Yet the conventional business media is still awash in jargon-spewing drones that only too recently indulged in the sale of a bogus boom time that was never supposed to end.
As inventions of bogus deep-time traditions go, British druidism has to be one of the most enduringly successful.
He believes there was "a conspiracy to set me up" and that the paper may have known the allegation was bogus at the time the story was printed.
Samantha Bond is infectiously enjoyable as haughty, naughty Mrs Prentice, and to be congratulated on her ability to deliver the line "My uterine contractions have been bogus for some time" with head-held-high triumph.
That wonderful line in What the Butler Saw, when Mrs Prentice says: "My uterine contractions have been bogus for some time," I can hear my mother in that: it's the same rhythm.
Mr. Brown does not realize the signature is bogus, at any time in the show.
Other times, bogus patents live on in limbo, unchallenged and unasserted, impressing no one except, perhaps, investors who hope for a fat portfolio of intellectual property.
While it may seem like they are ultimately promoting an unethical or bogus company, many times they truly didn't know any better when they got involved.
To avoid being sold bogus educational qualifications, take time to understand the accreditation systems.
Southwestern Bell, a unit of SBC Communications, said that the bogus orders cost it time and money.
For those reasons, Henry J. Aaron, an economist and a longtime health policy analyst at the Brookings Institution and the Institute of Medicine, called Mr. Romney's vow to repeal the savings "both puzzling and bogus at the same time".
