I guess that's the world of art though, a bunch of disconnected assholes accusing each other of being phoneys.
"There's a part of me that doesn't want to be phoney.
The chunky faux-gold nugget that we have feels good in the hand, but since its launch in 1983 it has become easy to forge, and now about one in 40 of them is phoney.
H L Mencken, the sage of Baltimore and the scourge of all that was phoney and flabby in American culture in the first half of the 20th century, declared that any good critic was acting not from "the motive of the pedagogue, but the motive of the artist".
"Either he's showing a serious lack of judgement or these are phoney words of concern when he's quite content to see the wealthiest get away without paying their fair share".
Therefore 32 billion lire of Fininvest Roma's paid-up share capital of 52 billion lire were phoney.In 1980, 20.05 billion lire was put into the holding companies in cash or equivalent, including 19.2 billion in late December 1980 (see table 2).
Not all those prescriptions are phoney, of course, but presumably America did not become a 48% more painful place during those nine years.
Knowing which local organisations are legitimate representatives and which are phoney creations of criminal businessman can be a headache.
That's the trouble with PMQs, the hubbub is phoney, evidence of a compensating enthusiasm for their party leaders that MPs do not really feel.
When it is genuine, amateurism makes sport the preserve of the rich; when it is phoney (as in the pre-Samaranch era), it pays athletes less than they should rightfully get.
Michigan, anyway, is home to Romney: his father was a popular governor there, and the state plays well to his record as a business executive - which will be a relief since he was accused of being a phoney after his recent conversion to the pro-life, anti-gay marriage cause.
