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{{a|metaphor[[File:Opel kadett.jpg|thumb|right|the venerable and, in | {{a|metaphor|[[File:Opel kadett.jpg|thumb|right|the venerable and, in Top Trumps terms, utterly hopeless, Opel Kadett.]]}}A series of children’s card games from the 1970s, excellent for introducing the idea of [[taxonomy|taxonomies]] to aspiring young [[legal eagle|legal eaglets]]. | ||
Each game would feature a certain general type of things likely to appeal to schoolboys (military planes, supercars, dinosaurs, famous prostitutes<ref>Okay, not famous prostitutes. But maybe they missed a trick there.</ref>, mining machinery and so on), each card listing its subject’s standardised attributes. For example, “top speed”; “brake horse power”, “turning circle” — that kind of thing. | Each game would feature a certain general type of things likely to appeal to schoolboys (military planes, supercars, dinosaurs, famous prostitutes<ref>Okay, not famous prostitutes. But maybe they missed a trick there.</ref>, mining machinery and so on), each card listing its subject’s standardised attributes. For example, “top speed”; “brake horse power”, “turning circle” — that kind of thing. | ||
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