Word: fakeness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Thomas (aka J.T.T.), better known as Randy on the hit sitcom "Home Improvement," plays Jake Wilkinson, a collegiate Scrooge who divides his time between wooing his girlfriend Allie (Jessica Biel) and running a fake ID service. Because he would rather stay in California than go home to New York for the holidays, our hero's father (Gary Cole) promises him a Porsche (!) if he makes it home by 6 p.m. on Christmas Day. This is a prospect Jake finds too tempting to pass up. Jake's business, however, botches one too many assignments, and some unhappy customers toss him into...
...Fake) Windows...
...counterfeit copies of Microsoft's Windows 98 have landed in the U.S. The company has this warning: check your disc. True copies have a hologram near the hole in the middle that flips from "genuine" to "Microsoft," plus a heat-sensitive thread woven into the certificate of authenticity. A fake might work, but if it malfunctions, tech support won't be able to do a thing...
However, Weisbard said he sees room for all three publications on-campus. Satire V uses "a different medium--fake news--and is a direct way to address social issues that need to be discussed at Harvard," he said...
...popular theater what the computer generation of dinosaurs and space oddities is to movies today. Arthur Conan Doyle was the son of a fairy painter, Charles Altamont Doyle, who died mad, but the creator of Sherlock Holmes was so gullible himself that as late as 1917 he defended some fake photos of fairies made by an enterprising pair of teenage English schoolgirls. You'd almost suppose that the national emblem of England was neither the lion nor the unicorn nor even John Bull, but the fairy...