FW: Sarah Palin's "refudiate" (blend: refute + repudiate)

[Jonathan Lighter]

Check out Sinclair Lewis's _It Can't Happen Here_ (1935).

Sen. Buzz Windrip of Fort Beulah is elected President as "Savior of the
Forgotten Men." (That'll need some work.) He reads only "the finest in
literature": James Whitcomb Riley, Plato, Hiawatha [sic], Elbert Hubbard.

Linguistic hook: "Mrs. Adelaide Tarr Gimmitch...during the Great War she had
advocated calling our boys in the A.E.F. the 'Unkies.'"

Yessirree Bob!

JL




On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 9:07 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> At 7/18/2010 09:00 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> >And today, over 10,000 Googlits....
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> And those are the people who may elect our next Presidentess.
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> Joel
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