The Unemployed Philosopher's Guild

Last week when we went to visit the Indianapolis Museum of Art, we of course browsed through the museum gift shop. Blake found this tiny tin of candies, called Candides, which were produced by a company called the Unemployed Philosopher's Guild. Intrigued, we bought the Candides (which advertise the fact that they are the "best of all possible candies," and which you would find funny if you knew that they are mocking Leibniz, who is in turn mocking Voltaire...or something like that. I myself only know this is funny because Blake told me. He'd make a stellar member of the Unemployed Philosopher's Guild.) We then visited the Unemployed Philosopher's Guild website, which was advertised on the back of the tin.

Ha! Ha! The website is great! You can buy things like Freudian slippers, an Einsteinian Relativity Watch, and my personal favorite, a Euclidian t-shirt ("Here's Looking at Euclid").

The Candides are great too...cherry flavored, and tasty, once you get over the fact that they taste a wee bit like children's cough syrup. The tin they came in, too, is also pretty great. But the best part about the purchase of the Candides is the way Blake offers me one: "Candide?" he says, pronouncing it "can-deed," with an over-emphasized question mark as he holds out the open tin. It makes me laugh every time.