2003-08-07

gridlore: Doug looking off camera with a grin (Default)
2003-08-07 08:25 am

New logical fallacies

For your Usenet pleasure:

Argumentum ad Imperium (I am the King of the World, therefore I am right)
Argumentum ad Conundrum (I'm confused, therefore I am right)
Argumentum ad Snaredrum (I'm a drummer and can't figure out what you're talking about, therefore I am right)
Argumentum ad Unum (I only know one argument, therefore I am right)
Argumentum ad Celebatium (I can't get laid, therefore I am right)
Argumentum ad Gnosis (I have proof that I'm right, but it's secret proof that I can't show you.)
Argumentum ad Deum (God tells me that I'm right and you're wrong)
Argumentum ad Non Dictio (I don't want to talk about it because I know I'm right)
Argumentum ad Popularium (I am famous, therefore I am right)
Argumentum ad Chrysafi (I am rich, therefore I am right)
Argumentum ad Femalia (I am woman, therefore I am right)
Argumentum ad Asylum ["they"'re after me, so obviously I'm right]
Argumentum ad Imodium [I just can't stop coming out with this crap]
Argumentum ad Quotemarkium (I'll put "quotes" around your "terms", therefore I'm "right")

and, of course:
Argumentum ad Stupiditas (I'm smart, all you guys are stupid, so I'm right. Nyah! Nyah!)
gridlore: Doug looking off camera with a grin (Default)
2003-08-07 09:31 am

Say WHAT?

This just showed up in us.military.army, under the subject line "INFIDEL IS FINISH"

Ha ha hees

We obliterate your granny in firewood and poke sticks in her;; we
takes your aeroflots and stopp them behind moone;; we have bicycles
even if you read Quoran we fillen holes up in string veste ha ha ha;!

We have Twee-do-da-dum - you haves no things.

What will Bush do and Blairs do? Drinks theyselfs to their toasts;!!!

Picnic indidels; picnic very hards;;!


This is either:

a: a troll
b: a tragic failure of some ESL program, or
c: instructions from the Secret Masters

(I'm picnicking as hard as I can!)
gridlore: Doug looking off camera with a grin (drama)
2003-08-07 09:46 am
gridlore: Doug looking off camera with a grin (drama)
2003-08-07 01:21 pm

More fun with Engrish!

From the latest mail haul:

Good morning Sweetheart partner.
Are you Customer ? Good, what can you tender to me? Nothing? ...
Anyway I want to bid you a 100% Free bounty - ticket to aduIt site.


I am so using this the next time I run a Traveller game that involves merchants...
gridlore: Doug looking off camera with a grin (M-16)
2003-08-07 01:56 pm

More fallacies!

These are coming from a thread on alt.atheism, I should point out..

Argumentum ad Gnosis Ridiculum (I have proof, but I won't show it to you because you'll make fun of it)
Argumentum ad Cosina (The proof was revealed to me in my kitchen, and it might be revealed to you too if you go to your kitchen)
Argumentum ad Deweyum (The book that supports my claim is not filed under "fiction" in the library, therefore it must be true)
Argumentum ad Triforcium (I have two other sock puppets that agree with me, therefore I am right)
Argumentum ad non Complementum (You won't say anything nice about me, therefore I am right)
Argumentum ad Repetitio (I've used this argument before, therefor I am right)
Argumentum ad Non Intelligens (You just don't understand, therefore I am right.)
Argumentum ad Densitas (I can't imagine any alternative, therefore I am right.)
Argumentum ad Mulus (I refuse to imagine any alternative, therefore I am right.)
Argumentum ad Confidentia (I can't be wrong, therefore I must be right.)
Argumentum ad Fides (It seems right to me, and that's good enough for me.
Argumentum Tri-iterum (What I say three times is true)
Argumentum ad Crematorium [I'm right, if you don't agree you'll burn in Hell]
Argumentum ad Pendulum [I keep switching back and forth but no matter what I say I am right]
Argumentum ad Knuckleheadium [If I call you 'knucklehead' often enough, you'll go away and I'll be right)
Argumentum ad Rectolocutus (I know I'm talking out my ass, but I'm still right)
Argumentum ad Dimicoare (I have a gun, therefore I am right)
Argumentum ad libidoum (your wife secretly wants me, therefore I'm right)