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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 11:41 AM Original message |
Is "feigned obtusity" a real term? |
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Toucano (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 11:42 AM Response to Original message |
1. We already know the answers to the real questions. |
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gratuitous (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 11:42 AM Response to Original message |
2. I'm not sure what you mean . . . |
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AngryAmish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 11:43 AM Response to Original message |
3. Borat |
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ogneopasno (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 11:43 AM Response to Original message |
4. This has to have been inspired by Michele "Sexin' It Up Like Palin!" Bachmann, about an hour ago. |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 11:49 AM Response to Reply #4 |
9. They have contunued to fail to acquit themselves well. |
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ogneopasno (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 11:51 AM Response to Reply #9 |
12. That's a good point -- I know that Bachmann will always have liquid stupid coming out of her mouth, |
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lumberjack_jeff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 11:45 AM Response to Original message |
5. Faux moronism? |
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eleny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 11:47 AM Response to Original message |
6. Kabuki |
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Tuesday Afternoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 11:47 AM Response to Original message |
7. Constipation of the brain coupled with diarrhea of the mouth |
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timtom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 11:49 AM Response to Original message |
8. I would use "obtuseness" |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 11:51 AM Response to Reply #8 |
13. I chose the incorrect "obtusity" over the correct "obtuseness" for its capacity to ....... |
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timtom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 03:17 PM Response to Reply #13 |
28. I kinda thought that... |
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Jack Rabbit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 11:50 AM Response to Original message |
10. It is now |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 11:50 AM Response to Original message |
11. Is "obtusity" a more modern way of saying "obtuseness?" |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 11:52 AM Response to Reply #11 |
14. No, it is not modern or correct |
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damntexdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 12:31 PM Response to Reply #14 |
19. Obtusicity. |
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Sal Minella (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 12:53 PM Response to Reply #19 |
21. Gerund: Obtusificating. Adj: Obtusificantory |
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SOS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 12:08 PM Response to Original message |
15. It's a real term |
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Terran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 12:12 PM Response to Original message |
16. "deliberate obtuseness" |
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MinM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 12:21 PM Response to Original message |
17. It's a perfectly cromulent term. |
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Canuckistanian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 01:18 PM Response to Reply #17 |
27. Yes, it embiggens our vocabulosity |
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damntexdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 12:27 PM Response to Original message |
18. I just don't get what you mean. |
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ashling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 12:32 PM Response to Original message |
20. Congratulations, You merit a Humpty Dumpty Award |
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KG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 12:55 PM Response to Original message |
22. congressional hearings = dog and pony show. |
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Fovea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 12:59 PM Response to Original message |
23. Disingenuousness |
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undeterred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 01:00 PM Response to Original message |
24. No, but "feigned obesity" is. |
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Nye Bevan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 01:07 PM Response to Original message |
25. My constituents back home |
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NashVegas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-24-09 01:09 PM Response to Original message |
26. Obfuscation |
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