Word: faux
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...older folks (Sam Elliott and Mary Steenburgen) teach them life lessons on why it's good to eat pork and pack a rifle. Though The Morgans offers what might seem a welcome respite from all the Oscar-wannabe dramas where Grim Death gargles at you from every scene, its faux-funniness is no less depressing. The movie is like a car wreck in which no one is injured but the onlookers...
...very interesting, but you probably will enjoy watching this. In “The Hapless Kirklandite,” the skit that followed Cross’ presentation, our House Master Nicholas A. Christakis rushed onto the stage in a polar bear suit and began pseudo-attacking two faux Kirkland students...
Last weekend on Saturday Night Live, NBC drove Tiger Woods hard. In a skit, faux Tiger and wife Elin held a press conference, which got interrupted after a surprised Elin heard Tiger admit he had made "multiple transgressions." The shot cut away, but then Tiger returned, arm in a sling, claiming that he accidentally fell down a flight of stairs and "launched [himself] through a plate-glass window." The audience chuckled. In the Weekend Update segment, Seth Meyers teed Tiger up, noting that his sponsors were sticking with him, "a gesture that only means one thing - women don't watch...
According to Rolling Stone: “This prompted Corgan to bring a female audience member onstage and [he] referred to her as ‘James Iha,’ then asked the faux-Iha what she’s been up to.” Amazing. (This took place in late 2008, but I talked about it for two months so it still counts...
...want to skip all that backbreaking plowing, er, clicking, or if you've run out of friends who faux-farm, you can buy farm cash and get what you want. These virtual goods are the products that social games are actually trying to hawk. People hand over real money for make-believe merchandise. It's like using greenbacks to buy Monopoly dollars--but if you want...