sabills Posted March 13, 2017 Report Share Posted March 13, 2017 Question for old timers: what was this board like when the team was good? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doohickie Posted March 13, 2017 Report Share Posted March 13, 2017 (edited) The logical equivalent? Please explain. "have you stopped beating your wife" Unfairly presumes you were beating your wife to begin with. "When will Eichel first be booed in his return to Buffalo?" Your statement unfairly presumes Eichel will leave the Sabres. Question for old timers: what was this board like when the team was good? They didn't have internet in the 1970s. Edited March 13, 2017 by Doohickie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudacek Posted March 13, 2017 Report Share Posted March 13, 2017 (edited) Question for old timers: what was this board like when the team was good? When the Sabres were good? PA would thunder his pronouncements from the mountaintop and SDS would scurry across the greater Buffalo area to circulate the stone tablets. Edited March 13, 2017 by dudacek Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doohickie Posted March 13, 2017 Report Share Posted March 13, 2017 When the Sabres were good? PA would thunder his pronouncements from the mountaintop and SDS would scurry across the greater Buffalo area to circulate the stone tablets. :flirt: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sabills Posted March 13, 2017 Report Share Posted March 13, 2017 They didn't have internet in the 1970s. So you guys just sent each other messages saying Perreault sucked by horseback or something? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eleven Posted March 13, 2017 Report Share Posted March 13, 2017 Question for old timers: what was this board like when the team was good? There were still debates. A big one was whether Noronen, Biron, or Miller should start. So you guys just sent each other messages saying Perreault sucked by horseback or something? HEY. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doohickie Posted March 13, 2017 Report Share Posted March 13, 2017 Question for old timers: what was this board like when the team was good? Hang in there. Things will come around. I started posting here because of the great banter that was entertaining and informative. Much of it is still informative; the entertainment part will get better was the team improves. :thumbsup: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PASabreFan Posted March 13, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 13, 2017 "have you stopped beating your wife" Unfairly presumes you were beating your wife to begin with. "When will Eichel first be booed in his return to Buffalo?" Your statement unfairly presumes Eichel will leave the Sabres. Double wow. I'll let it go. There was a better way to make your point. I can't be the only one who was thrown by the comment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doohickie Posted March 13, 2017 Report Share Posted March 13, 2017 Have you not heard that expression before? It's a well-known rhetorical device and I thought would be obviously so. If you in any way took it personally, I apologize. I would never insinuate you actually beat your significant other. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabel79 Posted March 13, 2017 Report Share Posted March 13, 2017 Double wow. I'll let it go. There was a better way to make your point. I can't be the only one who was thrown by the comment. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chutzpah Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
That Aud Smell Posted March 13, 2017 Report Share Posted March 13, 2017 Question for old timers: what was this board like when the team was good? i know some will tire of being reminded, but, back in '07, PA wrote an imagined story about lindy as an old man that just about made (makes) me cry. Double wow. I'll let it go. There was a better way to make your point. I can't be the only one who was thrown by the comment. the old saw of "so when did you stop beating your wife?" is a widely known, even proverbial way of alluding to the idea that a question has been unfairly framed as an accusation of sorts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudacek Posted March 13, 2017 Report Share Posted March 13, 2017 :flirt: Dammit. Don't play chicken with a guy who wears one on his head. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doohickie Posted March 13, 2017 Report Share Posted March 13, 2017 Dammit. Don't play chicken with a guy who wears one on his head. No, I didn't mean it that way at all. I was acknowledging the cleverness of your response. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwampD Posted March 13, 2017 Report Share Posted March 13, 2017 Double wow. I'll let it go. There was a better way to make your point. I can't be the only one who was thrown by the comment. I have known that question to be the defacto example of what a loaded question is for as long as I have known that the world had things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eleven Posted March 13, 2017 Report Share Posted March 13, 2017 Have you not heard that expression before? It's a well-known rhetorical device and I thought would be obviously so. If you in any way took it personally, I apologize. I would never insinuate you actually beat your significant other. i know some will tire of being reminded, but, back in '07, PA wrote an imagined story about lindy as an old man that just about made (makes) me cry. the old saw of "so when did you stop beating your wife?" is a widely known, even proverbial way of alluding to the idea that a question has been unfairly framed as an accusation of sorts. I have known that question to be the defacto example of what a loaded question is for as long as I have known that the world had things. It's very, VERY well known, PA's crocodile tears notwithstanding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabres Fan in NS Posted March 13, 2017 Report Share Posted March 13, 2017 You know the Sabres are bad when a thread like this is the most active and we don't even remember that the question posed makes no sense at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eleven Posted March 13, 2017 Report Share Posted March 13, 2017 You know the Sabres are bad when a thread like this is the most active and we don't even remember that the question posed makes no sense at all. Freeman had it right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doohickie Posted March 13, 2017 Report Share Posted March 13, 2017 You know the Sabres are bad when a thread like this is the most active and we don't even remember that the question posed makes no sense at all. PA threw some chum into the water and we (okay, I) attacked it. Good on him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabres Fan in NS Posted March 13, 2017 Report Share Posted March 13, 2017 Freeman had it right. I disagree, but what do I know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IKnowPhysics Posted March 13, 2017 Report Share Posted March 13, 2017 PA threw some chum into the water and we (okay, I) attacked it. Good on him. Well don't be such a chum guzzler. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doohickie Posted March 13, 2017 Report Share Posted March 13, 2017 :angel: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwampD Posted March 13, 2017 Report Share Posted March 13, 2017 It's very, VERY well known, PA's crocodile tears notwithstanding. And as long as we're down the OT rabbit hole, was I being redundent when I used "de facto example?" Should I have just said? I have known that question to be the de facto loaded question for as long as I have known that the world had things. They both seem kinda correct,... and a little wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
North Buffalo Posted March 13, 2017 Report Share Posted March 13, 2017 So you guys just sent each other messages saying Perreault sucked by horseback or something?1 if by land 2 if by ice... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudacek Posted March 13, 2017 Report Share Posted March 13, 2017 No, I didn't mean it that way at all. I was acknowledging the cleverness of your response. And I your superior quickness. :thumbsup: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brawndo Posted March 13, 2017 Report Share Posted March 13, 2017 No, because it will be for his jersey retirement and his number will hand next to the two Stanley Cup Championship Banners Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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