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Or ...Nuclar weapons to paraphase a "Bushism"
Oh! I always thought it was Nuc i lar. 
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I knew it was a bastardization of Nuclear. Coulda been Nucilar
"Proud to be an Infidel" ... "100% pure American Jingoist"
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I do not know enough about American local politics to participate in a knowledgeable fashion
Hogwash!! It's very simple, and sadly, very international. Our politicians continue doing things that irritate and befuddle us, and we gripe about that. Now, sure it is localized by us inserting our specifically local names, "Bush", "Gore",etc..., but applies and seems to work equally well if you just change the names to "Karamanlis", "Blair", or "Merkel". See, political agitation and disgust are very generic, and transcend all borders. SO, next time we are having a brew-ha-ha about Bush, and our local issues, just jump in as if you are talking about your government and problems with "quasi-Macedonians" sneaking across the border or whatever, no one will even know the difference, and then, without even having to talk to another Greek, you can vent all of your frustrations, and have your assertions denounced as if you were an American, and still feel like you've been sitting at the local pub talking to some friends from right down the street from you. Besides, it might liven things up if you throw in a few Greek curse-words, or deragatory names!!
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Hogwash!!
Reckon where that phrase came from.... not trying to derail the thread now... just curious cause we never washed our hog..
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i think it helps us all have a clearer understanding of the world and the people in it.
ENJOY!!!!! NEWT!!!!!
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i think it helps us all have a clearer understanding of the world and the people in it.
washing hogs??..  
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Roses are red
Voilets are blue
I like peanut butter
Do you skate
Dont ask it just poped into my head and I had to type it....didn't mean to hijack this hijacked-hijacked-hijacked thread...
I now return you to your regularly scheduled Moody Blues-Bush-Jaffa cakes-AK-47-Hog washing thread
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Now that's funny.. 
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Hogwash!!
Reckon where that phrase came from.... not trying to derail the thread now... just curious cause we never washed our hog..
The word "hogwash" comes from an honorable venue, the barnyard. "Hogwash" in the farming sense is garbage, kitchen waste, or sometimes the leftover refuse of a brewery, used as slop or swill for the feeding of swine. The "wash" in "hogwash" is derived from the noun "wash," which has many senses, including "waste water, discharged after use in washing" (as in rinsing out a pot, for instance), and "hogwash" in the literal feed-the-piggies sense is indeed often largely liquid. "Hogwash" first appeared in English in the barnyard sense around 1440, and by 1712 was being used as a synonym for cheap liquor or any other worthless thing, including bad writing. By the late 1800s, "hogwash" was being used among journalists themselves to describe worthless writing in newspapers, and ever since "hogwash" has been used to mean any sort of intellectually fraudulent argument or specious proclamation.
"Never underestimate the power of human stupidity" - Robert Heinlein
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Okay!
"Some" people around here think that when Dwight(don't cha just HATE it when some jerk refers to himself in the "third-person", huh?!) blows a fuse about a certain Texan who's current address is 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, and that this said BA.com member's occassionally vituperate demeanor causes SUCH uproar as to initiate a "wringing of the hands" around here.
BUT....just LOOK at what that California based "know-it-all" has DONE to initiate a widespread dissemination of information on THIS thread ALONE!!!(okay, I admit it!...I recieved a "little help" from Kevin and Larry on those "others threads")
Why, we've learned MANY, MANY things here!
Not to lump people together needlessly BUT....
Bogie, Fryguy, and Gina it seems like their information compartmentalized.-"This IS a motorcycle website, Sir!"(they DO have a point after all)
Greg, Kevin, JB, the ever diplomatic Bedouin, AND your oft very UNdiplomatic author here(there's that infuriating third-person crap again...sorry), seem to relish the adrenalin rush this stuff brings to the table.(I think it DOES add a little "spice" around here, don't cha think?)
Now, over in the corner, sits our two brit ex-pats. Mark(Arsenalfan), who STILL, for some reason thinks that a game, where one is denied the use of their hands during participation, is "facinating" for some reason, is being ignored by Siggy, our resident English lexicographer as he's thumbing through his thesaurus.
AND, don't look now but Benny and Chy are just laughin' their
heads off at ALL of us Bozos, while FriarJohn and Phil are popping one aspirin after another in their efforts to disway those headaches that seem to come their way, every once in a while.(I wonder WANT could be causin' 'em, huh?!)
So, in closing I say...if one remains OBSERVANT in ANY environment(such as this LOUNGE, as we come to know and love it), one can learn a veritable plethora of "things" about others AND themselves if LEFT to their own devices.
Cheers,
Dwight
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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I do not know enough about American local politics to participate in a knowledgeable fashion
Hogwash!! It's very simple, and sadly, very international. ... See, political agitation and disgust are very generic, and transcend all borders. SO, next time we are having a brew-ha-ha about Bush, and our local issues, just jump in as if you are talking about your government and problems ... Besides, it might liven things up if you throw in a few Greek curse-words, or deragatory names!!
LOL!!!
Greg,
If only it were that easy.
Our issues and political BS differ from yours in as much as that we have overcome certain aspects that you guys still have to go through.
Our citizens have by far a much lower tolerance level than the people in the US.
Some of the rhetoric I hear in the US wouldn't last a day here and would be thrown out immediately. We may still, perhaps, have the same level still in the smaller villages.
As an example I offer the fear/security factor used by your leadership.
We had similar tactics here for decades (e.g. the "threat from the East", namely Turkey) until they were discontinued around 10 years ago, following public "revolt".
Another example would be that, for the most part, illegal aliens have been made to contribute to the social security system in order to maintain their "green" card.
Our politicians here are under a constant microscope which leaves them little room for too much BS. It also keeps them on their toes resulting in them putting into practice long overdue reforms etc.
An example you will identify with is the social security and pension issues you guys are expecting to erupt in the next decades.
Well, we have identical problems and are are addressing (in practice) these issues NOW, before it's too late.
Cronyism is also kept to a minimum here too as the people got fed up with it in the past.
So, (without me wishing to paint a perfect picture, far from it, we still have many other outstanding items on our agenda) the issues and subsequent BS here are slightly more matured/advanced (nowadays) and my attempt to apply them in conversations regarding local US politics (using your otherwise agreeable and simple formula) on this board would make me look ... further away from you than I actually am.
P.S. As I mentioned nearly a couple of years ago, politicians still irritate me.
So, nothing has changed ... I am still an "anarchist" (albeit an armchair one) at heart.
P.P.S. I would be happy to teach you Greek curse-words, for starters, the equivalent to "Hogwash" is MA-LA-KI-ES. It's only fair since I have picked up so many English words on these forums. 
Bedouin.
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Well I did learn where the term hogwash came from....
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Well I did learn where the term hogwash came from....
Yeah, and now you know how to say it in Greek too!! Who says the Internet isn't educational?!
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Whats that? time to detail the Harley
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"Lighten up, Francis."
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I'd make a comment about that Steve but I'm already in trouble in the moderators lounge.
Dammit, Chy, they weren't supposed to know about that. Now you're REALLY in trouble...
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