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think tanks are a euphemism for propaganda machine I call them "thought tanks" exactly because all the thinking has been done well before any particular questi

• kazinator 9y ago
  The past tense form (and also past participle) of to think is glaringly ambiguous against the noun thought, suggesting that thought might be going on. I humbly suggest the alternative thunk tank. The bad grammar eliminates suspicions of thought and as a bonus, it rhymes with drunk tank. "I thinked and thinked real hard and real long till I couldn' think a nuthin' I ain't already thunk. So I then I passed on the remainin' reckonin' on to the fine folks in the thunk tank."
• planteen 9y ago
  I like that. So true. It usually seems the conclusion is also decided before much thinking goes on as well.
• kazinator 9y ago
  Seriously though, the agenda behind a think tank may be a thought-out given. But there can be plenty of conniving left for the think tank related to carrying it out. Obviously, this guy wasn't fit for a think tank, if he couldn't rub two brain cells together to learn the adage "don't bite the hand that feeds you". Or maybe he is meta-clever; no publicity is bad publicity. Get fired from a Google funded think tank for anti-Google thoughts and come out smelling like some kind of hero.