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Recumbentman Started conversation Sep 13, 2011
Wonderful stuff, Gnomon!
Lavishing serious attention on an incomplete message seems to be a deeply-embedded human impulse.
In h2g2 we have Nighthoover.
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Gnomon - time to move on Posted Sep 13, 2011
You may have spotted the part "too bizarre to have been made up, so they must be true". There's a lot of that in human thinking.
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James Casey Posted Oct 27, 2011
I really like this, and from the little I know about the subject recognise the depth and veracity of the research. This would be a good asset to the edited Guide.
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Recumbentman Posted Oct 30, 2011
The syndrome of "too bizarre to have been made up, so they must be true" won't leave me alone. It informs a lot of advertising, where they slip in an illogicality or a dangling bit of grammar, that festers in your brain.
Remember "tension here leads to pressure here causing pain here. Relieving the pain eases the pressure, removing the tension". What sort of process is that?
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