Two False Words

[Photoguy67]

my favorite is genuine faux.

[Chas]

When I was growing up I saw 'genuine plastic' many times and I often wondered about the rotten swines who were making imitation plastic.

Regards

Chas

[KFCarter]

my favorite is genuine faux.

a close cousin to the less pretentious "genuine imitation..." and the just plain weird, "real simulated..."

[kilty]

I like "original copy".

[Weasel Mender]

You forgot wonderful phrases like "batteries not included" and "some assembly required" two of my yuletime favorites

Weasel

[Chas]

'New and Improved' - which means they have been selling us 'Old and Rubbish' for years and years.

Regards

Chas

[KFCarter]

'New and Improved' - which means they have been selling us 'Old and Rubbish' for years and years.

Regards

Chas

Which brings to mind a whole new class of words... two words that shouldn't appear in the same sentence together, but do...

Like:

"Congealed" and "Salad"

[lethearen]

'New and Improved' - which means they have been selling us 'Old and Rubbish' for years and years.

Regards

Chas

How can something be both new and improved? If it were new, then there wouldn't have been something upon which to improve... and if it's been around long enough to be improved, then obviously it isn't new...

[sathor]

You forgot wonderful phrases like "batteries not included" and "some assembly required" two of my yuletime favorites

Weasel

Last weekend I got a solar powered desk lap from Ikea. (And I think I was spotted by Rex's supervisor, or something like that, from a PM this morning.)

Anyways, the lamp is a small LED desklamp with a solar panel, and on the base it says that it has 3 rechargeable AA batteries inside. I could replace them if I wanted to, and it was preassembled.