# Clarification, Tom?

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**Created:** [August 11, 2012, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clarification-tom/631184 "2012-08-11T11:18:38Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 11, 2012, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clarification-tom/631184/8 "2012-08-11T15:47:09Z")

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> [@Farmer\_Jane](#):
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> _My post is my cite_ can’t fly here.

[Where do you think it _comes_ from?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php)

I have to agree with **tomndebb** here, although I understand the frustration. If someone makes a claim and can’t or won’t produce a cite, asking over and over and over doesn’t accomplish anything other than derailing the thread. Ask, say, two times and let the failure to produce a cite speak for itself or say “I see you still can’t come up with that cite” and let it go.

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