[Chuck Dye]

Cohen's Law
What really matters is the name you succeed in imposing on the facts - not the facts themselves.

(See: assault weapon
cop killer bullet
Saturday night special
etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.)



Found at http://www.inftech.ru/comedy/murphy/mur00485.htm among other fun stuff.

[Khornet]

for a name for this tactic for years.

President Lincoln was once involved in an argument with a man who practiced this, insisting that a thing be called by another name thereby changing its nature. Finally in exasperation Mr. Lincoln said:

"Look here. If you call a dog's tail a leg, how many legs would it have?"

"Why, five, of course."

"Wrong. Four. You can call it a leg, but it's still a tail."