In contrast to DamnByFaintPraise, if you want to hide a thing's serious deficiencies, make gentle fun of its trivial deficiencies. This keeps most of your audience from looking any deeper, and from taking seriously the concerns of more knowledgeable critics.

''In other words - and this is the rock solid principle on which the whole of the Corporation's Galaxy-wide success is founded - their fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by their superficial design flaws. '' -- DouglasAdams on the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.


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