Thanks to Swans On Tea for this morning's moment of amusement:
On Thursday I accumulated the datum that the phrase
http://blogs.scienceforums.net/swansont/archives/4388I might work better wearing lederhosen, but we’re just not going to find that outinstantly ends the meeting.
Don't you just love/hate (depending on side of fence) people who derail meetings with "amusing" absurd analogies, reductio ad absurdum arguments, etc., no matter how fallacious? In my experience the likelihood that someone will bring one of these up depends on the length of the meeting (long => more likely) or, of course, the ridiculousness of the subject from that person's p.o.v. ...
It's a useful tactic in one's arsenal (as a meeting attendee) and motivation for having short, focused meetings (chairs please take note! — academia is notoriously plagued by ouroboros-like sequences of long, pointless meetings that seem to exist for their own sake & no other purpose.)
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