Someone has been tampering with their movie history, altering elements of those intergalactic classics, which some feel is akin to an act of vandalism.
Whoever thought of appropriating the word for the ugly metal-lattice structures that carry high-tension power lines across the countryside was therefore guilty of both a public-relations triumph and an act of etymological vandalism.
Mr Blair's political opponents, especially those in the Conservative Party, cannot decide whether to portray these and other constitutional changes as an act of careless vandalism or as a deliberate plot to destroy a political union that has worked well for almost 300 years.