Even if the cranium is not Hitler's but some unknown woman's, the jaws are almost certainly genuine.
Ben Karlin, its executive producer, says: "There's almost nothing genuine about a politician appearing on our show, including those we like.
People think about it and their temples start to throb and they have to go and stand outside for a good few minutes really thinking about their breathing patterns, and for others, it is a source of almost orgasmically genuine pleasure.
Still lean and graceful, Kaká is powerful yet almost balletic, a genuine master of his craft.
But sculpture shows that might broaden our horizons, being costly and difficult to mount, are almost rarer than genuine newly discovered Michelangelos.
They chat easily in broken English and can assess a copy's quality in seconds; the best, rated "super-A," are almost indistinguishable from genuine products.
"However, targeted attacks and well-executed mass mailings can be almost indistinguishable [from genuine emails]." Social media has helped criminals profile individuals, allowing them to be much more easily targeted, he adds.
("We basically won outright in 2011, so why not try to go for Obamacare repeal this time around?") The reality, though, is that sequestration really was a genuine, almost old-fashioned sort of compromise — one that bit deeply into a lot of Republican interests and constituencies, and left the liberal ringwall around entitlements unbreached.
In Venice local craftsmen, trained by Byzantine masters, designed and laid mosaics that are almost indistinguishable from genuine Byzantine work; and in the cathedral at Aquileia the standing prophets and saints painted on the vaults of the crypt look as if they had walked straight out of an Eastern atelier.
