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  • The Iraqi is really not whacky Toady, perhaps, even tacky. When they gave him the word He gave us the bird And joined with the Arabs, by cracky!

    - Dean Gooderham Acheson
    Limerick written during dull meeting of Foreign Ministers. Quoted in Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas The Wise Men (1986).

  • Polyester†the most valuable word to come out of the 70s, the one that defines tacky for all time.

    -Anonymous
      'Prettier Poly', NewYork Times editorial, 21 Mar.

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