The process of invoking Screwy Logic. Invalid, inconsistent.
skilled in scrogic b :invalid : illogical
2 : incapable of reasoning or of using reason in an orderly cogent fashion <an illogical thinker>
The engineering department came up with this plan to put screen doors on our submarine. It's completely scrogical.
Well, it looks good on paper, but it's scrogical. It willnever work like that.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)