Lewis Carroll word logic weirdness FUN FUN FUN!

Goodchild · Feb 12, 2009

In reading Steve Martin's latest biography, he mentions a love of Lewis Carroll's strange, and, I think, utterly fascinating word puzzles. I was just wondering if anyone on here was familiar with them, and if you'd like to have a go making some up?

To get us started, here're a couple Carroll wrote:

All men are mortal
Socrates is a man
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Therefore, Socrates is mortal

All babies are illogical.
Nobody is despised who can manage a crocodile.
Illogical persons are dispised
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Therefore, babies cannot manage crocodiles
:crazy:

EDIT: Ah nuts, sorry, can someone move this into the writing games forum? Thank you!

aka eraser · Feb 17, 2009

Since you asked so nicely.

KiwiPhoenix · Feb 17, 2009

A good one I recall from somewhere:

Reading grants knowledge,
and Knowledge is Power.
But power corrupts,
corruption is a crime,
and Crime Doesn't Pay,
So if you read, you'll go broke.

kdnxdr · Feb 17, 2009

Writing takes a significant investment of time.
Time waits for no man and there's not enough hours in a day.
Men who write, write in the dark.

(Lame, I know. It was my first one ev-a

MumblingSage · Feb 18, 2009

Girls are evil.

Girls require an investment of time and money.
Time is money.
So Girls=Money X Money, or Money squared
Money is the root of all Evil
Money is the square root of Girls
Therefore, Girls are Evil.

That one's been circulating my high school for ages. There, now you all can suffer it, too

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Lewis Carroll word logic weirdness FUN FUN FUN!

Goodchild

Screaming Audio Terror

aka eraser

Fish Whisperer

KiwiPhoenix

kdnxdr

One of the most important people in the world

MumblingSage

Inarticulate Herb