;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
;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
over the moon!
The bufoon is the grandest of all granfaloons. I their pantaloons and pretty balloons they dance and preen and simper about their wit. Finally they are as empty of breath as the flaccid balloon, and their pants have fallen to the floor. Standing, exposed, deflated, their prowess gone, their madness complete, they whimper one more time, “GDUDT,” to which all reply MAGA.
Dems and Media, media and dems, nothing is between them, the granfaloon society with bells.
“He was also always quite drunk.”
I always wondered if he wasn’t suffering from PTSD.
And now for a comment in a slightly differnt fashion:-)
If y’all are ever in Kansas City
http://www.thegranfalloon.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=81&Itemid=87
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
As I recall, the Grand Poobah was the leader of this group of granfaloons...
I will be sure to inbibe at the Granfaloon when I hit KC.
Yes. We all need membership in a club of no import, no rules, and no consequence. But it must be membered by at least 2.
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