Saturday, August 06, 2005

Weasle-sucked words

for those of you wondering what a weasle-sucked words are, let me explain the metaphor. Weasles, when they come across an untended birds nest, have been known to just poke a hole in the egg and suck out the insides, then leave the shell. So when the mother returns there still appears to be a nest full of eggs. So a weasle sucked word would be a word or phrase that appears at first to have meaning, but when you look alittle closer, you learn that it is just a shell of communication. Some examples would be "Charismatic" "Right-wing" and the phrase "support our Troops." A weasle-sucked word is in need of another modifier to have any significant communicative power.

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