Hi Gang--As you work on finishing up Toulmin and developing your brief for the negative side of your proposition, think about this:
No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half! (http://www.strangefacts.com/facts1.html)
Find your own strange or unusual fact and post it here with a citation and then, in 5 or 6 lines, argue against the fact using debate skills such as clash, counterplan, dis-advantages and/or definition attacks--these are all the tactics which the negative team should employ during our next round of debates,and you should all use them in developing your briefs! Anticipate stock issues or just clash with your own stock issues you came up with in the case! I'll go first, let me hear some ZANY facts--Have a great Halloween everyone!!!!!! Sandra
By dry, do they mean totally moisture free or can it be damp? When something gets really small, what constitutes "half?" Exactly what is meant by "folding"--does creasing count? Besides, wouldn't one's time be better spent studying or shopping or even sleeping instead of folding all the time? Really people--what is a "piece?" anyways?????? A shred, a schard, a strip a chunk??????? This is discriminatory towards squares, implying that they can't fold as well as other shapes and I for one resent this unusual fact!!!!!!!!!!!
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A cat's urine glows under a black light. http://www.armenianteens.com/funny_crazy_facts.php
First off, why would you even need to know that a cat's urine glows under black light? What's the use of that? Why'd you even bother finding that out? Is there a use of cat's urine or something? And what is a "cat" really? Does it involved just domestic cats? What about other big cats like lions or tigers or cougars? What defines "glow?" Is it just a glimmer? A shimmer? A sparkle? What color does it glow? Really now, if you can't even tell me that then this fact is useless!
In California, it's against the law to use your dirty underwear as a dust rag.
http://www.some-guy.com/facts.shtml
That's is ludicrus to suggest that underwear is anything less than an ideal dusting utensil! One is always equipped with dirty underwear while we may never find oursleves equipped with a handy dust rag! Finally, how can you prove it was already dirty????
Goodbye for now--Your Neighborhood Friend, Snugglebums
Every day more money is printed for
Monopoly than the US Treasury.
http://www.funfunnyfacts.com/fun-facts/funny-did-you-know-facts.html
How can this be true EVERY day. Some days I’m sure more US currency than monopoly money. There has to be days where the factories are closed, or where there a re printing problems. This fact has no days on it so while the, US government has been printing currency for over 200 years, while Monopoly money has only been printed since 1935. So there is a time where real money has been printed and monopoly money hasn’t proving this fact wrong.
Michael Machado
There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos!
First off this is absolutlaty a LIE! You mean to tell me the cashiers do not have a clock to time the recieve and transfer money. To say that there are no clocks at all in all casinos in vegas is unwise and notinaccurate.
Leslie D. Janga
08FALL
Did You Know, It is impossible to lick your elbow.
http://www.funfunnyfacts.com/fun-facts/funny-did-you-know-facts.html
How can this be true for every single person? there are people who were born with extremely long tounges. to say that it is impossible to lick your elbow, its ridiculous because we cant assume that everyone has the same size tongue. I have a friend who has a extremely long tongue and can lick her elbow.
Hannah Hidden
In a fight between a polar bear and a lion, the polar bear would win.
http://www.berro.com/entertainment/animals_interesting_facts.htm
This bias fact must have been written by a man named Klondike who lives in Antartica. Why you asked? well, we don't even know where the fight between these two animals will be held. What if our polar bear friend wondered himself into the jungle. As I can best recall "Lions Are King Of The Jungle". And if Simba the lion has to fight a big mean polar bear on the bear's home turf, then my counterplan is to give our visiting lion a warm coat because the freezing cold temperatures is our disadvantage.
-Robert Cochran
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