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LewisBlack Moore
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07-19-2006 11:10
AP - Staff Writer
In a startling new approach to intellectual verity and scientific validity the collective population of scientific, philosophic and other experts of every stripe concluded today that their collective opinions effectively negated themselves, to an extent that no further postulating of any significant degree was possible. They allowed however that this did not effectively rule out any armchair-experts, non-experts, pseudo-experts, or high-minded people with strident opinions from publicizing what could possibly be mis-represented or mis-construed as actual expert opinions. They warned that the general public should not take these other opinions as expressions of expertise, or as rooted in anything other than speculation. Unfortunately shortly after the statement with the warning was released, noted social scientist J. Harding Wherforshire observed that the warning could in fact be described as an expert opinion, and therefore in light of the evidence could also be effectively refuted.
Following the release of the statement, the entire population of experts was reported to have breathed a collective sigh of relief and popped down to a local pub to argue in blissful and irresponsible ignorance of the facts.
[Edit: sorry - remedial spelling corrections not caught by antiquated spell-checker]
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Alex Fitzsimmons
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07-19-2006 11:14
Well thank goodness.
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Griffin Connell
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07-19-2006 11:20
I will sleep better at night.
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Billybob Goodliffe
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07-19-2006 11:21
*wipes brow* what a relieve
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Alazarin Mondrian
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07-19-2006 11:31
Later on at the pub after several hours of jovial banter and hard drinking the expert's light-hearted espirit de corps was darkened by one pedantic expert who insisted on reminding the assembled company of experts that in their state of inebriation their flights of fantasy had taken them so far away from the realm of facts that they had left reality gasping in the distence. For his painstaking accurate observation, his cohorts marched him to the lavatory and rewarded him with a swirly.
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Maerl Olmstead
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07-19-2006 11:55
pedantic...i love the word pedantic
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Griffin Connell
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07-19-2006 11:56
From: Maerl Olmstead pedantic...i love the word pedantic it's so sublime, it's almost art. has a bit of poetry to it... |