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  • "The tendency of an object to deteriorate because of built-in instabilities. The object may have materials that are inherently unstable (such as leather that cracks with age) or materials that are incompatible with each other (such as brass tacks on a leather chair seat), or its design is structurally unstable (such as a chair with too-delicate legs)."

    --Treasure Keepers, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 2008

    May 1, 2008

  • Is there an inherent vice squad in Colonial Williamsburg?

    May 1, 2008

  • HA!! HA HA!! Good question!

    May 1, 2008

  • I imagine them dressed in '80s-style garb, Florida colors, no socks, and calling everyone "pal."

    May 1, 2008

  • haha! Inherent Miami Vice! Har!

    May 2, 2008

  • see inherent vice squad too.

    May 2, 2008