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Reverse-weasel is my new favourite concept.


Quite related, I think, is preterition: the act of mentioning something by saying you won't mention it. I seem to encounter it from computer/math people a lot, it's nice to have a name for the action.


And within 24 hours somebody, somewhere on the Internet will upload some sort of porn based on it, of course, and it will be to 4chan.




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