Franken-

Arnold Zwicky zwicky at STANFORD.EDU
Sat Oct 27 02:56:00 UTC 2012


On Oct 26, 2012, at 7:27 PM, "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET> wrote:

> At 10/26/2012 06:13 PM, Arnold Zwicky wrote:
>> Franken- hasn't confined itself to the GM world. Here's an extension
>> (from Quinion's World Wide Words #675 of 1/30/10) to other monstrous things:
>
> And after a close and long-disputed election, it entered the US Senate.

i suppose this has already been done, but if you cobble together an Al Franken from dead senators, you'd get a Frankenfranken.

arnold

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