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semillama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-28-09 11:10 AM
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Oh, No! It's making well-reasoned arguments
http://www.theonion.com/content/opinion/oh_no_its_making_well_reasoned?utm_source=b-section

"I…I think it's finally over. Our reactionary emotional response seems to have stopped it dead in its tracks. If I'm right, all we have to do now is smugly reiterate our half-formed thesis and—oh, no! For the love of God, no! It's thoughtfully mulling things over!

Run! Run! It's making reasonable, fact-based arguments!

Quickly! Hide behind self-righteousness! The ad hominem rejoinders—ready the ad hominem rejoinders! Watch out! Dodge the issue at hand! Question its character and keep moving haphazardly from one flawed point to the next!

All together now! Put every bit of secondhand conjecture into it you've got!

Goddamn it, nothing's working! It's trapped us in our own unsubstantiated claims! We need to switch fundamentally unsound tactics. Hurry, throw up the straw man! Look, I think it's going for it. C'mon…c'mon…yes, it's going for it! Now hit it with the thing that one guy told us once while it's distracted by our ludicrous rationalizations!"

:rofl:
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TZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-28-09 11:19 AM
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1. lol
It would be fun to post that in the Health Scare lounge...:rofl:
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lizerdbits Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-28-09 12:34 PM
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2. Thanks
Now 2 of my coworkers and myself are trying hard not to piss our pants. :spray: :rofl:
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mr blur Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-28-09 12:58 PM
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3. "It's debate Jim, but not as we know it."
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moggie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-28-09 01:36 PM
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4. Someone stop the citing!
Please, please stop the citing!

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progressoid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-29-09 09:12 AM
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5. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha...!
Post it in GD or Health and watch the irony ensue. I dare ya!
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salvorhardin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-02-09 01:29 PM
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6. ROFL! eom
Edited on Tue Jun-02-09 01:30 PM by salvorhardin
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bluedawg12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-04-09 12:11 AM
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7. Aww. I have an anecdotal for proof!
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