Brand: The Unemployed Philosophers Guild
Color: Planet Bowls
Features:
- If you think our Planet Plates are dreamy, you will love this complete set of eight bowls featuring the same original solar system watercolor portraits. Now any meal can be an interplanetary odyssey. These beautiful Planet Bowls are sturdy enough for the kids' table and worldly enough to travel in grown-up circles. Chicken noodle soup, beans and rice, curry, chili, hearty stew... you name it, you'll want to get to the bottom of it because the planet appears in the bottom of the bowl.
- Ponder the cosmos over your oatmeal! Serve extraterrestrial sukiyaki! Make that weird snack your great-aunt used to make over the stove with breakfast cereal, garlic powder, butter, and nuts - were there nuts? She was an odd bird, your great-aunt. Anyway, it will be better when you pour it into all eight Planet Bowls (why did she always have to make so much?)
- Contents: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. (Pluto not included.)
- Approx. 5-½" diameter, 2" tall, holds 16 oz. 100% melamine. Dishwasher safe. Do not microwave.
- From the Unemployed Philosophers Guild. Don't worry. We are employed, just not as philosophers. We're a small, Brooklyn based company specializing in gifts for the sophisticated gift giver. For whatever you need, we have presents of mind.
Publisher: The Unemployed Philosophers Guild
Details:
Brought to You by The Unemployed Philosophers Guild
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.
UPC: 814229225799
EAN: 814229225799
Package Dimensions: 6.2 x 6.0 x 5.4 inches
Item Condition: New