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ITCXXIII: Bad taste, worse taste

Not too long ago, I found a pile of digital camera pictures from some time back. Today, I’d like to juxtapose two that I took at the National Aquarium in Baltimore on or around the beginning of November, 2006.

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This is a little funny, because here’s an adventurous outdoorsman in a playset with a bunch of wild animals, and look: his arm’s missing. O for fun. Now, look at what was directly under it:
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ITCXX: Real is the new Fake

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Bakelite is plastic. Bakelite is the original fake material. Faux-bakelite is imitation fake material. Costume jewlery is fake jewelry. Reproduction costume jewlery is fake fake jewelry. Faux-bakelite reproduction costume jewlery is fake plastic fake imitation jewlery. I think this means it’s actually made of gold.