>Sandy M. says:
> I made no allusion to literature. Do you think, perhaps, that Frank L.
> Baum invented the scarecrow?
>
> A scarecrow is a straw man. My figure of speech is obvious and shouldn't
> require any pondering.
>
I say:
Only in Sandy's world. In the real world, though both may have 'straw' in common, they are used in completely different contexts -- one to scare crows away in a field, the other to represent a false argument (or an argument made of chaff).
Sandy did not create this odd coincidence for this thread -- he has apparently used it at least as early as 2010, as evidenced from another thread.
So, we can deduce from Sandy's statements that he can see no difference between a scarecrow and a strawman argument.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.assassination.jfk/5G8z8oLx4Qs%5B1-25%5D
> I made no allusion to literature. Do you think, perhaps, that Frank L.
> Baum invented the scarecrow?
>
> A scarecrow is a straw man. My figure of speech is obvious and shouldn't
> require any pondering.
>
I say:
Only in Sandy's world. In the real world, though both may have 'straw' in common, they are used in completely different contexts -- one to scare crows away in a field, the other to represent a false argument (or an argument made of chaff).
Sandy did not create this odd coincidence for this thread -- he has apparently used it at least as early as 2010, as evidenced from another thread.
So, we can deduce from Sandy's statements that he can see no difference between a scarecrow and a strawman argument.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.assassination.jfk/5G8z8oLx4Qs%5B1-25%5D
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