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* ''[[Chopping Block]]'' had Butch [http://choppingblock.keenspot.com/d/20010815.html participate] in the endless strife: it's a [[Voodoo Doll|Voodoo action figure]]!
* ''[[El Goonish Shive]]: [[Side-Story Bonus Art|Newspaper]]'' [http://www.egscomics.com/egsnp.php?id=181 Fairy Doll customization arc] had Tedd (currently catgirl) commenting on Susan acting more girly than she [[Straw Feminist|used to pretend being]]. Susan still [[Hidden Heart of Gold|argues]] that despite what the spell's name in the spellbook says, and her own musing aloud about playing dress-up with it, the object in question should be called an "action figure".
* In ''[[Dilbert]]'' a robot [https://dilbert.com/strip/2017-10-28 insists] on not being a droid. Or computer.
* ''[[Nerf NOW!!]]'' has a <s>[[The Shill|shill]]</s> [https://www.nerfnow.com/comic/2632 Sponsored Devotee].
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* The USA does not use "Torture"; it uses "Aggressive Interrogation Methods".
** [[Bill O Reilly]] called torture "coercive interrogation".
* Murray Gell-Mann [https://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2019/05/remembering-murray-gell-mann-1929-2019-inventor-of-quarks/ did this a lot], including "g times ψ function" he invented not being called "beta function".
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