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I've heard this somewhere....
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um.ok.
did you intend to post that in the war forum?
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Originally posted by Spliffdaddy:
um.ok.
did you intend to post that in the war forum?
Waaaah waaaaaah waaaaaaaaaaaaah!
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HEAT-SEEKING QUESTION:
The intent here is to throw the other person's competence in doubt while at the same time changing the subject. A question is asked that the other person is not likely to know the answer to, destroying their credibility and confidence. To really rub it in, the questioner can give a full answer to his/her own question proving that him/herself to have superior knowledge of the subject.
"You mentioned the constitution. Can you quote the preamble for us?"
"Do you realize which of the dialectic principles you've just violated?" [ "No."] "I'd be glad to explain them to you, but (branch to OVER YOUR HEAD)."
 
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LUNATIC FRINGE:
If a person is making an imaginative or novel point, the approach here is to push the idea to a radical extreme generally agreed to be bad. The extreme can be either real or imagined. The hope here is that the other person will reflexively back off and retreat to a defensive position, thus short-circuiting the progression of the argument.
"So you think we ought to just throw out the whole system, then?"
"How is that different from classic fascism?"
"So you would just like to kill off anyone who disagrees with you, it appears!"
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This should be a sticky.
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"This show is filmed before a live studio audience as soon as someone removes that dead guy!" - Stephen Colbert
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Originally posted by lil'babykitten:
Waaaah waaaaaah waaaaaaaaaaaaah!
BOMBAST:
A rhetorical ploy to give more emotional force to a point or objection than is appropriate.
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Originally posted by CRASH HARDDRIVE:
BOMBAST:
A rhetorical ploy to give more emotional force to a point or objection than is appropriate.
Ah- Ah-
NAME IT:
To the feebleminded, if there is a NAME used as a label for IT, then it must be wrong, even if it isn't. The NAME, now a "proof" of sorts, can be used as a sledgehammer if IT comes up again.
"The case you just made was first made by Edgar Sullivan in the late 1800s and was quickly disproved. The 'Sullivan Error' inevitably occurs to people when they first start studying the subject."
"Your line of reasoning is called the MacGregor Phenomenon."
"Why, that's Calvinism!"
-CHOO!
Oh, excuse me. That was one very long sneeze.
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Originally posted by BlackGriffen:
Ah- Ah-
-CHOO!
Oh, excuse me. That was one very long sneeze.
BG
Gesundheit.
I may have been guilty of something on the list for pointing up lil'babykitten's use of Bombast (heck every other post on MacNN fits somewhere on that list!)- but 'Name it?' 
I dunno about that one!
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Originally posted by CRASH HARDDRIVE:
Gesundheit.
I may have been guilty of something on the list for pointing up lil'babykitten's use of Bombast (heck every other post on MacNN fits somewhere on that list!)- but 'Name it?'
I dunno about that one!
All you liberals are alike! You never take responsibility for anything.
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Originally posted by CRASH HARDDRIVE:
I may have been guilty of something on the list for pointing up lil'babykitten's use of Bombast (heck every other post on MacNN fits somewhere on that list!)- but 'Name it?'
I did look, but I couldn't really find one that applied! So you get a few instead!
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