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by Dr. Heywood R. Floyd May 11, 2007
Get the atpersandmug. A fake identity that the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador assumed in a congressional hearing in 1990, after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, before American intervention.
The powers that be first coached a 15-year-old Kuwaiti girl, identified only at the time as Naira, to testify before Congress that she had seen Iraqi soldiers remove Kuwaiti babies from hospital incubators. "Naira" claimed to be a refugee who had been working as a volunteer in a Kuwaiti hospital throughout the first few weeks of the Iraqi occupation. She said that she had seen them take babies out of the incubators, take the incubators, and leave the babies "on the cold floor to die."
Naira's emotional testimony riveted human rights organizations, the news media, and the nation. That incident was cited by six Members of the U.S. Senate as reasons to go to war with Iraq.
The propaganda effort worked but later the entire episode was exposed as an outright lie and the girl turned out to be the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the US. No matter that it was all just a staged stunt to sway people's opinions, it helped to pave the way for all the misery and death to follow. They gave those emotional chains a big, hard yank.
I can't prove it, but I always thought that this is what inspired the movie "Wag the Dog."
The powers that be first coached a 15-year-old Kuwaiti girl, identified only at the time as Naira, to testify before Congress that she had seen Iraqi soldiers remove Kuwaiti babies from hospital incubators. "Naira" claimed to be a refugee who had been working as a volunteer in a Kuwaiti hospital throughout the first few weeks of the Iraqi occupation. She said that she had seen them take babies out of the incubators, take the incubators, and leave the babies "on the cold floor to die."
Naira's emotional testimony riveted human rights organizations, the news media, and the nation. That incident was cited by six Members of the U.S. Senate as reasons to go to war with Iraq.
The propaganda effort worked but later the entire episode was exposed as an outright lie and the girl turned out to be the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the US. No matter that it was all just a staged stunt to sway people's opinions, it helped to pave the way for all the misery and death to follow. They gave those emotional chains a big, hard yank.
I can't prove it, but I always thought that this is what inspired the movie "Wag the Dog."
Boo hoo hoo, I can't stand the thought of those babies dying on the cold floor, like that nurse Naira told us. Those Iraqis sure are meanies. We Americans just have to do something...
by Dr. Heywood R. Floyd April 6, 2007
Get the Nairamug. confusion either induced by the media or from which the media suffers; when the media obfuscates rather than enlightens.
I hope and pray that the American people can cut through the endless media haze and partisan nonsense and finally pick some responsible and intelligent leaders.
by Dr. Heywood R. Floyd May 4, 2007
Get the media haze mug. a frog that has been run over by so many cars that it's flat. You can pick it up and throw it like a Frisbee and it will sail.
by Dr. Heywood R. Floyd January 12, 2008
Get the sailfrogmug. an island off the coast of Georgia (USA, not the former Soviet republic)
Simply put, it is the most beautiful place on earth.
And no, I don't live there (but wish I did). Only a few people live there, most of it is national seashore. The rest of the dry land is forest of huge old oaks with animals running around. And wild horses running wild on the beach.
Very few people live there. It's mostly federal land and they allow only 300 peeps in at a time.
Simply put, it is the most beautiful place on earth.
And no, I don't live there (but wish I did). Only a few people live there, most of it is national seashore. The rest of the dry land is forest of huge old oaks with animals running around. And wild horses running wild on the beach.
Very few people live there. It's mostly federal land and they allow only 300 peeps in at a time.
by Dr. Heywood R. Floyd May 4, 2007
Get the Cumberland Islandmug. the part of one that tingles when one is getting near one's prey. (possibly the hindquarters, thus the stink-related name - stankbones).
Popularized by Cletus, the slack-jawed redneck on "The Simpsons."
Popularized by Cletus, the slack-jawed redneck on "The Simpsons."
by Dr. Heywood R. Floyd June 7, 2007
Get the stankbonesmug. a person who re-defines words to suit himself, rather than using words the way the dictionary defines them.
From Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking Glass":
`When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, `it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less.'
`The question is,' said Alice, `whether you can make words mean so many different things.'
`The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, `which is to be master -- that's all.'
From Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking Glass":
`When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, `it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less.'
`The question is,' said Alice, `whether you can make words mean so many different things.'
`The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, `which is to be master -- that's all.'
Person 1: I'm hungry.
Person 2: You don't know the meaning of "hungry" till you've been starving like the hordes in the third world.
Person 3: Bullshit! Look it up in the dictionary, Humpty Dumpty!
Person 2: You don't know the meaning of "hungry" till you've been starving like the hordes in the third world.
Person 3: Bullshit! Look it up in the dictionary, Humpty Dumpty!
by Dr. Heywood R. Floyd April 26, 2010
Get the Humpty Dumptymug.