bobbie sellers wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 14:49:11 +0000,Phil Stovell, wrote
>
>> On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 14:31:56 +0000, Vilco wrote:
>>
>>> Phil Stovell wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Alcohol kills 22,000 people every year, said the charity.
>>>> Cannabis would obviously kill many times that number, if it was legal.
>>> Bullshit: check how many people dies for cannabis in Holland, where
>>> cannabis is legal.
>> D'oh.
>
> Phil was being sarcastic or ironic, I can't easily distinguish
> between
> the two modes of typing myself but he was being humorous.
>

I would say it was a bitterly ironic straw man argument, but that's me...