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Examples
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Schmerge and his grandpa are both IEC members and said working on their Edsels is the best part of owning them.
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In "The Star Machine," Jeanine Basinger describes the lesser-known "Edsels," her term for actors who didn't work out.
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Jeff Koons on BMW's Art Car Car Dealer Scams to Avoid The Most Popular Cars for Men and Women Of course, many "flopped" cars have enthusiastically loyal cult followings: '80s-philes love the Back-To-The-Future-famous DeLorean, and collectors pay thousands of dollars for hard-to-find Edsels.
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The nuclear family of Leave it to Beaver tools around in nuclear powered Edsels driven by Don Draper-like fathers with June Cleaver mothers at their side.
Bart Motes: Fallout: New Vegas Bart Motes 2010
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The nuclear family of Leave it to Beaver tools around in nuclear powered Edsels driven by Don Draper-like fathers with June Cleaver mothers at their side.
Bart Motes: Fallout: New Vegas Bart Motes 2010
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Deader than Edsels, my brother, way deader than Edsels ...
Dry Rot 2010
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Or an obsessive love of Edsels, or electronic eavesdropping, or a compulsive need to examine tongues or put clothes on cats.
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Granted, they are the Edsels of ballistic missiles.
Keith Thomson: U.S. Intelligence -- or the Lack Thereof -- on North Korea 2009
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The granddaddy of them all doesn't have to survive for the breed to prosper; if that were true, people would still be driving Edsels.
‘Sesame Street’ 2009
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And two model Ford Edsels will remind older viewers of a design that so failed to win a popular following that it became a sort of joke, but that now, half a century later, seems not only aesthetically appealing but not so radically different from other cars of the same era.
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