Your Argument is Invalid
added Apr 28, 2009 at 11:21AM UTC
part of a series on Internet Slang
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The phrase “your argument is invalid” is often employed in debates of logic, and altough it predates the internet, many an internet know-it-all has used the phrase in chat, email, and on message boards.
Here is a rather passionate exchange between a Windows user and a Linux user in 2001:
> Nice ad hominem attack, David. Attack the messenger. Good boy.That’s not what I understood ‘ad hominem’ to mean. My understanding was that
ad hominem involved an attack on the person making the argument, followed by
an obviously false assertion that such attack renders the person’s arguments
invalid, even though the details of the attack made are completely unrelated
to the matter being discussed.Thus observing that you sent your mail using a Windows MUA, then declaring
that your argument is invalid because you’re a Windows user and therefore
obviously mentally deficient, would be an ad hominem attack.
Nicolas Cage’s Hair is a Bird
The now famous picture of Nicolas Cage’s hair photoshopped into a bird is rumored to have originated on 4Chan, although no archived thread exists to confirm this. This image macro places the clear insistance of logic on top of an image with a rather high WTF quotient.
On May 19th, My Hair is a Bird made the front page of Digg.com
Yourargumentisinvalid.com was registered to Jeffrey Spies on May 22nd, 2008
The meme draws certain parallels to Pancake Bunny.
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