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To: philv who wrote (62211)	11/17/2008 6:33:39 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 78409

Dodo Guano. Philosophy Department. It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. Producing bullshit requires no such conviction. A person who lies is thereby responding to the truth, and he is to that extent respectful of it. When an honest man speaks, he says only what he believes to be true; and for the liar, it is correspondingly indispensable that he considers his statements to be false. For the bullshitter, however, all these bets are off: he is neither on the side of the true nor on the side of the false. His eye is not on the facts at all, as the eyes of the honest man and of the liar are, except insofar as they may be pertinent to his interest in getting away with what he says. He does not care whether the things he says describe reality correctly. He just picks them out, or makes them up, to suit his purpose. * BS * baloney * bull * bull shit (pronounced like two separate words, as done by Tourettes Guy * bull butter (alluding to something that would be as absurd as a bull producing milk/butter[citation needed]) * bull con * bull feathers * bullcrap * bullroar (especially when intimidation is involved) * bullpucky or bullpuckey * bullshark * bullshnikes * bullhonkery * dittmar * bovine scat (retaining the initials) * bovine stercus * horsefeathers * horsepucky or horsepuckey * horse hockey (referring to the hockey-like motion of shoveling manure from horse stalls into a low cart[citation needed]) * poppycock (a transliteration of pappe kak, the Dutch phrase for "bird guano")