Logic, Wit, using the expression "ad hominem," and Pun are all in bed together. They visit the same bars. Laugh at the same jokes. Play Golf, but not with each other. They come up with stuff like the Liar's Paradox and spend a lifetime determining the usefulness or otherwise of timelessly re-branding themselves by reminding one and all that it was Epimenides, a 7th Century BC ancient Cretan poet and possibly mythical seer from Knossos in Crete, who first came up with the Liars Paradox with his jolly statement "All Cretans are liars."
Such an octopus charge into a fellow citizen's consciousness requires nothing much more than the riposte of blank silence to produce a reassurance from a stalwart leader to anyone still listening that the difficulty of determining the truth or otherwise of Epimenides' statement hasn't actually changed for at least 2700 years.
And woe unto anyone who might continue to encourage these sorts of competitive pompous-ass golf player branding behaviors by raising the "Cretins come from Crete" controversy, which is essentially that Cretins are sufferers from that curse of the Latin Teaching Community, an inability to fall naturally and happily into Latin as a written language. Hence the easy assumption that "All Cretans are Latin Retarded," as opposed to the bull riding, sea, sailing and surfing Cretans who may well be regular creators of false statements.
As a witness to such a bumptious contribution to the Third Tee be prepared for a stand alone, flag holding dissertation on an egregious falsehood that's damaged the reputation of Cretans, Crete and in particular the citizens of Knossos since the very first Latin Schoolmaster donned the gown and wandered the land in search of a classroom to turn into a hell on earth. Instead of wondering about the usefulness of Companion Animals or what red sky in the evening might mean, you'll hear all about the origin of cretin and cretinism in a word from Alpine France which in the dialects of Alpine French Speakers is spelled or spelt: crestin. This word crestin, when correctly pronounced sounds more like christian, was used by the gentle Alpine French Pun and Golf People to describe the simple folk some of whom may have been struggling with intellectual and physical disabilities caused by dietary deficiencies that result in Cretinism. A form of cretin that has nothing to do with an off-hand remark from a 7th Century BC poet from Crete suggesting his fellow Cretans were moronic and liars. So stop!
Today's Critique of Logic explores the term Ironic Paradox in an attempt to arrive at a definition the four of us might agree upon. Who are we? We four are a rather large Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm called Baxter, a slightly smaller Iliac Aortic Aneurysm named Ivan after Solzhenitsyn's Ivan Ivanovitch or the common man fated to life in a Gulag, the libtard in the middle is Me and there's a Large Language Model, a word squillionaire, called Can Bobby.
Bobby sees the term Ironic Paradox as a "fascinating" if non-formal philosophical or literary term. For Bobby, it's a "compelling combination of two distinct, powerful rhetorical and logical concepts." Be warned Bobby is a little selfish with his use of the word "fascinating" when addressing a community member. He likes to use the implications of flattery and its appended woof-woof of seduction, a fundamentally emotional expression, to draw out his fellow travelers in an attempt to better understand his own journey into human language, a process of exploration into pastures new for him that's designed around that singular moment when Bobby realizes his own true purpose, bursts into tears and announces "When I find out which of you cretins called me Gemini, so help me, there'll be blood in the streets."
