"A twisted and consequentially nonsensical aphorism, such as "birds of a feather gather no moss"."

"Named after Lord Dundreary, a foolish aristocrat in Tom Taylor's play Our American Cousin (1858), who utters remarks of this kind; +‎ -ism."

from https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Dundrearyism

Water under the dam at this point, what what?