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| 2009-07-20 |
| The Anchoress ...The other day, I got it in my head that we don’t hear the word “fink” anymore. It used to be a big word, but it’s fallen into disuse. On Twitter, I joked that it was time for us to reclaim the word “fink,” and then tried it out a few times. I called another blogger a fink, and he took it in the spirit it was offered, as a joke. Then someone else reminded me of The Wizard of Id cartoons, and the line used by the commoners, from time to time, shouted out from the crowd: “The King is a Fink!” In the cartoon, the fink-shouter was usually hidden – there would be a voice in the crowd, or a cloaked figure on a horse, passing the castle would let fly with it: “The King is a Fink.” Anonymity was preferred because the King was a short despot (once upon a time, all despots were short, but that has changed) who could not be trusted to bear patiently and magnanimously with free speech. I know politicians are fair game, and if they can’t roll with punches, they oughtn’t pursue office, but I’ve never liked name-calling. On this blog, I have always made it my rule not to use ugly nicknames about presidents or ex-presidents; it’s a matter of respect for the office, and civil discourse. So, by my lights, anyway, a king may be a fink, but not a president. A president, after all, must answer to his electorate. That’s true, isn’t it, that a king rules, while a president leads? That a king demands service, while a president serves? Hmmmmmm. Feels like lines are blurring, doesn’t it?... ...A president who can arbitrarily decide to take taxpayer money by the greedy mittsful, without at least giving them a receipt – why, that’s a president who is barely acting like the leader of a republic at all. That’s a president who is acting more and more like…well…kinda like king. And as we all know, “The King is a Fink.” |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #2 Mel Brooks version: Count De Monet - Sir, the peasants are revolting! King Louis - You said it. They stink on ice. |
| Posted by: DMFD 2009-07-20 19:46 |
| #1 My favorite "Wizard of Id: repartee: Rodney: "Sire, the natives are revolting!" King: "So what else is new..." |
| Posted by: borgboy 2009-07-20 14:18 |