setting your wig on fire


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Please, your honour, calm down. You're setting your wig on fire.

 

- Carl Barks dialogue for a Donald Duck comic. Spoken by a court attendant who is applying a fire extinguisher to said wig... the artwork is also superb. The next panel is captioned So poor Donald gets the works! Spoiler: But it does turn out OK for him in the end. 

 

I do something similar when discussing some (perhaps all) of my hobbyhorses.

 

Reader's digest once said The difference between a prejudice and a conviction is, you can explain a conviction without getting mad. It is a caution to us all. 

 

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