“Listen up! The first rule of Tautology Club is the first rule of Tautology Club.” is pretty good.
I still like my version better, though.
By James Grimmelmann
Associate Professor
New York Law School
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“Listen up! The first rule of Tautology Club is the first rule of Tautology Club.” is pretty good.
I still like my version better, though.
john walker
James,
Is there a formal term for Statements like Grouchos
” I wouldn’t join any club that would have me as a member”?
I know that Its not quite of the nature of ’ impossible statements’ ,but it is wonder-full, Oscar Wild:
” It is only shallow people who do not judge appearances, the mystery of the world is in the visible, not the invisible”
john walker
Not my morning Should read
It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances, the mystery of the world is in the visible, not the invisibleā
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