solipsist comments on Jokes Thread - Less Wrong

25 Post author: JosephY 24 July 2014 12:31AM

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Comment author: solipsist 24 July 2014 02:54:21AM 23 points [-]

All syllogisms have three parts

Therefore, this is not a syllogism

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 24 July 2014 11:39:50AM 3 points [-]

I came up with that.

Comment author: solipsist 24 July 2014 02:32:24PM 5 points [-]

Cool! Before or after 1987?

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 24 July 2014 03:13:27PM 15 points [-]

Was the joke in that book? I'm pretty sure I've never read it, and I remember coming up with the joke.

Early 80s, I think. "All syllogisms" was one of my first mass-produced button slogans-- the business was started in 1977, but I took some years to start mass producing slogans.

My printing records say that I did 3 print runs in 1988, but that plausibly means that I had been selling the button for a while because I don't think I was doing 3 print runs at a time.