# Why Is An Oscar An Oscar ?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-an-oscar-an-oscar/979>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [July 11, 1999, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-an-oscar-an-oscar/979 "1999-07-11T12:49:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 1999, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-an-oscar-an-oscar/979/1 "1999-07-11T12:49:00Z")

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I’ve held more than one of these puppies. Now, there is something amazing about them, and it is completely a social phenom. Other awards of this ilk (Including an Emmy, which I have also fondled) just DON’T have the panache… the allure… the elan… the… the… (I’m fresh out of French-type phrases here).  
It’s heavy, and gold, and cool. As Hannibal Lechter, Psychiatrist and Carnivore said in the famed flick, “Silence of the Lambs” - " You covet what you see. " People covet it. I find it horrific that they can be bought at auction like an old lamp.

🙂  
Typer

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 1999, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-an-oscar-an-oscar/979/2 "1999-07-11T13:00:00Z")

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The link to the original Mailbag item is:  
[http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/moscar.html](http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/moscar.html)

I’m not intending to do this much in future, but I thought it would help get the trend started.