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Once again, I'm ahead of the media curve.
![]() Just as soon as President Barack Obama uttered the words Thursday afternoon, the reaction was nearly universal. On Twitter, The Hill's Sam Youngman asked: "WTF does wee-weed up mean and how do you spell it?" Real Clear Politics' Mike Memoli: "I don't know what that means." The Associated Press' Phil Elliott: "Did the president just say Washington gets all "wee-wee-ed up" in August? Really?" FOX News' Greta van Susteren would later say, "I don't know what that means." What had happened? During Obama's remarks at a national health care forum, Obama said: "There's something about August going into September where everybody in Washington gets all wee-weed up. I don't know what it is. But that's what happens." Next up were the jokes. "When will birthers start saying that 'wee-weed up' is an old Kenyan Muslim saying?" wrote The Hill's Youngman on Twitter. "Wondering if media elite latte consumption correlates to 'wee-weed up' factor?" tweeted Bloomberg's Lizzie O'Leary. "So am I wee-weed up? I thought it was just allergies." The Weekly Standard's Mary Katharine Ham chimed in: "My little brothers often weeweed up the pool in August." And: "Yes, wee-wee, the sneakiest fear-monger. Tinkle, the silent consensus-killer." AP's Elliott: "He's probably talking about urologists, who are famous for taking excessive urine samples for extra profit. So 'wee-wee-ed up.'" Michelle Malkin blogged: "Is this some Chicago phrase I don't know about?" Before you knew it, the term "wee weed" was a trending topic on Twitter, it had it's own Twitter handle (@weeweed) and its own domain name — www.weeweed.com. Is this Obama-ism soon to become trendy enough to warrant an entry in Webster's dictionary? Dictionary.com doesn't have an entry specifically for "wee-weed" but, for "wee wee", the online dictionary says that, in noun form, "wee wee" means "urine" and, as a verb, it means "to urinate." But, clearly, Obama couldn't have been making potty jokes about health care, right? After the original confusion and chuckles over "wee-weed" had passed, a consensus emerged that Obama meant the word to mean something along the lines of "riled up." CNN's Ed Henry and Lou Dobbs later discussed the issue on air: Dobbs: "What is this expression? I never heard it before. None of our folks here have heard of it before. What is 'wee weed up' as the president said?" Henry: "I had a sneaking suspicion you might ask me that. And I hate not to have an answer for you. But I suspect — this is an educated guess —" Dobbs: "No, no, no. Wait a minute. Do you know or do you not?" Henry: "I don't know but I think based on my reporting abilities, I will suggest that he's suggesting that people are a little agitated, if you will, a little over-excited right now." http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0809/26328.html |
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Welcome to 2006, Oerdin. ![]() BTW: In the comedy team of Abbott and Costello, Abbott not only got first billing but he received 60% of their pay. Vaudevillians understood how important a good straight man is. Watch the girl on the left. She does an awesome job and is incredibly talented! No really, there is a second girl in the vid. Just move your eyes to the left. To the left! No, that's the one on the right. Look to the left! |
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