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Torie, I also enjoyed the Saturday Night Live skit the other night but was thrown off by the word flurge to describe Hillary Clinton. I assume I'm not the only one. A piece in the Chicago Tribune reprinted a transcript from the skit with "flurge" in brackets. To me, that means they aren't exactly sure how to spell it, either. So, after coming up with a few alternate spellings and looking them up in Urbandictionary.com, here's what I came up with:
Flerg: 1.) The state of a man's penis when it is not erect.
2.) The foreskin of a man's penis.
Flurg: An unknown place, that is hard or unknown to define.
Flurge: A cross between flush and purge.
I also found a definition that drew a comparison between MILF (Mom I'd Like To F***) and FLIRGE (First Lady I'd Rather Get Elected).
Yet another definition comes directly from an alleged lesbian relationship between Huma Abedin and Clinton. FLIRG equals First Lady Is Really Gay.
While Sarah Palin is a sexy, beautiful hockey mom, Clinton is a gay, boner-shrinking First Lady. Interesting.
(Still image from NBC's Saturday Night Live season premiere, September 13 on NBC. Photo by Dana Edelson)
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As Melinda laments, people don't seem to care so much about experienced or informed in their candidates. Many who would consider refueling in Ireland a visit to Europe also believe Gov. Palin has sufficient international policy knowledge to be half the presidential ticket. That the untraveled VP nominee might soon need to rebuke both Putin and Saakashvili or stare down whomever inherits Kim Jong Il's nuclear stock pile evidentially has no more significance to many voters than if those responsibilities were challenges on Celebrity Apprentice. As long as the winner is smarter than a 5th-grader, Americans seem willing to be satisfied with the result. The American Idolization of democracy has apparently taken hold. But perhaps the distortions and tricky framing of the GOP campaign that lately resemble creative editing of reality TV writing are even more Machiavellian than they seem. I wonder if Karl Rove is secretly advising McCain to go "too far" in order to force Obama to go negative. (See, he can be as callow and politically manipulative as everyone else!) If so, personally, I'd like to see a daisy ad scare the voters back into reality.
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I've enjoyed exactly two Saturday Night Live skits in recent years. No. 1: the inspired "bitch is the new black" Weekend Update from way back, during the primary season. No. 2: This weekend's opening sketch, with Tina Fey as an oblivious Sarah Palin (of course) and Amy Poehler as a shocked-and-appalled Hillary Clinton. Together, they tackle sexism in the media. I've never been a fan of Hillary, but for a moment there, my heart broke for her. Watch here.
This sketch just might make up for the blahness of Fey and Poehler's Baby Mama.
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