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BobTheFarmer Posted Jun 18, 2003
Hmmm, why cant democracy and utopia be in there, im certain neither of them have ever existed...
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SomeMuppet Posted Jun 18, 2003
Haggis (little beastie running round the hills of Scotland)
Alien
Starship
Memory of water
Bigfoot
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HarpoNotMarx (((2*1)^6)-6-(2*8)=42 Posted Jun 18, 2003
God [I won't run shy of nominating a lot of people's invisible friend]
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SomeMuppet Posted Jun 18, 2003
ok then
Jesus
Satan
Beelzebub
Prince of Darkness
Gremlin
Goblin
Hobgoblin
Elf
Fairy (or Faery)
Santa Claus
Lucifer
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egon Posted Jun 18, 2003
just an interesting point- I thought the qwuestion was searching for "words" which are for things that don't exist.
Therefore, I would have thought philospher's stone and prince of darkness wouldn't count, as the words themslves represent things that do exist (philosphers, stones, princes and darkness all exist), it's the *phrases* which refer to non-existent things.
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Ommigosh Posted Jun 18, 2003
Words or phrases, does it really matter?
How about Poyais, a fictional country used in an elaborate 19th century scam to get money out of investors.
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sdotyam Posted Jun 19, 2003
Words from works of fiction such as goblin, elf, fairy etc. don`t count because most of us understand the difference between fictional creatures and factual ones. Lord of the Rings for instance is a work of Fiction. Utopia is a word that describes like democracy, a condition of a society that may well have existed at some point in human history, however briefly.
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BobTheFarmer Posted Jun 19, 2003
Utopia and democracy, by mans very nature, cannot exist...
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sdotyam Posted Jun 19, 2003
Democracy:
1 a : government by the people; especially : rule of the majority b : a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections.
This exists by the above definition in the U.K. where I live. It also
exists in many other countries too. o.k.
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BobTheFarmer Posted Jun 19, 2003
Actually, Id call the UK either a plutocracy or a elected dictatorship, but point made...
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Syren Posted Jun 19, 2003
I thought Jesus did exist, it's just the son of god thing that's made up?
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