Boots Philosophy cosmetics

This topic was created by Andrew Orlowski .

  1. Andrew Orlowski
    Holmes

    Boots Philosophy cosmetics

    Excuse me if I am the last person to notice, but Boots' cosmetics brand is called 'Philosophy'. It's Aristotle in a bottle.
    1. Sir Runcible Spoon

      <i>No, I'm the last</i>

      Sorry to burst your bubble Andrew but I'd never heard of it until you mentioned it, now I'm going to have to look it up..damn you!

      How to buy Philosophy

    2. TeeCee Gold badge
      Pint

      I think you've just invented treble rhyming slang and made that an unfortunate name into the bargain:

      Philosophy. Aristotle in a bottle. Bottle and glass.........

      Well done!

    3. frank ly

      Is this related to Diogenes in a barrel?

      Just wondering; because I can see a pattern emerging.

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Occam's Razor

    Nice name for a shaving brand. Simple.

    1. Michael H.F. Wilkinson Silver badge
      Coffee/keyboard

      Nice quote to start the day. Thanks!

  3. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Socrates is a brand of soap (true)

    Nice wrapper.

    1. Andrew Orlowski (Written by Reg staff)

      I wonder what Nietzsche smells like?

      Pretty awful I imagine.

      I want that soap.

      1. Sir Runcible Spoon

        I would have thought Freudian would be a better name for a soap.

        "He gave me a Freudian slip of soap in the shower

  4. Audrey S. Thackeray

    As Socrates almost said

    Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply Philosophy in the right way to themselves are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

    1. Andrew Orlowski (Written by Reg staff)

      A weekend in Doncaster does that too.

    2. Jesper Frimann
      Happy

      Yes but philosophy, is really about beer.

      The Philosopher's Song (Monty Python)

      Immanuel Kant was a real pissant

      Who was very rarely stable. Heidegger,

      Heidegger was a boozy beggar

      Who could think you under the table.

      David Hume could out-consume Wilhelm Freidrich Hegel,

      And Wittgenstein was a beery swine

      Who was just as schloshed as Schlegel.

      There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach ya'

      http://www.metrolyrics.com/the-philosophers-song-lyrics-monty-python.html

      'Bout the raising of the wrist. SOCRATES, HIMSELF, WAS PERMANENTLY PISSED...

      John Stuart Mill, of his own free will,

      On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill.

      Plato, they say, could stick it away;

      Half a crate of whiskey every day.

      Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle,

      Hobbes was fond of his dram,

      And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart:

      "I drink, therefore I am"

      Yes, Socrates, himself, is particularly missed;

      A lovely little thinker but a bugger when he's pissed!

      // Jesper drinking homebrewed beer.

      1. Michael H.F. Wilkinson Silver badge
        Pint

        Re: Yes but philosophy, is really about beer

        Or other alcohol. Plato's Symposion is a get together to drink (literally the meaning of Greek symposion). This is why I always point out to my PhD students that having a drinks together with other scientists is what an international symposium is about (despite the Latinised ending).

  5. Trevor_Pott Gold badge

    We need

    Some SOPA on a rope.

  6. TeeCee Gold badge
    WTF?

    I just don't get it.

    Does anyone know what Philosophy smells like?

    "Hmm, you smell like the struggle to achieve an understanding of the human condition."? How does that work?

    1. Trevor_Pott Gold badge

      "The smell of struggling to understand the human condition."

      Someone bottled the smell of sex and is selling it? The premium edition will be "now with added condom smell?"

  7. Shaun Rolph

    All links like woodpill spam - not working on preview.

    <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiiRiwgiksc>Philosophy</a> <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oHMoiR4p_E>is not dead,</a> <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf8TM4CIk5g>it just smells</a> <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_AW8soxIa8>funny.</a>

    1. BristolBachelor Gold badge
      1. Shaun Rolph

        Thanks for holding my balls...

        It was a privileges thing: inline links are only for Obercommentards (and I'm now scummy enough to float to the top of the bottom of the internet).

  8. jake Silver badge

    Curious.

    Never mind. Nothing to see here. Please move along ;-)

    1. jake Silver badge

      Re: Curious.

      Fascinating ...

      Andrew, care to comment?

      1. jake Silver badge

        Re: Curious.

        My post, above, just showed up as "new" ...

        .. one year after the last post in thread. Which was my post, above.

        I see issues with your backend database. Still ;-)

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