green weenie

[Jonathan Lighter]

One of CNN's high-paid journalists commented this morning that he had "no
idea" of what Simpson meant by "the green weenie."

Clever libertarian pundit Nick Gillespie is likewise dumbstruck at
http://reason.com/blog/2011/02/07/alan-simpson-on-cutting-defens:

"Who the hell knows what a 'green weenie' is (then again, he served with
disgraced former Sen. Bob Packwood [R-Or.], so maybe it's a generational
thing)?"


JL

On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 8:53 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 8:19 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> asked:
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> > is "Ozzie" the only PC spelling now?
>
> Well, it's certainly closer to the usual pronunciation that I've heard
> than "Aussie" is. I've had to bite  my tongue thousands of times to
> keep from "correcting" the pronunciation of people both Yank and
> Aussie whose knowledge of Strine was superior to mine. I didn't want
> to be like the Dutch woman who once annoyedly asked me, "Don't you
> understand your own language?"
>
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