green weenie

[Laurence Horn]

At 11:27 AM -0500 2/7/11, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>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:
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>"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)?"
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>
>JL

Well, people in Pittsburgh of a certain age might know what a green
weenie (sometimes) is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Weenie

LH

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>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?
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>>  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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