[High Praise! to Springer’s Blog]
Speaking of Springeraz, here’s a bonus link to a little something he whipped up at Nuking Politics
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How about an acronym? GRUBAR: Governmentalese Ratcheted Up Beyond All Recognition.
Or a noun: Grubris.
Or a game: Grubrik’s Cube. (There’s no way to make all the sides same-colored, but the packaging claims you can.)
Well, Obama warned us about being “hoodwinked” and “bamboozled” but failed to mention the “Grubering” he had planned for us.
I like it. However, I would add an umlaut, thusly:
Grüber
Grübered
Grübering
Ich bin ein Grübering! Grübering über alles! Und, you vill like it.
(I need another glass of Grüber.)
Be careful, don’t step in that big, steaming pile of Gruber!
“The receptivity of the masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan.”
―
Adolf HitlerHerr Gruberbut their power of forgetting is enormous.
“I think the short attention span of the American public works to the president’s advantage, here. I think a year from now when the law’s working, it will be long forgotten,”
Herr Gruber
Grübering = Hitlering
@4 Jimmy…couldn’t make an umlaut with that font, so I fixed it the hard way (secret process, involves a time machine and some duct tape)…anyway thanks, go check the Bacon Page, you’re now on the Eternall Wall…
@9 springer: You have truly immortalized me on your Eternal Wall. I’m not sure what I did to deserve it, but I’ll take it!
!0 jimmy….earlier I had fumbled around with the umlaut thing on that piece, then I finally gave up when I found out the font isn’t what they call an “accented font”….your comment motivated me to take another look at it. What I ended up doing was making up two little dots in ComicLife and pasting them where they needed to be….pretty slick. All I needed was a little push. Thanks
Fraud (I got Grubered at the used car lot)
Dismay (Ah, Gruber it)
Trouble (I guess I’m really Grubered now)
Aggression (Don’t Gruber with me buddy)
Difficulty (I don’t understand this Grubering question)
Inquiry (Who the Gruber was that?)
Dissatisfaction (I don’t like what the Gruber is going on here)
Incompetence (He’s a Gruberoff)
Dismissal (Why don’t you go outside and play hide and go Gruber yourself?)
Greetings (How the Gruber are ya?)
Confusion (What the Gruber….?)
Despair (Grubered again…)
Pleasure (I Grubering couldn’t be happier)
Disorientation (Where the Gruber are we?)
Disbelief (UNGRUBERINGBELIEVABLE!)
Denial (I didn’t Grubering do it)
Perplexity (I know Gruber all about it)
Apathy (Who really gives a Gruber, anyhow?)
Suspicion (Who the Gruber are you?)
Panic (Let’s get the Gruber out of here)
Directions (Gruber off)
Disbelief (How the Gruber did you do that?)
It can be used in an anatomical description (He’s a Grubering a**hole)
It can be used to tell time (It’s five Grubering thirty)
It can be used in business (How did I wind up with this Grubering job?)
It can be maternal (MotherGruber)
It has also been used by many notable people throughout history:
What the Gruber was that?
(Mayor of Hiroshima)
Where did all these Grubering Indians come from?
(General Custer)
That’s not a real Grubering gun.
(John Lennon)
Who’s gonna Grubering find out?
(Richard Nixon)
Heads are going to Grubering roll.
(Anne Boleyn)
Let the Grubering woman drive.
(Commander of Space Shuttle Challenger)
What Grubering map?
(Mark Thatcher)
Any Grubering idiot could understand that.
(Albert Einstein)
It does so Grubering look like her!
(Picasso)
How the Gruber did you work that out?
(Pythagoras)
You want *what* on the Grubering ceiling?
(Michaelangelo)
Gruber a duck.
(Walt Disney)
I’m sure you can think of many more examples.
With all of these multipurpose applications, how can anyone be offended when you use the word?
We say, use this unique, flexible word more often in your daily speech. It will identify the quality of your character immediately. Say it loudly and PROUDLY.
GRUBER YOU!
@12 zzyzx – ya know, that “r” at the end makes it racist.
Might be safer to say “gruba”
What the Gruba? Well then…I guess I’m just a Grubaing racist.