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Gullectibles?
Bravo. 
I was busy trying to craft some allusion to flotsam and/or jetsam.
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items which have been produced for the sole purpose of sale to a gullible public?"
Gullectibles?
Bravo, mav. Now to submit that coinage to the (as Mad magazine so aptly called it) Crank'em out Mint.
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I have a friend who, on one of her trips to Germany, took a present over for a friend. She clearly labeled the box it was in Gift to indicate to customs that it was something she was bringing in for someone else. She forgot (she is fluent in German but doesn't translate very well, since she tends to be in one language or the other) that Gift means poison in German. Customs was all over her like a wet noodle on a cheap suit.
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I've always seen this vogue for collectorabilia as the last resort of a nation with not enough antiques to go round.
Head down emoticon, waiting for the rotten eggs
Given that the current desgner vogue here is minimalism and everyone seems to be getting rid of everything, I predict the end of the Franklin Mint - it was the Diana doll that did it for me - there is only so much a soul can bear!
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jmh opined I've always seen this vogue for collectorabilia as the last resort of a nation with not enough antiques to go round.So, when are you giving the Elgin Marbles back?  
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>So, when are you giving the Elgin Marbles back? Its a fair cop
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Collectables??? One really has to buy something to collect??? Only those with more money than they need. And it really is not a true collectable unless there is a buyer for that item, so in the meantime, they collect dust and accumulate like dust in one's house. Hence,the term "dust collectors". enthusiast
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Gullectables!!!! This is the best word of all.
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>So, when are you giving the Elgin Marbles back?
Its a fair cop
Ok, I hear Elgin pronounced with a hard g in the BBC programs that are received here ... Prior to the proliferation of BBC programs received I had always heard it pronounced EL-jin.
In US we have an expression when we win -- we walk away with "all the marbles."
Any connection? ...comments?
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>n US we have an expression when we win -- we walk away with "all the marbles."
Any connection? ...comments?
Nope. When I walk away with all the marbles it means I won them at a marbles competition. Just on the very off chance that outlanders might not know, marbles are small orbs that kids used to play with, originally made of stone or perhaps ceramics, but now almost exclusively glass. And very ornamental at that.
I've never seen a marble made of marble, probably because they wouldn't last very long. Marble stone isn't particularly hard.
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