# Maupassant's "The Necklace" ethics

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 18, 2010, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maupassants-the-necklace-ethics/557562 "2010-10-18T16:26:01Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 18, 2010, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maupassants-the-necklace-ethics/557562/21 "2010-10-18T19:51:46Z")

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> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#):
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> What does NOK mean?

Not Our Kind. A rung up from being an animal, but a rung down from being a human.

Anyway, this whole story is redolent of “Three’s Company” if that show were written by a bitter petty clerk obsessed with late 19th Century classism.

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