Now, though, for the first time, somebody genuinely merits the comparison.
The prism design for the group's blockbuster Dark Side of the Moon (1973) genuinely merits that much over-used term "iconic", and the image of a blazing businessman on a studio back lot on Wish You Were Here (1975) provoked endless late-night discussion among Floyd cognoscenti.
Yet an innovative programme here known as SAPII – an acronym of its Spanish name, 'Sistema de Atención y Protección Integral a la Infancia ' – genuinely merits celebration.
Are they after three years of fun or are they taking a degree to advance their academic credentials and attain a qualification that genuinely has merit because of its subject matter or the institution from where it was gained?Why should the taxpayers finance the former?
In a genuinely open, merit-based contest, the 25-member executive board's deliberations should have been preceded by debates between the candidates.
That's unlikely to happen, though, since he seems to believe, genuinely, in the merits of keeping taxes low for the very rich.
Yet Klein argues that, despite our inclination to marvel, or even laugh, the prospect of Trump in the White House is genuinely terrifying and suddenly merits a new kind of serious contemplation.
"The crux of the matter is whether the proposed premises are genuinely separate premises that merit their own licence with, for example, the machine entitlements that brings and are not an artificially created part of what is readily identifiable as a single premises".
The guy probably genuinely believes in the merits of a transparency society where everybody's life is essentially on display all the time.
The procedure has the merit, sometimes, of genuinely preventing villains from taking over.
