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Word For The Day: GRANFALOON
5/24/17 | Lou

Posted on 05/23/2017 6:51:23 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell

Word For The Day, Thursday, April 30, 2015--

for 5/24= granfalloon

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In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".

granfaloon

(gran fa LUNE) hear it pronounced

noun

A group of two or more people who imagine or are manipulated to believe they share a connection based on some circumstance of little or no real significance.

A granfalloon, in the fictional religion of Bokononism, is defined as a "false karass." That is, it is a group of people who outwardly choose or claim to have a shared identity or purpose, but whose mutual association is actually meaningless.

Origin: Coined by Kurt Vonnegut in the 1963 science fiction novel, Cat's Cradle, in which Vonnegut described the term as referencing a false karass, or "a proud and meaningless association of human beings"; later adopted by market researchers and social scientists


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To: Louis Foxwell

http://tbrnews.com/news/hermosa_beach/ffff-is-closing-sept-after-years/article_2c1319de-45a7-11e4-b617-cba57bfd3ddb.html

Not granfaloon but close.


21 posted on 05/23/2017 7:10:55 PM PDT by DBrow
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To: MUDDOG

The character and sidekick was lost when Jack Webb moved to TV. A great loss.


22 posted on 05/23/2017 7:14:46 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (Progressivism is 2 year olds in a poop fight.)
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To: BipolarBob

Adios compadre and may bygones be gone.


23 posted on 05/23/2017 7:15:54 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (Progressivism is 2 year olds in a poop fight.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

The best part for me was the back-and-forth between Novak and Inspector Hellman. Classic!


24 posted on 05/23/2017 7:19:55 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: MUDDOG

It’s still on Youtube


25 posted on 05/23/2017 7:20:08 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Don't be a pessimist, be an optometrist.)
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To: DBrow

Close indeed. FFFF is a quintessential knockoff of the Granfaloon’s Tavern in York, PA. a place of no particular fame and acclaim.


26 posted on 05/23/2017 7:21:24 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (Progressivism is 2 year olds in a poop fight.)
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To: MUDDOG

Hellman was acerbic but no drunk.


27 posted on 05/23/2017 7:22:30 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (Progressivism is 2 year olds in a poop fight.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

"...grandfaloonies.....liberal snowflakes"

28 posted on 05/23/2017 7:24:04 PM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: Louis Foxwell

Incohol and granfaloons just don’t mix.


29 posted on 05/23/2017 7:26:16 PM PDT by ichabod1 (I call Obama "osama" because he damaged us far more than Osama bin Ladin ever did.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

A buffoon who thinks the world is a granfaloon:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3554613/posts

Hey, we all belong together because we have two legs.


30 posted on 05/23/2017 7:28:23 PM PDT by MoochPooch (I'm a compassionate cynic.)
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To: Louis Foxwell
I lived in Tucson Arizona years ago and marveled at the existence of an "Ohio Club," composed of perfect strangers who all happened to have moved there from Ohio. They would gather in the park and, I guess, trade stories about Ohio, since they had nothing else in common and no other reason to be there. Great example of a granfaloon.
31 posted on 05/23/2017 7:38:22 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: MoochPooch

Another granfaloon is Chelsea gibberish.


32 posted on 05/23/2017 7:38:49 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (Progressivism is 2 year olds in a poop fight.)
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To: hinckley buzzard

Many such aggregations persist in Florida.


33 posted on 05/23/2017 7:39:57 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (Progressivism is 2 year olds in a poop fight.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

David Horowitz’s Book “Unholy Alliance” explores the granfaloon of Marxism and Islam, whose only common ground is that they hate America’s freedom.


34 posted on 05/23/2017 9:28:30 PM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: left that other site

The Hate America club is the epitome of granfaloon societies.


35 posted on 05/24/2017 3:46:40 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (Progressivism is 2 year olds in a poop fight.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

Yes Indeed.


36 posted on 05/24/2017 6:56:48 AM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

The loony coexist left granfaloon
Fall for the fateful false balloon.
“Islamaphobia is more dangerous
Than bombs that destroy us.”
Believes the politically correct buffoon.


37 posted on 05/24/2017 7:14:31 AM PDT by tioga
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To: Louis Foxwell

Snowflakes dance to the Dems toon
Believing Trump will be gone soon
Throw him out
They like to shout
With the rest of the libs in their granfaloon


38 posted on 05/24/2017 7:19:27 AM PDT by dblshot (I am John Galt.)
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To: dblshot

tune, dang it, must have been thinking cartoon people.


39 posted on 05/24/2017 7:21:18 AM PDT by dblshot (I am John Galt.)
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To: Louis Foxwell
Word for the day haiku:

Dems and media:
a dangerous granfaloon
spreading Russia lies.

40 posted on 05/24/2017 7:33:13 AM PDT by SFConservative
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