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Deppraisal: All Very Odorous Nothing

They are trinket-like creatures, disguising their true and hellish nature within cutesy forms such as cowboy boots, classic cars, historical busts, vintage radios, antique guns, and fluffy animals.  Their scents are overpowering, for within their bodies lies not blood, but an eau de cologne sprung from the very depths of Hades.  They lurk in attics, in basements, huddled together in cardboard boxes in which their loathsome aromas amass like an army of doom that will charge upon any unsuspecting victim who happens to open their long forgotten crypt.

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Deppraisal: Fashionable and Doomed

Wikipedia defines a fad as “something that becomes very popular with a small group of people for a short period of time. A fad is unpredictable, short lived, and without social, economic, and political significance.” However, I have created a more poignant definition for the word fad by using a backronym. “What is a backronym?” you ask. Well, it’s just another little invention of my twisted mind that is destined to end up in some future edition of the English Dictionary with another one of my lingual derivatives: Deppraisal, the monetary evaluation of something that is believed to be of high value by its owner, but in reality is worth very little down to squat.

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