Barking Debater Gifts

'Don't tell me you want universal health care!'

Bitchbark Canoe

'My bark may be worse than my bite, but I've got a whine that will drive you up a wall!'

"There's really not much to obedience school. Just listen up and do what they say."

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

Dialogue

'That's not speaking, that's barking Try again'

"I'm not growling, it's my stomach rumbling!"

"Ever feel like even when you're barking at something you're still barking at nothing?"

"Now that's a win."

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

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

"My owner is teaching me to think before barking, which gave Federal Express plenty of time to clobber me."

'Arf! Arf!'

'Can you give him something to relax his jaws?'

Dog phrenology

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

'Sure, he acts like he's into you now, but, trust me...he's only interested in one thing.'

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

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

Oz Debating Society. You can't refute everything I say just by call it a "straw man" argument.

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

"I yip, therefore I am."

Dog in therapy.

Debating Society. I can accept that money is speech as long as we can agree that some spending is like yelling fire in a theater.

A bunch of global warming skeptics want to join eco club. It's a school organization. You have to let them in. But they just want to harass us with selective facts! Today: Eco club. So? Debate is good. You have :An Inconvenient Truth" to counter their arguments. Oh. Great. Now we'll have to read it.

Like Minded

'Wow, it's busy...I hope we can find a barking spot!'

And now, for a rebuttal.

Global warming debate.

Nearly a third of the earth's life-forms have gone extinct. Cut! Stop with all the facts. This is debate club! But we're using a cable tv talk show format! What should I say? Unsupported opinions

Today on the Ask Sadie Show, we'll be addressing one single topic: Wondering. In my day, when a body said I wonder why dust bunnies are called dust bunnies, it led to all sorts of delightful speculation. We could while away hours debating whether it was a marketing ploy by big broom ... or whether it dated back to Napoleon, who had a fetish for dirty rabbits. And if we were lucky, opinions could get so heated that fisticuffs would ensue. Wondering is just one of many lovely human experiences utt

The last word.

Approved Debate Questions

I know they told me not to bark