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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 1 of 2 1 2 Meaningless Words Part II #12484 12/08/00 07:29 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 M maverick OP Carpal Tunnel OP maverick Carpal Tunnel M Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 Continuing from (or with) Meaningless Words http:////wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=wordplay&Number=7358&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&part=all&vc=1 Faldage wrote: This is funny but it also demonstrates the fallacy of denying the antecedent. http://www.intrepidsoftware.com/fallacy/deny.htm It's still funny. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- wow wrote: I have a headache! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bobyoungboult wrote: >The Perils of wrong thinking The Philosophers Song The verse I learned was, "Great Empedocles, to prove his soul, jumped into Aetna and was roasted whole." And apropos of the barber paradox, seems to me that after all that heavy discussion, we could make very profitable use of Occam's razor ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- tsuwm wrote: the philosopher's song: http:////wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=words&Number=1910 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Capital Kiwi wrote: Re: The perils of wrong thinking Thanks for the reference, tsuwm. There were several versions of this song sung by MP on tour. This doesn't mean that I'm saying my quote was correct, though. The best one was at a concert in LA. Idle was clearly right off his face on something very, very nice, because he went right through the show with a stupid smile on his face. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Meaningless Words Part II #12485 12/10/00 12:12 AM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,891 B belMarduk Carpal Tunnel belMarduk Carpal Tunnel B Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,891 Thanks for that thread change there Mav. It was getting so long to load and it invariably caused my comp. to freeze up. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Meaningless Words Part II #12486 12/10/00 09:38 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 M maverick OP Carpal Tunnel OP maverick Carpal Tunnel M Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 ... tho' in the perverse manner of this board, maybe another thread will anyhow take over the 'stream of consciousness' role anyway Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Meaningless Words Part II #12487 12/11/00 09:23 AM Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,146 Northamptonshire, England Capital Kiwi Carpal Tunnel Capital Kiwi Carpal Tunnel Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,146 Northamptonshire, England Maverick marvelled: ... tho' in the perverse manner of this board, maybe another thread will anyhow take over the 'stream of consciousness' role anyway ... or the "rivulet of ribaldry" or the "creek of craziness" or the "river of rubbishness" or the "oxbow of oxymorons" or the "meander of maundering" ... The idiot also known as Capfka ... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Meaningless Words Part II #12488 12/11/00 02:29 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,004 London, UK shanks old hand shanks old hand Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,004 London, UK Or the brook of babble, the spring of serendipity, the fountain of frivolity, the raindrop of roses ? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: maundering meanders #12489 12/11/00 04:09 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass are our streams stygian? what can we do about our redundantly riparian river-rats? ...and about those biker fish from hell; are they anadromous or catadromous? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Oxbows #12490 12/11/00 04:30 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 oxbow of oxymorons Of course we all know that oxymoron is itself an oxymoron. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Oxbows #12491 12/11/00 06:32 PM Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,146 Northamptonshire, England Capital Kiwi Carpal Tunnel Capital Kiwi Carpal Tunnel Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,146 Northamptonshire, England Faldage flustered: Of course we all know that oxymoron is itself an oxymoron. Most of us don't analyse stream of consciousness stuff unless we're practising psychologists. I'm not one - are you? The idiot also known as Capfka ... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Oxbows #12492 12/11/00 07:15 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 M maverick OP Carpal Tunnel OP maverick Carpal Tunnel M Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 practising psychologists Practising? I'm a bloody expert, mate Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: psycho #12493 12/11/00 07:31 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Quoth Capital Kiwi: Most of us don't analyse stream of consciousness stuff unless we're practising psychologists. No shrink I, I'm a card carrying Fool Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 1 of 2 1 2 Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. 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