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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Quirk objection</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../Q.html" title="Q"/><link rel="previous" href="quine.html" title="quine"/><link rel="next" href="quote-chapter-and-verse.html" title="quote chapter and verse"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Quirk objection</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="quine.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Q</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="quote-chapter-and-verse.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Quirk-objection"/><dt xmlns="" id="Quirk-objection"><b>Quirk objection</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">interj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Named for Captain Gym Z. Quirk, the first to raise it.]
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“<span class="quote">Objection! Assumes organ not in evidence!</span>” Used in
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<tt class="systemitem">news.admin.net-abuse.email</tt> to
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point out that a comment assumes the presence of something whose existence
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has not been proven, such as a spammer's brain or gonads. This is not used
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to refer to things that are definitely proven <span class="emphasis"><em>not</em></span> to
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exist, such as a spammer's ethics. It's applicable to enough postings
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there that a poster wishing to raise the objection often need merely say
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“<span class="quote">ObQuirk!</span>”, an instance of the <a href="../O/Ob-.html"><i class="glossterm">Ob-</i></a>
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