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Skutniks or "Lenny Skutniks" are the people who get invited to the State of the Union Address and are mentioned in the speech. To the cynical, Skutniks are stagecraft. (First employed by Ronald Reagan celebrating a hero rescuer of the Washington D.C. plane crash two weeks before.
What's a Skutnik and Why Is One Sitting Next to Michelle Obama at the State of the Union?
BRIAN RESNICK NATIONAL JOURNAL
FEB 11, 2013
What's a Skutnik and Why Is One Sitting Next to Michelle Obama at the State of the Union?
BRIAN RESNICK NATIONAL JOURNAL
FEB 11, 2013
“President Obama will look up at the first lady's box, glance to the left or the right of his wife, and then sing praises of Staff Sgt. Clint Romesha, a Medal of Honor recipient. That's because Romesha is a Skutnik.”
skutnik by Yosemite Tom February 4, 2019
breatharian
breatharian by leena gabor November 8, 2005
Word of the Day on June 3, 2026
A Booger In The Nose Of Progress
"Militarily, that inquest was a booger in the nose of progress."
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"As far as human rights are concerned, this political infighting is a booger in the nose of progress."
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"As far as human rights are concerned, this political infighting is a booger in the nose of progress."
A Booger In The Nose Of Progress by Rok'n'rol Wannabe October 19, 2006
Word of the Day on June 2, 2026
fogey
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)