From Wikipedia:
Snake oil is a traditional Chinese medicine made from the Chinese water snake (Enhydris chinensis), which is used to treat joint pain. However, the most common usage of the phrase is as a derogatory term for compounds offered as medicines that implies that they are fake, fraudulent, quackish, or ineffective. The expression is also applied metaphorically to any product with exaggerated marketing but questionable or unverifiable quality or benefit.
That is all.
Webster
Exactly
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EDIT: Not intended for political purposes...
who is that one guy that has
who is that one guy that has a dictionary that we used for information?
nothing meant again OP just
nothing meant again OP just love how Wikipedia had become the norm (me included.) I used to use my dictionary app all the time on my iPhone but now it seems I default to wiki app.
I like wikipedia...
It isn't good for formal research, but it is great for everything else. And even for doing research, most entries have legitimate sources at the bottom. I have found that it is pretty easy to distinguish between entries and parts thereof that have been legitimately researched, those that are anecdotal, and those that hackers put in just from their writing style and use of references.
I question wiki, but I question everything, so it's NBD.
Dict-ion-ary...
And that would be what, precisely?
According to wikipedia...
A
According to wikipedia...
A dictionary is a collection of words in a specific language, often listed alphabetically, with usage information, definitions, etymologies, phonetics, pronunciations, and other information;[1] or a book of words in one language with their equivalents in another, also known as a lexicon.[1] According to Nielsen 2008 a dictionary may be regarded as a lexicographical product that is characterised by three significant features: (1) it has been prepared for one or more functions; (2) it contains data that have been selected for the purpose of fulfilling those functions; and (3) its lexicographic structures link and establish relationships between the data so that they can meet the needs of users and fulfil the functions of the dictionary.
You win
the internet.
uhhhh
For God's sake
Someone throw in the towel, they're gonna kill each other!
What the Hell. -Jack Burton
I don't know about this
I don't know about this chinese snake oil stuff, but I sure would like to get a hold of that Magic Soccer Spray that seems to heal gunshotlike wounds on the soccer field in a matter of seconds.
“That is a total f***ing lie. It is bullsh*t and it is horse sh*t, and people need to be held accountable" -Jim Leyland
too soon.
too soon.
Snake Oil Month
Is February. Wait until then.
Fenkell and Schaefer is the hood that I claim...
Wiki forgot that
Snake oil is known to cause irritability to those with:
...
Awesome
great pic..hilarious, my brothers and I joke about that commercial all the time
At the risk of being
At the risk of being pedantic, Tiller's first usage (unlike the uses on this board) actually made sense:
He accused RR of being a "snake-oil salesman with a wizard-hat on" - in other words, a guy tricking people with grandiose but false promises. He was implying that RR got Roundtree from him when, in all likliehood, he'd rot on the bench.
wolverineliberationarmy.com/blog
says pretty much the same thing.