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Just some more about that bizarre word.
Tatterdemalion is a fictional character and Supervillain in the Marvel Comics universe, who wore gloves either coated with or secreting a chemical agent which dissolved any material composed of paper, such as dollar bills. His appearance suggested that he was homeless, and he was apparently insane, which presumably explains why he would want to destroy currency.
The Tatterdemalion King is also another name for Hastur.
Hastur The Unspeakable One, Him Who Is Not to be Named, Assatur, Xastur, or Kaiwan). is a fictional character in the Cthulu Mythos. Hastur first appeared in Ambrose Bierce's short story "Haïta the Shepherd" as a benign god of shepherds. Robert W. Chambers later used Hastur in his own stories to represent both a person and a place associated with the names of several stars, including Aldebaran. (weirdy stuff)
But in Francis Grose's 1785 "The Vulgar Tongue" (Buckish Slang and Pickpocket Eloquence) Tatterdemalion features under T as:
Tatterdemallion (two l's). A ragged fellow, whose clothes hang all in tatters.
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"Who's scruffy looking?"
-Han Solo
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Ah!- scruffy looking nerf herder
1. Derogatory term used by Princess Leia in order to demean Han Solo, thus hiding her true emotions.
Even movie lines get dictionaried?
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...showing how the Titans of American Industry, if not homeless, are surely insane. No doubt somebody high in the Marketing Department of 3M misunderstood the requirement, directing his chemists to develop the agent for Tatterdemalion a detergent for laundering money
If you think that's far fetched, consider that the plastic compounded to make the swimming-pool solar cover is dissolved by trace amounts of chlorine
Really, literally, honest to God
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Well, that just calls for another quote: "But you should have seen us alone in the south passage, where she expressed her true feelings for me." -Han Solo These as blocks of audio can be a riot in certain - situations. 
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...while in a world where sending rockets to the moon 38 years ago got to be so common we quit doing it, the compound intended to relieve deprdession causes suicide and software is written wherein 18 keystrokes are required to restore spellcheck
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