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

[Ben Zimmer]

Mike Pesca suggests "demaeniation" (fr. _maenianum_):

https://twitter.com/pescami/status/428452196460425216

(Or should that be "demaenianation"?)

On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 4:20 PM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
>
> What's the matter with debalconization?...
>
> DanG
>
>
> 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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