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<blockquote data-quote="SAVORY100" data-source="post: 492975" data-attributes="member: 5830"><p>I also have the Concise Oxford Dictionary on my desk, thank you for sating, verbatim, this dictionaries recorded meaning.</p><p></p><p>The connotative meaning though for me does not sit within the pages of a a dictionary. I believe that a Holy Grail is and should be seen as 'an object that you strive to find, but may never locate'. This is far more in line with the Cup of Christ and has absolutely nothing to do with an R2 saber that you can buy literally every day of the week, or an RF Fett that in the overall collecting world is relatively common compared to multiple MoCs, changes hands more often than folk realise but costs an utter fortune... </p><p></p><p>For me at least, there is absolutely no relation to a Holy Grail and money, if there were it would just be described as a very expensive item, not a Holy Grail. It is not at all about resources or lack of them, it is about the ability (or not) to ever truly find what you are looking for.</p><p></p><p>Don't get me wrong, I have in the past used the term Holy Grail in a manner, that with Hindsight I believe I poorly judged... I classed a Model Trem Han Solo (with blaster) as a Holy Grail, until I got one 18 months later and realised that I'd been classing something that only took one and half years to find in a similar vain to something that should and could take a life time to discover...</p><p>Humorously in contrast I have now been searching for a Han Solo Kenner ESB 32 back MoC for nearly 3 years, nothing to do with funds or price, I've just not even seen one for sale in all that time, but I don't class that as a Holy Grail.. I'm not even sure I have one anymore.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SAVORY100, post: 492975, member: 5830"] I also have the Concise Oxford Dictionary on my desk, thank you for sating, verbatim, this dictionaries recorded meaning. The connotative meaning though for me does not sit within the pages of a a dictionary. I believe that a Holy Grail is and should be seen as 'an object that you strive to find, but may never locate'. This is far more in line with the Cup of Christ and has absolutely nothing to do with an R2 saber that you can buy literally every day of the week, or an RF Fett that in the overall collecting world is relatively common compared to multiple MoCs, changes hands more often than folk realise but costs an utter fortune... For me at least, there is absolutely no relation to a Holy Grail and money, if there were it would just be described as a very expensive item, not a Holy Grail. It is not at all about resources or lack of them, it is about the ability (or not) to ever truly find what you are looking for. Don't get me wrong, I have in the past used the term Holy Grail in a manner, that with Hindsight I believe I poorly judged... I classed a Model Trem Han Solo (with blaster) as a Holy Grail, until I got one 18 months later and realised that I'd been classing something that only took one and half years to find in a similar vain to something that should and could take a life time to discover... Humorously in contrast I have now been searching for a Han Solo Kenner ESB 32 back MoC for nearly 3 years, nothing to do with funds or price, I've just not even seen one for sale in all that time, but I don't class that as a Holy Grail.. I'm not even sure I have one anymore. [/QUOTE]
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