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    my favorite is genuine faux.

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

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    Chas

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    Quote Originally Posted by Photoguy67 View Post
    my favorite is genuine faux.
    a close cousin to the less pretentious "genuine imitation..." and the just plain weird, "real simulated..."

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    I like "original copy".

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    you forgot

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

    Weasel

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

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chas View Post
    'New and Improved' - which means they have been selling us 'Old and Rubbish' for years and years.

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    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"

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chas View Post
    'New and Improved' - which means they have been selling us 'Old and Rubbish' for years and years.

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    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...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Weasel Mender View Post
    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.

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