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The Unemployed Philosophers Guild

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wi****@yahoo.comOct 8 2017, 12:50 pm

There is something is magical about waking up in the morning and still seeing the night sky with your cup of coffee. This cup is sturdy and great for any space or star lover and it ships very quickly.

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NI****@AOL.COMApr 17 2018, 6:15 pm

I purchased these plates for my 9 year old grandson for his birthday. I know this seems like an odd gift for a child but He loves everything about planets. They are beautiful, plastic(melamine) shiny full size dishes. He loved them. His favorite is Saturn. He eats off a different planet everyday. They are very colorful, look exactly like the pictures, no surprises. The only con is they are not microwaveable. Apollo Box has great sales, so I didn’t pay listed price,a bonus when you sign up for email . This is my 9th purchase, love this store for un-ordinary items. AMB

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Rhonda V.May 29 2018, 4:41 am

Plates are ssssoooo neat!

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The origins of the Unemployed Philosophers Guild are shrouded in mystery. Some accounts trace the Guild's birth to Athens in the latter half of the 4th century BCE. Allegedly, several lesser philosophers grew weary of the endless Socratic dialogue endemic in their trade and turned to crafting household implements and playthings. (Hence the assertions that Socrates quaffed his hemlock poison from a Guild-designed chalice, though vigorous debate surrounds the question of whether it was a "disappearing" chalice.)

Others argue that the UPG dates from the High Middle Ages, when the Philosophers Guild entered the world of commerce by selling bawdy pamphlets to pilgrims facing long lines for the restroom. Business boomed until 1211 when Pope Innocent III condemned the publications. Not surprisingly, this led to increased sales, even as half our membership was burned at the stake.

More recently, revisionist historians have pinpointed the birth of the Guild to the time it was still cool to live in New York City's Lower East Side. Two brothers turned their inner creativity and love of paying rent towards fulfilling the people's needs for finger puppets, warm slippers, coffee cups, and cracking up at stuff.

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