And that look always seems to get dated, whether it's danger, Will Robinson, you know, like the funny-looking robot in "Lost in Space" or whether it's, you know, Buck Rogers of the '70s.

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According to my solicitor, the outcome in court would at least in part be determined by whether the judge thought what I said was "funny".

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Yet, in the following days and weeks, people kept knocking on this door asking whether they could buy that funny-shaped radiator.

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