# It makes perfect sense, honestly. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 12, 2003, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-makes-perfect-sense-honestly/212791 "2003-11-12T12:08:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2003, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-makes-perfect-sense-honestly/212791/1 "2003-11-12T12:08:15Z")
Bacon is tasty. Vanilla ice cream is tasty. Therefore Vaniila and Bacon ice cream should be an instant hit! Oh! the power of logic! [sub]In case you were wondering, this thread is intended to be a showcase for that which is unsound, but can be logically determined[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Blackdragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@Blackdragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackdragon)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2003, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-makes-perfect-sense-honestly/212791/2 "2003-11-12T12:14:11Z")
I’m nobody. Nobody is perfect. Therefore, I’m perfect. Is this your intention? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2003, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-makes-perfect-sense-honestly/212791/3 "2003-11-12T12:18:28Z")
Could be… ---
**Author:** ![grimpixie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecb155/32.png) [@grimpixie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grimpixie)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2003, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-makes-perfect-sense-honestly/212791/4 "2003-11-12T12:49:23Z")
[From Monty Python’s _Quest for the Holy Grail_](http://www.republika.pl/thejoke/sketch/logician.html) > [@](#): > > … given the premise, ‘all fish live underwater’ and ‘all mackerel are fish’, my wife will conclude, not that ‘all mackerel live underwater’, but that ‘if she buys kippers it will not rain’, or that ‘trout live in trees’, or even that ‘I do not love her any more.’ This she calls ‘using her intuition’. I call it ‘crap’, and it gets me very irritated because it is not logical. 😃 Grim ---
**Author:** ![Genghis\_Bob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/45deac/32.png) [@Genghis\_Bob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Genghis_Bob)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2003, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-makes-perfect-sense-honestly/212791/5 "2003-11-12T12:58:28Z")
“Time waits for no man.” “No man is an island.” Therefore, “Time waits for an island.” ---
**Author:** ![Tansu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@Tansu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tansu)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2003, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-makes-perfect-sense-honestly/212791/6 "2003-11-12T13:02:07Z")
That’s exactly what Time does. It waits for all the islands in the Pacific near the Date Line to come around as the Earth rotates on its axis, and when they get there, Time starts a new day. ---
**Author:** ![DrMemory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@DrMemory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrMemory)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2003, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-makes-perfect-sense-honestly/212791/7 "2003-11-12T13:15:46Z")
Now, Who can argue with that? ---
**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2003, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-makes-perfect-sense-honestly/212791/8 "2003-11-12T13:39:23Z")
God is love. Love is blind. Ray Charles is blind. Therefore… Ray Charles is god. Well, it made sense at the time. ---
**Author:** ![One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/838e76/32.png) [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/One_And_Only_Wanderers)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2003, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-makes-perfect-sense-honestly/212791/9 "2003-11-12T14:00:07Z")
From Pratchett Knowledge = power power = energy energy = matter matter = mass; a good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.