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#141945 04/12/05 09:57 AM
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Quite

It's called 'denying the antecedent.' It's a logical fallacy. That's part of the reason the joke's so funny.


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I use Firefox, although I'm unhappy about it not being OSX native. it doesn't support the Services menu, which is a drag. I do like it other than that, especially some of the add-ons, like the RSS reader (Sage) and a little weather thing in the bookmark bar. it also seems a touch faster than Safari.
I actually like Camino better, but it has some funny screen-drawing issues, so I haven't used it in a while.



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You kniw, except foir the Descarte part of this, Not a bit of this thread has made any sense to me than Horace in the original does.

Who'da thunk I'd prefer Descarte before the Horace?



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Oh, didn't see that. lol.


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do you use the Firefox extension that lets you select "open this page in I.E." from the right-click menu?


Nope. Wasn't aware of it. Sounds handy.

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I for one would like to see the whole joke. There must be a punch line.


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AnnaS,

Don't know about the shaggy dog story, just the "I think" bit.


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Descarte before the Horace

Please! I just ate.


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>the whole joke

http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=wordplay&Number=137387

btw, thanks to those who've responded in regard to firefox. I'm told that, in essence, it's really just the next generation of (Mozilla's) Netscape. it appears now to be a lot less hacked than IE -- but just give the hackers some reason to hack (i.e., more visibility).

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Thanks, I think I'll now switch back to Opera.


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