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    #46
    Originally posted by Qqmike View Post
    I just bought 2 cans of Vienna Sausages at Wal-Mart this morning, and I'm not sure why!
    Classic example of priming! You wandered down the aisle possibly inadvertently. Your gaze landed on the can of pink weenies, and you were overwhelmed with the urge to purchase some. In the back of your mind you couldn't exactly suss the reason for the impulse, but yet to not follow through would seem wrong, somehow.

    May as well eat the little suckers now. If you can stand the sound they make when the go "splooshpt" out of the can. Ick.
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      #47
      I was/am certainly primed for SOMETHING. In principle, that makes sense; in practice, I'd like to know a better instantiation.

      As for your post, S-R, I have recently learned from another member here that what you have said and how you said it qualifies you for bloviating.

      How about the little weenies with smashed potatoes ... ?
      An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. Charles Bukowski
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        #48
        Someone should come up with Vienna Buns, then you could have Vienna Sliders.
        Windows no longer obstructs my view.
        Using Kubuntu Linux since March 23, 2007.
        "It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data." - Sherlock Holmes​
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          #49
          Originally posted by Qqmike View Post
          As for your post, S-R, I have recently learned from another member here that what you have said and how you said it qualifies you for bloviating.
          No.......way............

          I......... am not .............. at all..............

          GUILTY.................

          ......of THAT.............!
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            #50
            LOL!
            I'll bet Woodsmoke heard the word "bloviate" for the first time the say way I did, listening to one of Bill Riley's opinion pieces! BTW, Steve, are you related somhow?
            "A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
            – John F. Kennedy, February 26, 1962.
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              #51
              What's the clue?

              To bloviate is to talk, but not just to chat. To bloviate means to go on and on and on and on, usually in a pompous way.
              Can you hear the blow in the word bloviate? That's a clue that someone bloviating is blowing some serious hot air. When someone bloviates, he is speaking in an empty, pretentious, full-of-himself manner. This word is often associated with politicians, who probably invented bloviating. When someone is talking a lot and saying a little, they're bloviating.
              http://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/bloviate
              An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. Charles Bukowski
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                #52
                Originally posted by GreyGeek View Post
                ...Bill Riley's opinion pieces! BTW, Steve, are you related somhow?
                Egads, perish the thought! You see, the big difference between him and me is that he's always wrong.

                "Bloviate" is one of my favorite words. It's only the thing that sabbath gasbags are actually any good at.
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