hillbillies I never would have guessed. 

    Posted by Jon Henke  on  04/02  at  07:51 AM

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