Proof by intimidation - inspired by a background of a different color

[LukkyKnight]

Every Horse has an Infinite Number of Legs

(What follows is proof by intimidation)

Horses have an even number of legs.
Behind they have two legs, and in front they have fore-legs.
This makes six legs, which is certainly an odd number of legs for a horse.
But the only number that is both even and odd is infinity.
Therefore, horses have an infinite number of legs.

Now to show this for the general case, suppose that:
somewhere, there is a horse that has a finite number of legs.
But that is a horse of another color, and by the (above) lemma
("All horses are the same color"), that does not exist.''

 

[modest mouse]

LK,

Put down the hash pipe!

 

[Starfish]

LK,

Put down the hash pipe!

Hey, I spend most of my hash smoking time thinking about Quantum Physics. WTF are you incinuating here?

 

[u2slow13]

Every Horse has an Infinite Number of Legs

(What follows is proof by intimidation)

Horses have an even number of legs.
Behind they have two legs, and in front they have fore-legs.
This makes six legs, which is certainly an odd number of legs for a horse.
But the only number that is both even and odd is infinity.
Therefore, horses have an infinite number of legs.

Now to show this for the general case, suppose that:
somewhere, there is a horse that has a finite number of legs.
But that is a horse of another color, and by the (above) lemma
("All horses are the same color"), that does not exist.''

and your point is??

 

[LukkyKnight]

Re: Re: Proof by intimidation - inspired by a background of a different color

and your point is??

To make you reply.
I was originally aiming to make you think, but I wanted an attainable goal.

 

[Weird Harold]

Proof by intimidation?

What follows is proof by intimidation

MS Word's thesaurus function cites Frightening, fright, browbeating, compulsion, coercion, dread, extortion, terrorizing, scaring, and fear, as being synonyms for intimidation.

Did you mean intimation, or maybe inference.

 

[LukkyKnight]

LOL

WH, you are above intimidation by such verbal circumlocution, but

1) there are those for whom the assembled sequence of statements alone is intimidating, and

2) you have to imagine me pacing rapidly to and fro whilst waving my arms animatedly - a slightly-crazed, never-akimbo look about my eyes - my hair done up a la Einstein, and speaking in a loud voice.