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Valerie Andruss's avatar

And, of course, you made me look up whelm :-). According to the interweb, whelm is derived from the Old English hwielfan,. Whelm past tense or past participle: = whelmed

* engulf, submerge, or bury. "a swimmer whelmed in a raging storm"

* flow or heap up abundantly."

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Lee Judge's avatar

Thanks for looking that up and I'm going to start using whelmed as often as possible. As in "I'm totally whelmed by your attendance at this Thanksgiving Dinner." That should confuse the crap out of everybody.

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Elaine the Mean Old Feminist's avatar

I talked to my crazy minarchist / libertarian / Reagan worshiping brother Steven on the way into work today. He lives in Michigan. He says he's not going to vote, because he doesn't support either party, but even he admits that if Harris wins it probably won't be as ugly as if Trump does. That's because he thinks the Dems will riot. But then, he also thinks January 6th was an antifa thing. 😂

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Lee Judge's avatar

Despite what I said earlier, maybe it's a good thing if your brother doesn't vote.

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