mock-up

[Jonathan Lighter]

No, because in that case they'd have found the body forty-odd years ago.

JL

On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 7:12 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> On Feb 5, 2013, at 4:14 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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> > Once they reanimate him (preferably as a member of a certain political
> > party that shall go nameless), I will graciously retract my objection.
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> > JL
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> Wasn't there a satire in the 70s of Nixon as a (more-or-less) reanimated
> Richard III?
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> 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.
> >>
> >> 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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