quote:
Originally posted by ManofTheAtom:
And Veitch calls it a knock off.

Veitch is friends with Moore, so why not give his words a little more credit? Don't you think he, above all others, would know his friend's intentions better?

If he says it's a knock off it probably is.

Entry Word: knock off
Function: verb
Text: 1
Synonyms STOP 3, cease, desist, ||deval, discontinue, give over, halt, leave off, quit, surcease
2
Synonyms DEDUCT 1, discount, draw back, substract, subtract, take, take away, take off, take out
3
Synonyms MURDER 1, assassinate, ||bump off, cool, do in, ||dust off, execute, finish, liquidate, put away
|| 4
Synonyms ROB 1, knock over, loot, plunder, ransack, relieve, rifle, rip off, stick up
Knock off sounds a little less harsh than rip off. I don't think Veicht thinks Moore was trying to decieve his readers. Maybe he did mean rip off, but his definition of it is different than mine.