A wonderful mashup of Plato’s Republic and Reservoir Dogs can be found here.
[Thrasymachus is tied up in a chair. Socrates is brandishing a gun in his face]
Thrasymachus: Don’t kill me, man!
Socrates: Are you finished, fucker?
Thrasymachus: Look, look, man, you can have my ten yoke of oxen. My virgin daughters? My pomegranite orchard?
Socrates: You like pomegranites? Shit, motherfucker, I hear they’ve got a fuckin’ all-you-can-eat special going on on pomegranites where you’re headed.
Thrasymachus: Don’t do it, Socrates. Be fair.
Socrates: [Suddenly contemplative] Fair?
Thrasymachus: [Sees an opportunity for survival] Yeah, fair… think about my wife and children —
Socrates: Would you say that to be fair is the same thing as to be just? [Republic Dogs] [via Boing Boing]
If philosophy class had been like this maybe I wouldn’t have done so badly in it.