Possible word of the year

[Dan Goncharoff]

Hmmm, Ford was off-panel. Reagan was "Ron Headrest", not human but
human-ish. Clinton was "waffled"; Bush was a Stetson".

DanG


On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> At 9/1/2012 10:24 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> >Remember when Gary Trudeau routinely depicted G. H. Bush as invisible?
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> Doesn't he do that with all POTUS's, or at least as visible as
> something other than human?
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> Joel
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> >On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 10:00 AM, David Barnhart
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> > > eastwooding, verbal. n. {w} Also written Eastwooding.  See the
> quotations
> > > for the meaning.  Nonstandard (used in slang contexts dealing
> especially
> > > with U.S. politics; frequency?)
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > The Smithsonian Institution, with hilarious seriousness, traced the
> > > tradition of politicians' interrogating empty chairs back to "at least
> > > 1924."
> > >
> > > A brand-new word was born: eastwooding, the act of talking to an empty
> > > chair. Twitter, Instagram (in which photos are conversational tender),
> and
> > > Pinterest were furnished with people's photos of furniture, of
> themselves
> > > lecturing, upbraiding, arguing with their sofas, stools, and settees.
> The
> > > hashtag #eastwooding ricocheted to at least 29,000 Twitter accounts,
> > > according to TweetReach. John Timpane, "Eastwood unseats Romney; Chair
> chat
> > > is meme of the moment," The Philadelphia Inquirer (Nexis), Sept. 1,
> 2012, p
> > > A01
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > The Twitter handle "Invisible Obama," which said it was sitting "Stage
> left
> > > of Clint Eastwood," quipped that "The GOP built me." An hour after
> > > Eastwood's speech, it already had 20,000 followers. The move spawned a
> new
> > > trend with people posting photos of themselves pointing at empty chairs
> > > with
> > > the hashtag "eastwooding." Halimah Abdullah, "Eastwood, the empty
> chair and
> > > the speech everyone's talking about," CNN.com (Nexis), Aug. 30, 2012,
> p not
> > > given
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Grammatical shifting (): formed from (Clint )Eastwood (born: 1930).
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