Yet There Is Method In It

I don’t normally post sports news but:

“NEW YORK—Struggling to find purpose in life after his realization that the Giants’ 13-12 victory over the Ravens Sunday night would have no bearing on the team’s standings, tight end Jeremy Shockey has been questioning whether preseason games have any purpose, meaning, or even reality in and of themselves.” Full Story at The Onion

I encountered this medieval joke, reported to have actually happened, when the French King Charles the Bald entertained the famous philosopher and theologian John Scotus Erigena.

The King asks: Quid distat inter sottum et Scottum? (What separates a sot (drunkard) from a Scot?) Eriugena replied, Mensa tantum (Only a table).