Academic Debater Gifts

'I see you're highly intelligent. That's fine for academia, but here in the real world we're looking for people with common sense.'

'Is there a God? God knows...'

"No, accepting students who are unqualified is not what we mean by diversity."

"Let's just drop it, Andrew, and leave it to future historians to decide which of us was right."

"Doctor, your speech was certainly unabridged."

Dialogue

"O.K., O.K., people - we're not workshopping these, they're already set in stone."

"The best part is that we got hell to pay for it."

"Strawman argument terrorises conversation... News at eleven."

Changing Minds

"Now that's a win."

"Mainstream? Who's to say what's mainstream?"

Netanyahu versus Gantz

"He'll never win this negotiation. He's saddled with numbers...but we have anecdotes."

'You present a very convincing argument.'

"Ever notice how grateful people are when you present them with facts contrary to their beliefs?"

The Church of DanaeDanaeism: 'And let such sacrilege go uncontested? Never! I demand equal time for alternate explanations of things.'

"On the contrary, Bosworth, it's YOU who has lost all perspective."

'I'm now going to open the floor to questions.'

"If I vote my conscience, it's Sanders. If I vote my pocketbook, it's Trump. If I vote my emotions, it's Hillary. If I vote my anger, it's Cruz..."

Crooked Hillary... Pig... Sad!... Not a Ten!...

Flat-earthers and round-earthers reach a compromise.

Science Snobs

Verbal Orders

Like Minded

Stegosaurus (say the evolutionists). Nonsense (say the creationists).

And now, for a rebuttal.

''Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense' Thomas Huxley, 1825-1895.'

The last word.

Global warming debate.

"If they shorten political campaigns, what will we do for entertainment?"

Approved Debate Questions

'My opponent hates cats.'