Waiting until your wife leaves the room and fondling the Mrs. Butterworth’s bottle.
Is there a Mr. Butterworth bottle? Because that seems more likely.
Who is Chamberlain?
There was, but complaints of the mustache tickling consumers led to it being discontinued.
He once scored 100 points in an NBA game.
This reminded me of the wonderful Christopher Moore phrase “Heinous fuckery most foul”.
We could make it “Heinous trumpery most foul”.
I would bet every single asset that I own, that less than 10% of everyone in America under the age of 60 knows what Quisling means. If that. I’m 32 and I only know what it means because I’ve always read a lot. I guarantee you that if I threw this word into a conversation with all but a tiny handful of my friends, they would have no idea what I was talking about. I don’t expect it to have much longevity as a descriptor, at least not in the United States or Canada.
they’d probably think you were talking about this
or this:
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Quaker-Quisp-Crunchy-Corn-Breakfast-Cereal-8-5-oz-Box/38441458
Heck, I’m 60, consider myself well-read, and the only time I recall coming across ‘Quisling’ was in a sci-fi book (either some Heinlein or Doc Smith Lensman/Skylark). I actually had to look it up because it was confusing in context - someone was referred to as a “damn quisling” (not sure if expletive has there), obviously an insult but couldn’t figure out why.
Well, people know who Benedict Arnold was, and it still is synonymous with “traitor” after all these centuries. No reason “Donald Trump” can’t become the new go-to word.
I’m not tying it to recognition though. Quisling is the word, even if people have to look it up at the time. It is an example of a word that is coined after a person, because of uniquely corrupt behavior with terrible consequences, and enters usage for the dictionary.
Quisling is a word that gets used commonly, in journalism, and will be used more and more now.
It’s used in the song Patriot Game, by Brendan Behan, performed by the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem.
If you google I think you will find it got used this week too. These things have a tendency to multiply.
My point is it is a real, useful word. I don’t know about the penetration it has gotten.
My first encounter with the word “quisling” was in a description of cartoon animal mascots being used to sell meat products (like the Piggly Wiggly pig wielding a cleaver).
Let’s see…“I turned my back for five minutes, and the next thing I knew he was in the corner pencing the label on the Mr. Clean bottle.”
With how massive Trump’s ego is, I hope that when everyone who lived the Trump presidency is dead and buried, people just starting forgetting who is. Cause frankly, that’s what Donald Trump deserve the most: to be completely forgotten.
Just on the off chance that China Guy was serious, “Chamberlain” would be Neville Chamberlain, prime minister of the UK before Churchill, who “secured peace in our time” with his policy of letting Hitler take whatever he wanted.
I think it will be a verb “to Trump” and will mean bald-faced lying when all concerned clearly know that you are doing so.
Mother to child: “Stop Trumping! We can all see the icing around your mouth, YOU ate the last cupcake!”
Friend on street corner: “Dude, you’re Trumping! Ain’t nobody gonna believe you got with that girl.”
Crayola should just label one of their orange crayons “Trump”. That seems sufficient on several levels.
However, modern historians have largely vindicated Chamberlain as buying time as the UK was in no way prepared for a war. In the the time it started stocking perspex, aluminium etc that would be needed in the eventual war. And when it did come he was a staunch and vital supporter of Churchill.
(And as a total aside I wonder if Stalin will ever be seen as doing the same thing for the USSR.)
Anyway, back to Trump.
Well trump has distinguished himself in a number of superlatives that jump out at you.
Corruption, ignorance, and bigotry have been seen before. But he is having good success in gaslighting a whole country at least effectively enough (30%?) to keep on doing it for now. He took over a major political party and is riding them into the ground.
He seems to be betraying the country in real time while we watch. This is unique.
But he is dragging the Republicans with him, and they are going. He is bleaching the truth out of public life. You can’t listen to anybody in public the same way anymore after this last 2 years.
What did Republicanism and conservatism before trump mean? Can it mean that now? As far as I know republicanism, is trumpism, is conservatism. Can they extract themselves from each other now?
Because the only character trait they have left is that they hate liberalism, and at this point they hate it more than they hate any other thing in the world including communism, and fascism. They do not support the commons, the population, or the workings of the goverment that we share.
Trump is a flowering of this.
I was thinking along the same lines as this. However, a slightly different meaning. I don’t know if there is another, real, word for this phenomenon:
- When one accuses someone else of doing some bad thing, but are themselves doing that very thing.
Example: “Crooked Hillary” would become the most ironic term of all time.