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egon Started conversation Jul 19, 2004
"I've long known that Claptrap means rubbish or nonsense. I was browsing in a dictionary the other day, as one does, and learned that it came from things one could say on a stage or to an audience that meant very little, but were automatic applause-getters. (Things that literally trap, well, clapping.) And it's also the name of a machine they had once in old theatres that simulated the sound of applause. It's such a good word: anything declaimed from the stage that gets people clapping without thinking. Claptrap. And just as applicable to any side in a political debate..."
-Neil Gaiman, yesterday (http://www.neilgaiman.com/journal/journal.asp)
Claptrap
Mu Beta Posted Jul 23, 2004
It's not my fault you only get silly replies to your journal postings. 
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