;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
Not granfaloon but close.
The character and sidekick was lost when Jack Webb moved to TV. A great loss.
Adios compadre and may bygones be gone.
The best part for me was the back-and-forth between Novak and Inspector Hellman. Classic!
It’s still on Youtube
Close indeed. FFFF is a quintessential knockoff of the Granfaloon’s Tavern in York, PA. a place of no particular fame and acclaim.
Hellman was acerbic but no drunk.
"...grandfaloonies.....liberal snowflakes"
Incohol and granfaloons just don’t mix.
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.
Another granfaloon is Chelsea gibberish.
Many such aggregations persist in Florida.
David Horowitz’s Book “Unholy Alliance” explores the granfaloon of Marxism and Islam, whose only common ground is that they hate America’s freedom.
The Hate America club is the epitome of granfaloon societies.
Yes Indeed.
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.
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
tune, dang it, must have been thinking cartoon people.
Dems and media:
a dangerous granfaloon
spreading Russia lies.
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