Neologisms involving the names of presidents and presidential nominees provide an endless source of weak amusement. Barack Obama’s name seems to offer more opportunities for wordplay than most. It ain’t even the general election yet (at least not quite), and already we’ve been subjected to Obamamania and Obamanation. Slate’s Mickey Kaus now provides us with Obamagoguery.
Obamism doesn’t seem to have caught on yet, although it’s been around for a while.
Further updates and inventions sure to follow. (Any suggestions? Clean ones?)
P.S.—You can do, and some have done, this kind of thing with slogans, too: Taranto has two in one day today: The Audacity of Trope, and The Audacity of Hype.
Coming soon: The Paucity of Hope, The Audacity of Dope, The Veracity of ‘Nope’. . . . This could go on for a while.
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Oil roil (Biodiesel from Weasels).
(apologies to Macbeth)
ALL. Double, double oil and trouble;
10% ethanol burn, and tank of gas
bubble.
WITCH. Cool it with a baboon’s blood,
Then the charm is firm and good.
(Anyone got a baboon ? I need to fillup
the tank.)
ALL. Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and caldron bubble.
2 WITCH. Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the caldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt, and toe of frog,
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
Adder’s fork, and blind-worm’s sting,
Lizard’s leg, and owlet’s wing,—
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
Garbo was a clever touch P.O.P. salutes you!
Obamajammamamma. WHAMMA-JAMMA!!! Lemme hear ya Dickey!FWooOWWWW DUNK! FohWOOOOOOOOOOWWW DUNK!!!
From: J. Geils Band “Live” (1973)
The Politics of Personality!
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