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* [[RasputinTheMadMonk Grigori Rasputin]]

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** NoSuchAgency (from an unknown DeadpanSnarker who joked that the initials of the [[{{NSA}} National Security Agency]], which deals mainly with cryptology and ELINT analysis, really stood for that)

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Actually those laws disenfranchised a fair bit of white folks. And not always "by accident"


* GrandfatherClause: The idiom comes out of a loophole written into the Jim Crow laws to the effect that anyone whose grandfather was able to vote didn't have to pay a poll tax or take a literacy test in order to vote. This ensured poor whites could vote, but poor blacks couldn't.

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* GrandfatherClause: The idiom comes out of a loophole written into the Jim Crow laws to the effect that anyone whose grandfather was able to vote didn't have to pay a poll tax or take a literacy test in order to vote. This ensured poor most whites could vote, but poor blacks couldn't.couldn't and immigrants usually couldn't, either.
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** RatedMForManly (cross-reference to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mB6fq9Aadwk the video]] "''VideoGame/{{Counter-Strike}}'' [[{{Bowdlerise}} For Kids]]")

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** RatedMForManly (cross-reference to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mB6fq9Aadwk the video]] "''VideoGame/{{Counter-Strike}}'' "''VideoGame/CounterStrike'' [[{{Bowdlerise}} For Kids]]")
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* CargoCult (natives conducting rituals to lure back the WorldWarTwo supply planes; famous for UsefulNotes/RichardFeynman's lecture on "Cargo Cult Science")

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* WardrobeMalfunction (from the infamous SuperBowl XXXVIII performance by JanetJackson and JustinTimberlake)

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* {{Narcissist}} (directly, though indirectly from ClassicalMythology)

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* TheEmperor (the term which lent this trope its name, ''Imperator'', originated in the [[TheRomanEmpire Roman Empire]] - or rather the [[TheRomanRepublic Republic]], if you wanted to get really specific)

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* TheEmperor (the term which lent this trope its name, ''Imperator'', originated in the [[TheRomanEmpire [[UsefulNotes/TheRomanEmpire Roman Empire]] - or rather the [[TheRomanRepublic [[UsefulNotes/TheRomanRepublic Republic]], if you wanted to get really specific)
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* PyrrhicVictory (King Pyrrhus of Epirus)
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* LiesDamnedLiesAndStatistics (attributed to Creator/BenjaminDisraeli and MarkTwain)

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* EEqualsMCHammer ([[JustForPun cross-reference]] to MCHammer and AlbertEinstein's theories of relativity)

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* CargoCult (natives conducting rituals to lure back the WorldWarTwo supply planes; famous for RichardFeynman's lecture on "Cargo Cult Science")

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** IronCurtain (although he apparently wasn't the first to use this phrase, he was certainly the most notable)
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