Much like the whippoorwill bird with its incessant call, the quippoorwill is a person who cannot stop quipping; one who endlessly quips, on Facebook and in person.
Neal: All this talk about the economy has got me depressed. I'm gonna go spend my last ten bucks on a six-pack of non-alcoholic beer and get 0.5% drunk.
Bob: No, don't do it!
Neal: I could probably pick it up at Whole Foods. Do you think they'll let me in without my North Face windbreaker and overbrewed coffee?
Bob: Dude, you're like a quippoorwill, or something...
Neal: I got more quips than Picasso got paint.
Bob: No, don't do it!
Neal: I could probably pick it up at Whole Foods. Do you think they'll let me in without my North Face windbreaker and overbrewed coffee?
Bob: Dude, you're like a quippoorwill, or something...
Neal: I got more quips than Picasso got paint.
by Sun Wolf August 7, 2011
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by SamuelLJacksonDoppleganger January 24, 2011
Get the Joe Quist Handshake mug.Latin, "where is the benefit?" A type of logical fallacy in which one claims one didn't do something bad because it was not in one's interests to do so. An example would be, "Why would I steal from the cash register? It's going to hurt the business if I do, and then I might lose my job."
The argument is usually used on behalf of someone else: for example, Ludo Martens (1995) argues that Stalin could not possibly have massacred millions of Russians because he needed them to fight WW2; Fogel & Engermann claimed* that American slavery was not very bad because it was in the best interests of slaveowners to have content slaves.
The argument is a fallacy because it assumes that all relevant motives of the actor are well-established, and lead away from the act. It does not account for motives like personal hatred, shame, fear, spite, ideology, and so on.
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* In *Time on the Cross* (1971); the book was conclusively debunked by David & Stampp, *Reckoning with Slavery* (1976).
The argument is usually used on behalf of someone else: for example, Ludo Martens (1995) argues that Stalin could not possibly have massacred millions of Russians because he needed them to fight WW2; Fogel & Engermann claimed* that American slavery was not very bad because it was in the best interests of slaveowners to have content slaves.
The argument is a fallacy because it assumes that all relevant motives of the actor are well-established, and lead away from the act. It does not account for motives like personal hatred, shame, fear, spite, ideology, and so on.
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* In *Time on the Cross* (1971); the book was conclusively debunked by David & Stampp, *Reckoning with Slavery* (1976).
One frequently encounters *quis est beneficium?* arguments among Holocaust deniers of all stripes. Among such worthies it is claimed that Hitler/Stalin/Enver Pasha could not possibly have wanted to massacre all those millions because it was a nuisance to try.
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I've been dating this chick for like 6 months but I don't see us going anywhere; she's not a Quishima
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GUY1: I can't believe you won on ANOTHER lottery ticket. How did you get so lucky?
GUY2: One word dude, quippit
GUY2: One word dude, quippit
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