Word for the Day, Tuesday June 13, 2017

[SoothingDave]

Word For The Day, Tuesday June 13, 2017

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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".

humblebrag [huhm-buh l-brag]

-n
1. a statement intended as a boast or brag but disguised by a humble apology, complaint, etc.

-vi
2. to make such a disguised boast or brag

[First recorded in 2005-10; humble + brag]

[SoothingDave]

Morning!

[smartymarty]

Good morning!
Humblebrag: ...”Well, at least I’m not drinking hard
liquor.” Humblebrag

[Robert A Cook PE]

Not to be humblebrag, but smootysmarty was first in the classroom.
(Somebody else was second.)

[SoothingDave]

On IFC’s “Brockmire”:

Tell them I’m not drinking...

Hard liquor...

Between 6 AM and 11 AM

[Pollster1]

The best humblebrag of the year came from the Queen of Humble, Hillary Clinton, and her surrogates:

“I was on the way to winning until a combination of Jim Comey’s letter on October 28th and Russian Wikileaks . . .”

and traditionalist attitudes toward women

and white voters afraid of losing White Privilege

and Democrats doing a poor job of controlling the narrative

and a thousand Russian agents working every day

and content farms in Macedonia

and the TV networks keeping Hillary off the air

and the vast right-wing conspiracy

and Infowars

and Google

and Governor Scott Walker

and Steve Bannon

and Nate Silver

and Citizens United

and the DNC being a mess and in poor shape

and bad polling numbers

and Obama winning two terms

and people wanting change

and the New York Times, cable news, and television executives

and “Eight of the top 10 political documentaries on Netflix were screeds against President Obama and me”

and democrats not making the right documentaries

and the Democrat Party and the Republican Party

and concerns that Hillary Clinton was involved with a child sex trafficking operation

and concern about Hillary Clinton being a lizard

and high expectations that Hillary would win

and voter suppression

and the Russians ransacking Hillary’s computer files and strategically leaking the truth

and misogyny

and Gary Johnson and Jill Stein voters

and advocacy press on the right

and Facebook

and Twitter

and old, out-of-touch democrats with a flawed message that alienated young voters

and white nationalists

and hatred of Hillary Clinton at the FBI (how could anyone hate a lovable woman like Hillary?)

and FBI investigation

and email scandal

and black voters not liking Hillary

and fewer than 100,000 deplorable voters spread across a handful of states

and people hating Hillary because she is so professional, so polished, such a wonderful lawyer, so brilliant, so good, so righteous, and so much better than us (yes, that was a quote)

and the lack of energy among Hillary supporters and expectations of Hillary being the inevitable winner, because it was her turn

and Robby Mook selecting the wrong travel stops for Hillary and spending heavily in the wrong states

and Hillary’s campaign team failing to hone her message and get voters to the polls

and Bill Clinton’s appearance of an inappropriate meeting with Attorney General Loretta Lynch

and blatant sexism

and Wikileaks

and the ugly stew of racism

and Hillary’s alleged lack of likability and claimed lack of trustworthiness

and self-hating women

and Evangelical, Catholic, anti-marriage equality, and anti-choice social conservatives

and sinister outside forces

and whitelash

and democrat policies that favor the rich

and failure to talk to working-class white voters

and men

and lower-level FBI agents pressuring their Director (because that’s how professional relationships work)

and Tim Kaine

and white women

and racists

and sexists

and rural voters

and the working class voting against their own interests

and fake news

and supermarket tabloids

and celebrity (The Apprentice)

and white male resentment

and over-shaming Trump supporters

and rejecting Bernie

and Reagan democrats

and backlash against political correctness

. . . but other than those unfair and unexpected setbacks, Hillary was a perfect candidate and should have won.

[dblshot]

Having dinner alone with the President of the United States concerned me, Comey humblebragged.

[Louis Foxwell]

The Extraordinary list, worth archiving. Keep in mind at all times Hillary is the very essence of honesty and humility.

[left that other site]

This was my favorite parable when I was a kid wiggling around on a hard wooden pew: (It shows that humblebragging is nothing new! LOL!)

Luke 18:9-14New International Version (NIV)
The Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector

9 To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everyone else, Jesus told this parable: 10 “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 11 The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. 12 I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.’

13 “But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner.’

14 “I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”
New International Version (NIV)

Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.

[Pollster1]

“Keep in mind at all times Hillary is the very essence of honesty and humility.”

____________________________________________________________

I am the very model of the modern Queen Humility,
I’ve information vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I know the cause of my loss, and I hide scandals historical,
From Email to Whitewater, in order categorical;
I’m very well acquainted too with matters mathematical,
I understand hush payments, both the bribe and suicidical,
About Fort Marcy Park and such I’m teeming with a lot o’ news-—
With many cheerful facts about the deaths of friends who break my rules.

I’m very good at treasonous and conspiracy calculus,
I pay for quick unmasking names of beings republiculous;
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I am the very model of the modern Queen Humility.

I know our mythic history, King FDR’s and Kennedy’s,
I answer hard acrostics, I’ve a pretty taste for paradox,
I quote in ebonics all the crimes of corrupt Barack’s,
With death threats I can floor FBI directors fabulous.
I can tell unquestioned fibs with perjuries and subtle lies,
I know the croaking chorus from the Progs of Mainstream-media,
Then I can hum a fugue of which I’ve testafied afore,
And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense libs adore.

Then I can write a check to Bill in charitable rescue cash,
And BitBleach every detail as I sip my hidden whisky stash;
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I am the very model of the modern Queen Humility.

For my military knowledge, though I’m plucky and adventury,
Has only been brought to question in the protest at Benghazi;
But still in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I am the very model of the modern Queen Humility.

[SFConservative]

Word for the day haiku:

The word humblebrag
was tailor made for Comey.
Lordy, what a creep!

[SoothingDave]

http://triblive.com/local/allegheny/12398109-74/man-who-ate-catfish-in-stanley-cup-celebration-everyone-else-was-doing

[Louis Foxwell]

Today is a day of prose mastery. We are all flabergasted by the trenchant power of these offerings. They cut like a battleax through primrose skulls.

[Pollster1]

Excellent!

[mikrofon]

The MSM continue to portray President Trump as a humblebraggadocious stumblebum, which just serves to confirm that he’s still many steps ahead of them in the long game…

[Texan5]

Done with work for the day-

Hillary tries for humblebrag
In her playbook of excuses-
As she refuses to understand
All the nausea that induces

I would have won if only he
Or again the vast right wing-
Bill backs her up to show us
Neither has learned a thing

Now deep into the blame game
With the conspiracies and all-
Both are still wannabe royals
And Hillary deserved that fall

[tioga]

Along came a tall James Comey
A Clinton stooge and phony
A humblebragging freak
Who liked to leak
With his Democrat homey.