{"id":42501,"date":"2014-06-10T18:28:16","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T00:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/10\/furshlugginer.html"},"modified":"2014-06-11T23:10:23","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T05:10:23","slug":"furshlugginer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/10\/furshlugginer.html","title":{"rendered":"Furshlugginer"},"content":{"rendered":"
The other day I happened to use this word chatting\u00a0with +<\/span>Kay Hill<\/a><\/span>, and she rightfully asked me what the heck I was talking about. \u00a0My recollections of the word (defined under the link below) were from early Marvel comics — Ben Grimm would talk about "Yeah, that's right, leave me to take on\u00a0the whole furshlugginer robot army," or the credits box would note "Artie Simek lettered the whole furshlugginer thing," etc.<\/p>\n

Upon consideration, I decide (rightly) that it was a Yiddish term (though I had the Anglicization wrong), but I was surprised to find out that it was actually popularized by the old Mad<\/i> magazine crowd (along with the ever-lovin' Potrzebie [https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Potrzebie]<\/a>).\ufeff<\/div>\n

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furshlugginer – Wiktionary<\/a>
\n English[edit]. Etymology[edit]. From the Yiddish, one of several words Anglicized and popularized by the original writers of MAD Magazine. The word comes from shlogn (“to hit”) with the prefix far- which often indicates the one so described is taking on the quality named.\n <\/p>\n

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The other day I happened to use this word chatting\u00a0with +Kay Hill, and she rightfully asked me what the heck I was talking about. \u00a0My recollections of the word (defined under the link below) were from early Marvel comics — Ben Grimm would talk about "Yeah, that's right, leave me to take on\u00a0the whole furshlugginer … Continue reading “Furshlugginer”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,24],"tags":[586],"class_list":["post-42501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-writing-and-language","tag-pluspost"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11907,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/01\/03\/the_timer_is_running_on_f.html","url_meta":{"origin":42501,"position":0},"title":"The timer is running on Faerie","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 3-Jan-08 3:06pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Yesterday was Tech Support Day at the Hills.\u00a0 I went over to my folks' house around 9 and spent the day optimizing and scanning and tweaking and prodding their PC...","rel":"","context":"In "Food & Drink"","block_context":{"text":"Food & Drink","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/food-drink"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":14637,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/04\/27\/unblogged-bits-for-monday-27-april-2009.html","url_meta":{"origin":42501,"position":1},"title":"Unblogged Bits for Monday, 27 April 2009","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 27-Apr-09 6:00pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries .... 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