Generation Weenie

Another of the same, or at least that is what the U.K. Minister of Labour believes. Unfortunately, his comment that the members of a particular town may be inbred didn’t go over well with his constituents. Never mind that this Minister has a PhD in genetics and was referring to the higher rate of diabetes seen in this specific location compared to the fact that very few members leave the town and that many have the same last name.  Hi, this is my brother Daryl and my other brother Daryl.

One of the first things to go in the Generation Member’s brain is the section that remembers vocabulary.  Perhaps on their induction, Weenies are issued a special dictioweenie that informs them when to get offended.  The beauty of this dictioweenie is that reference to any and all definitions are immediately substituted by their offensive counterparts.  Take Tar Baby, for instance.  The dictionary defines it as “A situation or problem from which it is virtually impossible to disentangle oneself,” after a story by Joel Chandler Harris that described a doll made of tar that was supposed to snare a bre’r rabbit.  This week, presidential hopeful Mitt Romney uttered that remark (using the word correctly by dictionary reference) relating to Boston’s Big Dig debacle.  Gen W members, on a hunch, consulted their dictioweenies and came up with a lewd term for persons of African descent, or in other words, black people.  They immediately cried foul, probably dashing the election hopes of Massachusetts’ poor gov.  Oh well, he’s not the first politician to be in a situation or problem from which it is virtually impossible to disentangle oneself, a.k.a. a tar baby.

Oh the child development experts are outraged again, this time at Sesame Street’s decision to market videos for children under two.  Apparently, T.V. is not a healthy part of a pre-two-year-old’s social diet.  Not that I can speak for a tiny tot, but compared to the usual eat, poop, and sleep, I’d like to have a little big bird time in my day.  Of course, if my parent is a Weenie, I can only look forward to a mobile in my crib.  How exciting.

Weenie words: outraged, disappointed