For example, given the premise: "all fish live under water," and "all mackerel are fish," my wife will conclude not that "all mackerel live under water," but that if she buys kippers it will not rain, or that all trout live in trees, or even that I do not love her any more...
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because it is not logical.
"There will be no supper tonight!" she sometimes cries upon my return home
"Because I have been screwing the milkman all day," she will say, quite oblivious of the howling error she has made.
"Why not?" I will ask. "Because I have been screwing the milkman all day." she will reply, quite oblivious to the howling error she has just made.
I know this quote and I want to attribute it to Monty Python, but now I'm not sure...
"but", i will wearily point out, "given the activities of screwing the milkman and getting my supper are mutually exclusive, given that the screwing is over, surely then supper may now logically be got."
(omg, i know i'm totally messing up these quotes... but it's been stuck in my head all day in it's totally messed up way..."
"if you did, then i would not have to rely on that rancid Pakistani for my orgasms"
"I will give you one, after you have gotten me my supper" I now often scream
god is love. love is blind. therefore, it stands to reason that...yes, that's right - Ray Charles is God.
(RIP, Richard Jeni -- and Ray Charles)
"I'm afraid I seem to have strayed somewhat from my original brief. But in a nutshell: sex is more fun than logic. One cannot prove this, but it is, in the same sense that Mount Everest is, or that Alma Cogan isn't."
@lil p: ♥ <# <3
"but not before" as you see, now making her bang contingent on the arrival of my supper
hey Val!!! it's the Logician's chapter from The Album of the Soundtrack of the Trailer to the Film of Monty Python and the Holy Grail !!! bien sur!!!

this, she calls, is using her intuition. I call it crap, and it gets me very IRRITATED...