friviledge : Brillig portmanteau

[mark worden]

Quick take by blogger [James Lileks, lilkeks.com]:
[quote]
And here is the most beautiful moment of this grim day. The [beeb - aka BBC]
announcer flubs a word, and in doing so she birthed a term of surpassing
perfection. She was talking about the Holeywud ectors, their deseyah not to
seem out of sync with the mood of the times. Two words must have appeared in
her brain simultaneously: frivolity and privileged. And so she said of the
actors who declined to appear:

"They fear the ceremony will appear friviledge."

Was there ever there was a better description of the lives of the Oscar
celebrants, and our betters in the entertainment word? Friviledge.
http://www.lileks.com/bleats/archive/03/0303/032403.html
[unquote][sic all mispellings copied as is from blog]


Quickly picked up by Glenn Reynolds [instapundit.com], who asks, "Will the
Dixie Chicks become the symbols of friviledge for the decade?"

Is is frivolous to suggest that bloggers Likeks & Reynolds may also be
counted among the friveleged?


Quark out (buying a Dixie Chicks CD)
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