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[A]dvertising is replete with testimonials and me-tooisms that reflect the power of the Adaptation Motive in the real world. Most people select a physician, dentist or attorney on the basis of someone else's recommendation because very few of use have the proper credential to decide who is or is not a good doctor or surgeon.

In the old days of Magic the Gathering, the flavor text was almost all serious, sometimes even with quotes from Shakespeare or Edgar Allen Poe thrown in.

Many years afterwards I baked a large cake of shortbread as a New Year's surprise to some friends at Huddersfield during my professionalship there.