pinkwashing

[Jonathan Lighter]

Gay Republican on Obama's statement last week: "This was a pinkwashing of
the President's economic record."

Packs a lot of semantics into one word, doesn't it?

JL

On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 9:08 PM, Eric Nielsen <ericbarnak at gmail.com> wrote:

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> I really like this one. I can picture the offender having to squeeze on a
> rubber headpiece--little curlicue and all--resembling a soft ice cream cone
> and sit out the game on the bench.
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> Eric
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> On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu
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> > Neither item strikes me as having the elegance of "(to be) =
> > dairy-queened".
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> > LH
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