Word For The Day: GRANFALOON

5/24/17 | Lou

[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

[Louis Foxwell]

Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.

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[ifinnegan]

Vonnegut’s granfallons, wampeters and foma is a bunch of hooey from a bitter misanthropic sad sack.

[ifinnegan]

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?)

[Louis Foxwell]

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.

[shibumi]

"If you wish to discover a Granfaloon,
Just remove the skin from a toy baloon."

[Louis Foxwell]

Better, and we likey.

[Louis Foxwell]

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

[shibumi]

"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.

[shibumi]

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

[Louis Foxwell]

Hence, his bitter, misanthropic, sad sack condition.

[shibumi]

Zackley.

[BipolarBob]

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

[Robert A Cook PE]

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

[Chode]

you mean democRATS...

[Louis Foxwell]

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.

[MUDDOG]

Pat Novak would’ve been lost without Jocko Madigan.

[Louis Foxwell]

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

[Louis Foxwell]

But of course.

[BipolarBob]

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

[Louis Foxwell]

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