"Bogus" said Ted Longbottom, a surfer who shall remain nameful.  This
exclamation, I noted, was in response to a particularly painful
'wipeout', of which a fellow Californian raisin had partaken seconds
before.

"Are you suggesting, through your usage of this term," I enquired of
him, "that all things which are bad are also somehow FABRICATED?
That, perhaps, all oppression throughout history was falsified?  That
the crimes of the past were due to some erroneous typist?  That the
bigotry and hatred that even now pervade our society are somewhat
questionable as regards their very EXISTENCE?"

"Dude, no," he said.  "I think that guy's leg is broken."

"I think SOCIETY'S leg is broken," I retorted.  "And I assure you that
the previous analogy is certainly NOT bogus."  And with that, I strode
away from the young malcontent and into the nearest available open
manhole.

		-- Luke Whitmore