Phrases of maximum dickery, or PoMD for short, hashtag #pomd:1
More?
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I heard this term somewhere but I can’t remember where. Any pointers would be helpful.↩︎
This one can take two forms, the first is the non-dickery form and one of maximum dickery: 1) a rhetorical question that sets up a canned answer and 2) the start of an answer to a earnest question.↩︎
The Joy of Clojure uses this phrase twice. :-(↩︎
Thanks to Steve Losh for the open source related PoMDs.↩︎