The Iraqi is really not whacky Toady, perhaps, even tacky. When they gave him the word He gave us the bird And joined with the Arabs, by cracky!

-Acheson, Dean Gooderham
Limerick written during dull meeting of Foreign Ministers. Quoted in Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas The Wise Men (1986).

Polyester†the most valuable word to come out of the 70s, the one that defines tacky for all time.

-Anonymous
  'Prettier Poly', NewYork Times editorial, 21 Mar.