fallacious (adj.) – misleading;
deceptive
for
your edification: Well this one’s just fantastic – almost like
a universal truth. I know that you are
(or have been) in a literature class.
Certainly, at some point in your career as a literature student, you
have encountered phallic symbols. Of
course you have – maybe the protagonist is riding a huge rocket, or perhaps
he’s wielding his slippery sword with bravado.
I dunno. Maybe the female
character in the otherwise humdrum story you were supposed to read on Tuesday
night (but didn’t because America’s Next Top One-Legged Pie Chef was on) spent
six paragraphs describing in detail the banana she was craving. It wasn’t a banana! He wasn’t riding a rocket! It’s not literally
a sword! It’s a phallic symbol, shaped
like a phallus. After that introduction,
we can now relate this to our word: fallacious. That word, fallacious, sounds an awful lot like phallus, doesn’t it? Okay: stick with me. I have a rhetorical question for you
here. What percent of men worldwide do
you think are misleading others
about their size of their rocket/sword/banana?
I’d conjecture that 98% of worldwide men are deceptive regarding their rocket size. They are fallacious
regarding their phallus. Phallusacious,
if you will. No – don’t. Just say fallacious
instead.
examplification -
Muffy:
Um, wow. You know that guy Rod
Johnson in our physics class?
Mitzi: Totally. He’s a legend.
Muffy: My friend, no. I let him take me to the Tastee Shack last Saturday night, and I can now personally attest that Big Rod’s name is completely deceptive. I was duped into a date based on fallacious information.
Mitzi: We were all misled by the case of the Fallacious Phallus.
Muffy: Hey, look! There goes Peter Longwood! Peter!
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