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Hornswaggle is an alternate spelling of
hornswoggle, an archaic word that means to bamboozle or hoodwink. I take my
pronunciation from the late Harvey Korman in "Blazing Saddles" --
"I want rustlers, cutthroats, murderers,
bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits,
vipers, snipers, conmen, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers,
buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswagglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train
robbers, bank robbers, ass kickers, shit kickers and Methodists!"
I studied German in high school and college and spent a semester in Berlin, so I have a greater degree of empathy for the German people, butts of so many easy Hitler jokes, than most people I meet.
But I still don't like hearing a guy with an Austrian accent telling Californians to respect the rule of law for the sake of order. "Wir muessen Ordnung haben!" Sorry, Charlie. Just don't like it.
Speaking of Arnold Schwarzenegger, he confirmed the other day that he thinks naturalized, foreign-born citizens such as himself who have been in American for more than 20 years ought to be able to run for president. Schwarzenegger's buddy, Sen. Orrin "Eyes of the Misbegotten" Hatch, is working on changing the relevant law as we speak. If the prospect of Bush-Bush-Schwarzenegger-Schwarzenegger doesn't scare you, then perhaps you are the Chosen One, able to laugh in the face of death, in which case, quit the eXtreme snowboarding circuit, the human race needs you.
