WOT ...? ("Congressional Balcony"?)

[Jonathan Lighter]

More disturbing is Grimm's peculiar "I'll break you in half like a boy!"

What the hell does that mean?

JL


On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 4:44 PM, Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Mike Pesca suggests "demaeniation" (fr. _maenianum_):
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> https://twitter.com/pescami/status/428452196460425216
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> (Or should that be "demaenianation"?)
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> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 4:20 PM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
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> > What's the matter with debalconization?...
> >
> > DanG
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> > On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 4:05 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > Republican NY Representative Michael Grimm's
> > > angry interruption, captured on camera, of a
> > > reporter's attempt to ask a question about
> > > alleged fundraising violations by a supporter of his 2010 campaign:
> > >
> > > [Excerpt from
> > >
> > >
> http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/01/29/268150418/video-congressma=
> > n-threatens-to-throw-reporter-off-balcony
> > > ]
> > > "I'm not speaking about anything's that off-topic
> > > =AD this is only about the president," Grimm told Scotto before
> walking a=
> > way.
> > >
> > > Then, while the camera was still recording, Grimm returned to say:
> > >
> > > "Let me be clear to you: You ever do that to me
> > > again, I'll throw you off this f- - - - -g balcony."
> > > [End excerpt]
> > >
> > > My proposal for WOTCB -- "debalustration".  I see
> > > I'm slightly too late for a coinage, it's already on the Web --
> > >
> > > "Nick Rizzo: Watch: New York's sketchiest
> > > congressman Michael Grimm threatens to debalustrate NY1's Michael
> Scotto"
> > >
> > > Via GWeb.  Allegedly at
> > >
> http://us.trending-topic.com/New+Orleans/topics/%22State+of+the+Union%22/=
> > ,
> > > but I don't find the word on that page.
> > >
> > >
> > > Or for a Gallic influence, "deterrassiation".
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