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OP If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is. A Mr. Ponzi offered
to double his investors' money in a very short time. Behind his promise of
grandiose returns there was no engine of industry to harness human potential
and generate revenue. It was all a facade, using the money of new investors
to pay off the previous ones. Soon the bubble burst, and with that Ponzi's
name was forever etched in contemporary parlance as an eponym for such
schemes. (Then again, who knows... he may have been ahead of his time and
dealing in Internet stocks :-). At any rate, in this week's AWAD we'll invest
our time in eponyms from fact as well as from fiction.
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted Eponyms Wordsmith 03/27/00 06:08 AM Re: Eponyms RachelDugdale 05/24/00 11:05 AM Re: Eponyms wwh 02/24/01 03:31 PM Re: Eponyms belMarduk 02/25/01 05:10 AM Re: Eponyms tsuwm 02/26/01 03:56 PM Re: Eponyms maverick 02/26/01 06:11 PM Re: Eponyms wwh 02/27/01 02:50 PM Re: Eponyms Jackie 02/28/01 03:02 AM Re: Eponyms jimthedog 03/10/01 11:31 AM Re: Eponyms wwh 03/11/01 04:35 PM Re: Eponyms wwh 03/13/01 01:53 AM Re: Eponyms squid 06/15/01 08:38 AM Re: Eponyms maverick 06/15/01 04:34 PM Re: Eponyms Keiva 02/11/02 05:33 PM Re: Eponyms wwh 02/24/02 05:35 PM Re: Eponyms Keiva 02/24/02 06:15 PM Re: Eponyms AphonicRants 05/19/02 05:29 PM Re: Eponyms mila 03/10/01 04:50 AM Sideburns Sparteye 03/10/01 09:59 PM
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