Vienna Sausages

[MoonRise]

Bloviate is certainly a word you might understand. I had to look it up.

Yeah, I had to look that one up too.

Anyway, talking of Hot Dogs, I've found these to be quite good and they also go well cut up in spaghetti.

http://i.walmartimages.com/i/p/00/04...83_500X500.jpg

[SteveRiley]

I just bought 2 cans of Vienna Sausages at Wal-Mart this morning, and I'm not sure why!

Classic example of priming! You wandered down the aisle possibly inadvertently. Your gaze landed on the can of pink weenies, and you were overwhelmed with the urge to purchase some. In the back of your mind you couldn't exactly suss the reason for the impulse, but yet to not follow through would seem wrong, somehow.

May as well eat the little suckers now. If you can stand the sound they make when the go "splooshpt" out of the can. Ick.

[Qqmike]

I was/am certainly primed for SOMETHING. In principle, that makes sense; in practice, I'd like to know a better instantiation.

As for your post, S-R, I have recently learned from another member here that what you have said and how you said it qualifies you for bloviating.

How about the little weenies with smashed potatoes ... ?

[Snowhog]

Someone should come up with Vienna Buns, then you could have Vienna Sliders.

[SteveRiley]

As for your post, S-R, I have recently learned from another member here that what you have said and how you said it qualifies you for bloviating.

No.......way............

I......... am not .............. at all..............

GUILTY.................

......of THAT.............!

[GreyGeek]

LOL!
I'll bet Woodsmoke heard the word "bloviate" for the first time the say way I did, listening to one of Bill Riley's opinion pieces! BTW, Steve, are you related somhow?

[Qqmike]

What's the clue?

To bloviate is to talk, but not just to chat. To bloviate means to go on and on and on and on, usually in a pompous way.
Can you hear the blow in the word bloviate? That's a clue that someone bloviating is blowing some serious hot air. When someone bloviates, he is speaking in an empty, pretentious, full-of-himself manner. This word is often associated with politicians, who probably invented bloviating. When someone is talking a lot and saying a little, they're bloviating.

http://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/bloviate

[SteveRiley]

...Bill Riley's opinion pieces! BTW, Steve, are you related somhow?

Egads, perish the thought! You see, the big difference between him and me is that he's always wrong.

"Bloviate" is one of my favorite words. It's only the thing that sabbath gasbags are actually any good at.