Is that anything like a bellwether?
Okay, I give up, what the hell is "bell weather"? Proves I'm way too dumb to write for Time Magazine.
1. Someone who assumes leadership of a movement or activity
2. Anything that indicates future trends.
Comes from bell + wether, originally a sheep with a bell around its neck, that led a flock.
(I didn’t know, either ;’}
Okay, I give up, what the hell is “bell weather”? Proves I’m way too dumb to write for Time Magazine.
A bellwether is any entity in a given arena that serves to create or influence trends or to presage future happenings. The term is derived from the Middle English bellewether and refers to the practice of placing a bell around the neck of a castrated ram (a wether) in order that this animal might lead its flock of sheep.
In sociology, the term is applied in the active sense to a person or group of people who tend to create, influence or set trends.
In politics, the term is more often applied in the passive sense to describe a geographic region where political tendencies match in microcosm those of a wider area, such that the result of an election in the former region might predict the eventual result in the latter.
Could be that the silly spell check programs would not have flagged that.
I think they meant it was a Democrat Bedwetter dinner.
“Okay, I give up, what the hell is “bell weather”? Proves I’m way too dumb to write for Time Magazine.”
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Bell weather is a sort of gloomy, nightmarish, fog. It is said to be the type of weather in which the famous Bell witch is most likely to appear to unwary voters. The cackle of the Bell witch is reputed to be the most frightening sound ever perceived by a sane person. Of course prolonged exposure may render them no longer sane. The history of the Bell witch is interesting, having first been documented in Tennessee in the early nineteenth century the witch is said to have reappeared in Park Ridge, Illinois soon after World War Two. Sightings were later reported on the Wellesley college campus and still later on the Yale Law campus. Strangely, the witch was later reported to be haunting the area around Little Rock, Arkansas and is credited by some with causing many strange deaths in the area. The next major cluster of Bell witch sightings occurred around the nation’s capital during the years following nineteen ninety two. During this period other strange deaths were reported. During the twenty first century there have been reports of strange cackling around Washington, DC as well as in New York state around Chappequa. Some say the Bell witch is just another disguise used by the master of deceit himself, we will probably never know for certain.