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.

Ob-
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