granfalloon

Re: [jennifer rose] "A granfalloon is a proud and meaningless association of human beings."

expats from up north 2004

The karass is that group of friends from college who have helped one another's careers in a hundred subtle ways over the years; the granfalloon is the marketing department at your firm, where everyone has a meticulously defined place on the org chart but nothing ever gets done.

Boing Boing: March 9, 2003 - March 15, 2003 Archives 2003

The social cohesion promoted by paying taxes to and receiving benefit checks from the same government agency as millions of other strangers is spurious, however — an example of the "granfalloon," Kurt Vonnegut's term for

Claremont.org 2009

At first I thought it was a version of the granfalloon, the term Kurt Vonnegut invented to describe a striking but meaningless encounter: my brother-in-law, Jim Rasenberger and I both have books coming out within two weeks of each other.

Eugene Linden: The Bay of Pigs: Disaster and Triumph Eugene Linden 2011

A granfalloon is supposedly one of the many groupings that human beings compulsively create.

And So It Went Tom Shippey 2011

At first I thought it was a version of the granfalloon, the term Kurt Vonnegut invented to describe a striking but meaningless encounter: my brother-in-law, Jim Rasenberger and I both have books coming out within two weeks of each other.

Eugene Linden: The Bay of Pigs: Disaster and Triumph Eugene Linden 2011

A more serious theme in "Cat's Cradle" was its condemnation of the "granfalloon," a term Vonnegut invented.

And So It Went Tom Shippey 2011

At first I thought it was a version of the granfalloon, the term Kurt Vonnegut invented to describe a striking but meaningless encounter: my brother-in-law, Jim Rasenberger and I both have books coming out within two weeks of each other.

Eugene Linden: The Bay of Pigs: Disaster and Triumph Eugene Linden 2011

At first I thought it was a version of the granfalloon, the term Kurt Vonnegut invented to describe a striking but meaningless encounter: my brother-in-law, Jim Rasenberger and I both have books coming out within two weeks of each other.

Eugene Linden: The Bay of Pigs: Disaster and Triumph Eugene Linden 2011

Hazel's obsession with Hoosiers around the world was a textbook example of a false karass, of a seeming team that was meaningless in terms of the ways God gets things done, a textbook example of what Bokonon calls a granfalloon.

In which of the states is it easiest to talk to strangers? Ann Althouse 2009