destroyed forever

[Doug Harris]

That same commercial also refers, suspiciously, to a "first edition price" or words to that effect.
If the mold is to be 'destroyed forever', it's unlikely there ever will be a _second_ edition!
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I'm curious how backing and filling in the nautical sense relates to the back-filling of holes.
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And enough, already, with that crazy engineering talk. (I quote:

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dh




----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "James A. Landau  <JJJRLandau at NETSCAPE.COM>" <JJJRLandau at NETSCAPE.COM>
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Received: 11/30/2008 8:24:56 AM
Subject: destroyed forever


>In an TV commercial for an instant collectible (a ceramic plate for the Obama
>inauguration), the announcer said "after 62 days the die will be destroyed forever".

>Typical Mad Man overkill, I suppose.

>OT:  about "coach potatoes", as my father used to say, "it's like coaching a football
>team---if you can find a coach big enough".

>OT:  "backing and filling" is a nautical term from sailing-ship days.  I'm not sure, but I
>believe the reference is to slowing or stopping a square-rigger.  "Backing" a sail
>meant to turn the sail so that it would try to move the ship sternwards instead of
>forward---yes, a square-rigger can be sailed backwards!---and presumably "filling" a
>sail meant to let it "fill" with wind.

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