Possible word of the year

[Joel S. Berson]

At 9/1/2012 10:24 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>Remember when Gary Trudeau routinely depicted G. H. Bush as invisible?

Doesn't he do that with all POTUS's, or at least as visible as
something other than human?

Joel


>JL
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>On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 10:00 AM, David Barnhart
><dbarnhart at highlands.com>wrote:
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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?)
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> >
> > 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
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> > 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
> >
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> >
> > Grammatical shifting (): formed from (Clint )Eastwood (born: 1930).
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