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"Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket."
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![]() This is a very early use of this term; as far as I know, the earliest mentions of this phrase occur in engineering literature no earlier than 1972.
Compare with the 'sham musculature' from HG Wells' 1898 novel The War of the Worlds and the Joeboy muscle grafts from Neuromancer (1984) by William Gibson. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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