mock-up

[Joel S. Berson]

At 2/5/2013 04:14 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>Once they reanimate him (preferably as a member of a certain political
>party that shall go nameless),

You mean the Yorks, of the White Rose party?

Joel

>I will graciously retract my objection.
>
>JL
>
>On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> > Poster:       "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET>
> > Subject:      Re: mock-up
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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.
> >
> > 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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