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Usually in Conjunction with "the"
In Reference to The David letterman list.
A term for a list of the top answers to a topic. Usually the topic and/or its topic can be comical or serious. Number of answers are typically between 5 and 10 answers
Harvey: Give me the Letterman list then.
John: Earth, Dad, pizza, sex, cold beer, fast cars, sex, Aeryn, love.
Harvey: Well, we're both dead.
John: Screw you.
To threaten someone to come be in your presence through the grapevine and then be gracious to them if they show up because they know you can influence something important in their lives.
He was nervous entering the restaurant to meet her. Because she threatened him and he knew she had the keys. But she Lettermaned him and immediately welcomed him and helped him out.
The letterman's fallacy is a scenario in which you are asked a basic question and extrapolate your answer in order to gain a better understanding of the question and this in turn is then used against you to gaslight you into a malformed position that you do not necessarily stand for.
The name letterman comes from the fact that it sounds fancy to say.
Person 1: "If you were a goat would you fuck a goat?"
Person 2: "Would I have the brain of a goat or a human?"
Person 1: "Ah so your a goat-fucker"
Person 2: "So you're going to gaslight and letterman's fallacy me wowza"
Disclose an illicit affair to the media before it is discovered or leaked in order to gain sympathy and appear noble to the public.
Indiana state representative, Mark Souder, decided to "pull a Letterman" a couple weeks after winning the primary.