mock-up

[Laurence Horn]

On Feb 5, 2013, at 4:14 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

> Once they reanimate him (preferably as a member of a certain political
> party that shall go nameless), I will graciously retract my objection.
>
> JL

Wasn't there a satire in the 70s of Nixon as a (more-or-less) reanimated Richard III?

LH
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> On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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>> At 2/5/2013 12:11 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>>> Mock-ups, in my experience, are (usually smaller and non-functioning, or
>>> not fully functional) complete models of machines like airplanes that
>> don't
>>> exist *yet.* An airplane mock-up, for example, is (or used to be) useful
>>> for wind-tunnel tests.
>>>
>>> The novelty with Tricky Dick is that he was a person, not a thing; he
>> *did*
>>> exist once; and the model is only of his head, not the whole person.
>>>
>>> So that's strike three in the  inappropriateness game.
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>> Well, some are trying to reconstruct him, and maybe after the head
>> they will see to the heart ... and body and limbs.  If Dr.
>> Frankenstein had made a model of his monster before the animated one,
>> would that have not been a mock-up because the monster -- at least in
>> parts -- had existed once?
>>
>> :-)
>> Joel
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