Lexicon of Politics: Day 14
Remember, we need to stay up on the liberals' vocabulary too. Quoted in the Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang
granfalloon n. [coined by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (a true-blue lib)]
any large, amorphous organization without real identity.
1960 K. Vonnegut Jr. Cat's Cradle 91:
A seeming team that was meaningless in terms of the ways God gets things done, a textbook example of what Bokonon calls a granfalloon. Other examples of granfalloons are the Communist party...the International Order of Odd Fellows--and any nation, anytime, anywhere.
granfalloon n. [coined by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (a true-blue lib)]
any large, amorphous organization without real identity.
1960 K. Vonnegut Jr. Cat's Cradle 91:
A seeming team that was meaningless in terms of the ways God gets things done, a textbook example of what Bokonon calls a granfalloon. Other examples of granfalloons are the Communist party...the International Order of Odd Fellows--and any nation, anytime, anywhere.
posted by Boz at 6:21 AM
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