Distro Makeover!

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A Distro-statement that might just keep us entertained for the weekend. 

"Any sufficiently advanced Linux Guru can modify any distribution to
make it appear to be any other distribution. "  

I support this statement by starting with the easy stuff.  Even a low
level user like me could select a theme in Fedora that makes the desktop
appear to be Win(something) at a quick glance.  By changing icons, key
mappings and file names the makeover is a little more convincing,
perhaps even during use.  

But what about a more knowledgeable user?  Can a person start with (say)
Ubuntu and make it appear to be (say) Slackware?  Or Fedora to Gentoo? 
Will the makeover stand up to analysis?  How much?   

When you do a makeover like this, when does the distro change from being
the original distro, to a modified-original distro, to an emulated
target distro, to the target distro?  

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