Tangents include spam, blatant ads for services, and all manner of ad hominem claptrap.
And I loved those characters, particularly Claptrap, who turned a killfest into a laughfest.
For decades politicians had mouthed their support for a strong currency, but Nixon cut through the claptrap.
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It also suggested Scientology was a lot of bogus claptrap aimed at parting vulnerable and rich people with their money.
Treasurer Wayne Swan labeled their views as "xenophobic claptrap" at the time.
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Does he really believe any of that claptrap or is he just trying to evoke a response and sell more copies of the publication?
As with Iraq, it is his opponent, Barack Obama, who is having to track towards the centre, trying to renounce some of the crowd-pleasing claptrap he uttered in the primaries.
Such claptrap is the bedrock of countless Hollywood movies in which an intrepid whistleblower dodges black helicopters, robotic-like thugs in black suits, and spraying bullets to triumph over corporate evil.
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You hand out invitations to people all over town (who promptly decline to come) and then when you return to him, the game forces you to sit there for two minutes while no one shows up and Claptrap tries to make awkward small talk with you at his empty party.
Claptrap breaks the fourth wall with gusto, assigning absurd MMO-styled instructions (collect brown rocks, then defeat a high-level monster, find a lost staff, bring him the head of the Destroyer of Worlds and then dance for his amusement) to complete a quest which, it turns out, can be finished by clicking on a door six feet away.
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