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Re: Caesar the pompous ass

#22052 03/20/2001 3:27 PM

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malendipity came to mind, and when i googled it to see if it had been coined before, i stumbled upon "Schlimmbesserung", which is evidently a German word (who'd have guessed?) meaning "an [ostensible] improvement that makes things worse". the example cited by one site is the invention of the styrofoam cup.

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