mock-up

[Jonathan Lighter]

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.

JL

On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> At 2/5/2013 07:35 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> >"A physical representation or reconstruction (of a human head)."
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> >That's what CNN's Christine Romans calls the plastic bust of Richard III
> >based upon his newly unearthed skull.
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> I see the Richard III Society is trying to reconstruct him too.  He's
> younger-looking, less malevolent, and more smiley than the
> run-of-the-mill portraits.
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> http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/now-we-can-see-his-face-the-next-step-of-the-richard-iii-discovery-story-8480958.html
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> But the mock-up looks to me like it was influenced by Laurence Olivier.
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> Joel
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