Detox Debater Gifts

'How is the detox going?'

Be Healthy

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

Dialogue

"What do you mean 'sitting is the new smoking'? I thought fat was the new smoking?"

"Now that's a win."

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

Changing Minds

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

"Toadstool you say? No, this is snailstool now!"

"That's it - your diet starts tomorrow"

"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.

"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.'

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

"How do I know God is not real? For the same reason I know people on TV can't see me."

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

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

'School of nutrition - as of today: Butter, good...'

And now, for a rebuttal.

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

Global warming debate.

Approved Debate Questions

"Yes, I know that chocolate comes from the cocoa Bean...but that does NOT count as a vegetable!"

'My opponent hates cats.'

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

'You are talking about health? Ha! My cig does not have calories, fat, cholesterol, carbohydrates and sugar!'

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

"Woo-hoo!"

If You Can't Beat Them

The last word.

''Relativity,' you say? — Well, it can't be any worse than your 'speed bump' theory.'