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'''Antimony''': Hello. I would like to enter, please.
'''Doorbot''': Robots onl... what's that on your head?
'''Antimony''': [[Paper-Thin Disguise|These are my antennas, because I am clearly a robot.]]
'''Doorbot''': Oh! Well... it's true that some robots have antennas... hmm...
'''Antimony''': [[Circular Reasoning|Also, robots never lie.]]
'''Doorbot''': Hey, you're right! Come on in, friends!
'''Antimony''': We are looking for a particular robot. A... '''fellow''' robot. Because we are also robots.
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'''Mrs. Teasdale''': But I saw you with my own eyes!
'''Chicolini''': Well, who you gonna believe, me or your own eyes? |'''[[Duck Soup]]'''}}
{{quote|I can never tell when a thimblerigger does this stupid trick of linking to a source that contradicts the statement for which the link is offered in support, if the thimblerigger actually is unable to read English because his eyes are bewitched, but he somehow actually [[Believing Their Own Lies|believes his own lying spew]]? or if he knows it is lying spew, but is confident that the reader will not click through the link and read? Or perhaps, (and this is the most desolate and sad option of the three), the thimblerigger knows the reader will click, will see and understand that the lying spew is lying spew, but both reader and thimblerigger will admire and love the lying spew they both know to be a lie precisely because it is lying spew: and take it as a sign of virtue that they both together defy truth, reality, reason and judgment, in some sort of a mental suicide pact.
| ''[http://www.scifiwright.com/2016/04/we-also-call-them-morlocks/ We Also Call Them Morlocks]'' in '''[[John C. Wright]]'''<nowiki></nowiki>'s Journal }}
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