Thursday, January 21, 2021

Don't Get Distracted by Malarkey

I can't speak for the Administration nor can I say for certain what they will do, but I feel that Joe Biden and I grew up is the same time period, in the same religion and under similar conditions (to some extent) and I think he is not going to deal with a lot of malarkey.

The word malarkey, meaning "insincere or exaggerated talk," originally found favor in Irish-American usage, though its exact origin remains unknown. We can likely thank a cartoonist of Irish descent, Thomas Aloysius Dorgan ("TAD" for short), for popularizing the word.

Now there is a lot of it going around especially on one of our so called cable news channels.  The best way to deal with it is to point it out and ignore it.

The Irish, my ancestors, like two things of note.  Certain alcoholic beverages and spinning a good yarn, not the type you wear.

Now of course they helped build America and have many great qualities but the consumption of a good quaff and applying the Blarney was a popular pub pastime.

At some point it turned into obvious malarkey and it got called out, everyone would laugh, although the spinner might try to keep it going and another quaff was on tap.

Now we have a cable news channel that spews out a lot of malarkey.  Call it out, have a good laugh and move on.



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