Bringing a longbow to a bow-and-arrow fight

Advantages to bring to an online dispute:

1. Awareness that your opponent may say something you agree with.

There is no better way to confuse your esteemed interlocutor than by agreeing with them. They will likely gainsay anything you say, so will end up arguing with themselves.


2. Willingness to let the other person have the last word.

Make a snappy "exit statement" to which any response will look like spluttering. (Don't read said spluttering, as you may be tempted to return, in the manner of someone who has just delivered a glorious smackdown and stormed out and then has to sneak back in because they forgot their hat.)

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Someone on TWOP claimed that RTD dismissed criticisms of the Cyberwoman costume by saying he couldn't be expected to understand women. In search of the original quote or whatever which was distorted into this obvious bollocks, I came across a merciless review of the episode, which provided what I think is the quote in question ("There are a lot of men on the team who were absolutely determined to make that Cyberwoman costume as sexy as possible. I've got no idea what they mean.") but also the observation that Lisa performed a brain transplant on herself. Oh dear. I'd never thought about that before.

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"The playright Terrence McNally... and I were once on our way to a New Year's Eve party when the anxiety of multiple deadlines overcame us. By midnight we were typing in separate rooms, he in black tie and I in pearls and blue velvet."
- Wendy Wasserstein in the Washington Post, 17 December 1995