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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!"

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Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Affleck comes clean

This was a heckuva hoax: No one was fooled, no one saw the movie, and now everyone dislikes Joacquin Phoenix.

I'd obviously have to see the movie to say for sure, but it seems to me Casey Affleck would have been better off not trying to fool anybody and just trying to make a piece of fiction. Same actor, same subject matter, just don't pretend it's real. They still could have filmed a Letterman appearance, for instance, just not put it on TV beforehand.

.: posted by hornswaggler 8:43 AM


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