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‘You know what item I refuse to touch? Bathroom spoons.’
‘There’s very little textile work in database design, although I can almost guarantee you that the reverse is not true.’
‘If there is one thing you can say about Isaac Newton, it’s that he was made of meat. ‘
‘If you can’t do the math, then you shouldn’t buy the robot.’
‘That’s how they used to measure time, in number of unicorns.’
‘You say you worked on Wall Street, but you didn’t know about the tacos?’
‘How many organic marshmallow farmers do you think there are in the world?’
‘With friends like these, who needs mixed metaphors.’
‘There’s no such thing as a circle, ever! ‘
‘If you drink reverse polarity water, do you fart a tachyon pulse?’
‘Maybe you need a special brand of wood glue for Calculus?’
‘Right now my internet connection is breaking up due to fish.’
‘Rap doesn’t have many tuba solos.’
‘Yes, yes. We all wanted our ears to be a magical source of money.’
‘How often do you banjoodle, in a formal atmosphere anyway?’
‘Is that like some sort of weird hamburglar laundry droid?’
‘Goosing moths is like goosing butterflies, but you do it at night.’
‘In the future, you get immediate answers to your hypothetical questions.’
http://www.1up.com/do/blogEntry?bId=9009897
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The opening sequence of Uncharted 2 is memorable for a number of reasons. Many would point to the dramatic nature of the location, the perilous situation in which the protagonist finds himself in or the simple fact that the game is visually stunning. Personally, one of the most impressive aspects is that it throws you in a dramatic and dangerous situation and gives you no instruction as to what you should do or even what you are capable of doing. The tutorial sequence comes afterwards in the form of a flashback, but when you are left dangling from a destroyed train carriage in the midst of a raging blizzard with a seemingly endless abyss below you, you have had no explanation of the game’s mechanics. Yet you soon discover your capabilities as you struggle to ascend to higher ground. Uncharted 2 is a triumph of contextual gaming and should be held up as a source of inspiration for developers hoping to create a cinematic experience.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_quoting_out_of_context
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Other out of context quotations
Besides the creation-evolution controversy, the fallacy of quoting out of context is also used in other areas. In some instances, commentators have used the term quote mining, comparing the practice of others with creationist quote mining.[23]
- Entertainment: with The Times reporting its frequent abuse by promoters with, for example, "I couldn’t help feeling that, for all the energy, razzmatazz and technical wizardry, the audience had been shortchanged" being pared down to "having 'energy, razzmatazz and technical wizardry'".[24]
- Politics: in the 2000 United States Republican primary campaign, George W. Bush's campaign screened advertising including a "warning" from John McCain's "conservative hometown paper" that "It's time the rest of the nation learns about the McCain we know." The paper (The Arizona Republic), however, went on to say, "There is much there to admire. After all, we have supported McCain in his past runs for office."[25]
- Pseudohistory: A book review in The New York Times recounts Lerone Bennett Jr.'s "distortion by omission" in citing a letter from Abraham Lincoln as evidence that he "did not openly oppose the anti-immigrant Know-Nothing Party" because, as Lincoln explained, "they are mostly my old political and personal friends", while omitting to mention that the remainder of the letter describes Lincoln's break with these former Whig Party associates of his, and his anticipation of "painful necessity of my taking an open stand against them."[26]
- Alternative Medicine: Analysis of the evidence submitted by the British Homeopathic Association to the House Of Commons Evidence Check On Homeopathy contains many examples of quote mining, where the conclusions of scientific papers were selectively quoted to make them appear to support the efficacy of homeopathic treatment. For example, one paper's conclusion was reported as "There is some evidence that homeopathic treatments are more effective than placebo" without the immediately following caveat "however, the strength of this evidence is low because of the low methodological quality of the trials. Studies of high methodological quality were more likely to be negative than the lower quality studies."
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A straw man is a component of an argument and is an informal fallacy based on misrepresentation of an opponent's position.[1] To "attack a straw man" is to create the illusion of having refuted a proposition by replacing it with a superficially similar yet unequivalent proposition (the "straw man"), and refuting it, without ever having actually refuted the original position.[1][2]
[edit] Origin
The origins of the term are unclear. One common (folk) etymology given is that it originated with men who stood outside courthouses with a straw in their shoe in order to indicate their willingness to be a false witness, but it is unlikely that individuals would publicly declare their willingness to commit a crime outside a courthouse.[3][4] Another more popular origin is a human figure made of straw, such as practice dummies used in military training.In the UK, the adversary is sometimes called Aunt Sally, with reference to a traditional fairground game.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aunt_Sally
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Aunt Sally is a traditional throwing game. The term is often used metaphorically to mean something that is a target for criticism. In particular, referring to the fairground origins, an Aunt Sally would be "set up" deliberately to be subsequently "knocked down", usually by the same person who set the person up.
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