Socrates was fantastic. He had an incredible reputation for taking things that seemed completely unrelated, and using them to argue his points. My favorite analogy that I created was a defense of one of my friends scathing messages about famous people that was done on the basis of assuming that he was like a person who flipped pancakes. Socrates did stuff like this. He would just make analogies like 'Butter is like a dog with a hat.' Of course, nobody would accept that, but within a few pages, he'd have everybody believing it like it had been written in some ancient religious text.

I have to respect Socrates for being able to do stuff like that. He's the grandmaster of convincing/confusing argument.