Just a brief post today to share a wonderful site documenting the various types of "fallacies" that you may hear when the troglodytes try to argue with you.
The site is The Nizkor Project, and it contain the work of Dr. Michael C. Labossiere, the author of a tutorial named Fallacy Tutorial Pro 3.0.
Very informational, and also entertaining... check it out at The Nizkor Project.
Monday, October 19, 2009
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Hey, csm, you ought to see if you can get some stimulus money for this blog. :)
Who, exactly, are the troglodytes?
Hey, if you have to ask, Cow, you might be one! {wink}
Stimulus money for a blog? Really? Where d'ya think might I go to fill out those forms?
I had to look up troglodytes as an exercise in self-education. D&D I assume CSM? That does explain a lot! Ha Ha
Actually I first encountered "troglodyte" with the minor hit by the Billy Castor Bunch which had a song by that name. The song also will introduce you to Bertha Butt and the Butt Sisters. Ahhh, the memeories.
I came about the word the same way as Bawdy... ba-dump-dump-dum-ah-dump
Troglodyte was originally a term used long long ago to refer to men who were 'cave dwellers', namely in that part of Cappadochia where they did indeed excavate their homes in the mountains. The word basically had connotations not unlike 'caveman' would in this age. They were supposed to be crude, primitive, uncouth, etc, etc, etc.
Bob, you don't write commercial scripts for Geico, do you?
So easy, even a troglodyte could do it?
Nope. Sure didn't.
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