quirk objection

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quirk objection - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  Quirk objection
   interj.
  
     [Named for Captain Gym Z. Quirk, the first to raise it.] "Objection!
     Assumes organ not in evidence!" Used in news.admin.net-abuse.email to
     point out that a comment assumes the presence of something whose
     existence has not been proven, such as a spammer's brain or gonads.
     This is not used to refer to things that are definitely proven not to
     exist, such as a spammer's ethics. It's applicable to enough postings
     there that a poster wishing to raise the objection often need merely
     say "ObQuirk!", an instance of the Ob- convention.