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A discussion the other night about movie taglines reminded me of my favorite one. The film Howard the Duck was a terrible failure, one of the great failures of movie history as I understand it. However, the ads were great. There was the duck on the poster, poking his head through something and looking freaked, and the tagline was "Trapped in a world he never made."

Which was enough of an in-joke that I'm sure they didn't care at that point who didn't get it; the movie was already tanked.

Who remembers why they used that? And can quote the source? Hm? ;)

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[eyeteeth.livejournal.com]

Well, so far as I know, the first instance of that term was A. E. Housman's line: "I, a stranger and afraid/In a world I never made." Wasn't it also used liberally in the comic books?