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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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1 posted on 05/23/2017 6:51:23 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell
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Vonnegut’s granfallons, wampeters and foma is a bunch of hooey from a bitter misanthropic sad sack.


2 posted on 05/23/2017 6:54:27 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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Vonnegut’s granfallons, wampeters and foma is a bunch of hooey from a bitter misanthropic sad sack who would be among the most afflicted with TDS if he were were still among the living.

(How’s that?)


3 posted on 05/23/2017 6:56:17 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Louis Foxwell; xsmommy; secret garden; VRWCmember; SoothingDave; Texan5; NicknamedBob; ...

This should be great fun, bigly so. There are a welter of candidates from BLM to ANTIFA to the DNC. These are all meaningless agglomerations of wackos bent on their individual madness. Have fun.


4 posted on 05/23/2017 6:57:09 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (Progressivism is 2 year olds in a poop fight.)
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To: Louis Foxwell
"If you wish to discover a Granfaloon,
Just remove the skin from a toy baloon."

5 posted on 05/23/2017 6:57:12 PM PDT by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: ifinnegan

Better, and we likey.


6 posted on 05/23/2017 6:58:02 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (Progressivism is 2 year olds in a poop fight.)
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To: shibumi

Seems to me I found the word in just such a context. Perfect.


7 posted on 05/23/2017 6:58:59 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (Progressivism is 2 year olds in a poop fight.)
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To: ifinnegan
"Vonnegut’s granfallons, wampeters and foma is a bunch of hooey from a bitter misanthropic sad sack."

Having met Vonnegut personally and conversed with him at length I would hasten to point out that you left out one very important thing.

He was also always quite drunk.

8 posted on 05/23/2017 6:59:57 PM PDT by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

That’s a quote from Cat’s Cradle - not original with me.


9 posted on 05/23/2017 7:01:25 PM PDT by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: shibumi

Hence, his bitter, misanthropic, sad sack condition.


10 posted on 05/23/2017 7:02:06 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (Progressivism is 2 year olds in a poop fight.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

Zackley.


11 posted on 05/23/2017 7:03:47 PM PDT by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

Hey! Don’t paint all drunks with the same wide brush.


12 posted on 05/23/2017 7:05:01 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Don't be a pessimist, be an optometrist.)
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To: ifinnegan; Louis Foxwell; SoothingDave

Iffen you paid 1002.00 dollars fer a Canadian waterfowl coin .. You’d have lost a Grandferloon.


13 posted on 05/23/2017 7:05:37 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Louis Foxwell
you mean democRATS...
14 posted on 05/23/2017 7:06:21 PM PDT by Chode (My job is not to represent the world. My job is to represent the United States of America-#45 DJT)
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To: shibumi

And, of course, is my source, embellished by a massive cadre of blithering nincompoops spreading their vomit all over the fruited plain in an effort to dethrone the duly elected King of Chaos. May he reign supreme and end the madness.


15 posted on 05/23/2017 7:06:34 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (Progressivism is 2 year olds in a poop fight.)
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To: BipolarBob

Pat Novak would’ve been lost without Jocko Madigan.


16 posted on 05/23/2017 7:07:59 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

Loooney is as looney does. They are my favorite waterfowl.


17 posted on 05/23/2017 7:08:17 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (Progressivism is 2 year olds in a poop fight.)
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To: Chode

But of course.


18 posted on 05/23/2017 7:09:01 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (Progressivism is 2 year olds in a poop fight.)
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To: MUDDOG

Indeed! I’m gonna saddle my granfaloon and gallop on out of here to where I’m not appreciated.


19 posted on 05/23/2017 7:10:24 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Don't be a pessimist, be an optometrist.)
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To: BipolarBob

All drunks are painted with a broad brush. They comprise an excellent granfaloon.


20 posted on 05/23/2017 7:10:43 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (Progressivism is 2 year olds in a poop fight.)
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