#Snollygoster Productions

[posterporn]

Goodfellas (1990) by Snollygoster Productions

Directed by Martin Scorsese

Starring Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco, Paul Sorvino, Frank Sivero, Tony Darrow, Mike Starr, & Frank Vincent

#Goodfellas #1990 #Snollygoster Productions #Martin Scorsese #Robert De Niro #Ray Liotta #Joe Pesci #Lorraine Bracco #Paul Sorvino #Frank Sivero #Tony Darrow #Mike Starr #Frank Vincent #Movie Poster

[davidhudson]

Happy 81st, Nick Nolte.

Poster by Snollygoster Productions.

#nick nolte #snollygoster productions #cinema #film #movies #movie posters #movie poster

[heisenbergchronicles]

Alt poster for El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie by Snollygoster Productions

#breaking bad #el camino #posters #fan art #snollygoster productions #snollygoster #jesse pinkman #chevrolet el camino #desert

[thecinematicshots]

Parasite (2019) [1503x1000] by Snollygoster Productions

#movie posters

[yojabari]

Ford V Ferrari by Snollygoster Productions

#ford v ferrari #film #art

[cinemaandarts]

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[thatsnotcanonpodcasts]

Snollygoster

Hello hello, loquacious listeners, and welcome to An Assemblage of Grandiose and Bombastic Grandiloquents. I certainly hope today’s word does not apply to you, or anyone else you may happen to come across, for today’s word is: snollygoster.

Snollygoster, rather simply means a shrewd or unprincipled person, especially a politician but can be further described as ‘a fellow who who wants office, regardless of party, platform or principles, and who, whenever he wins, gets there by sheer force of monumental talknophical assumancy.’ I told you you didn’t want to be today’s word.

The origin of ‘snollygoster’ is unknown, though the Oxford English Dictionary suggests it may be linked to ‘snallygaster’, which some people suppose dervies from the German 'schneller Geister’, which literally means ‘a quick ghost’. Snallygaster comes from American Folklore, and is a dragon-like beast said to inhabit Central Maryland, the Washington DC metro area, and particularly the Middletown area of Frederick County, Maryland. It is described as half-reptile, half-bird with a metallic beak lined with razor-sharp teeth, occasionally with octopus-like tentacles. It swoops silently from the sky to pick up and carry off its victims. So, exactly like a politician, yes?

Returning back to ‘snollygoster’, the first written evidence of the word is from 1846, however it’s noted that it was popularised by Georgian democrat, H. J. W. Ham, who travelled the United States of America in the 1890s with a speech called ‘The Snollygoster in Politics’. Mr Ham defined a snollygoster as ‘one with an unquenchable thirst for office with neither the power to get it nor the ability to fill it.’ The use of snollygoster began to fade after this time, with one notable exception. American President Harry Truman used it in a speech in 1952, saying ‘I wish some of these snollygosters would read the New Testament and perform accordingly’, though his understanding of the term is questionable.

Isn’t language wonderful?

Written by Taylor Davidson, Read by Zane C Weber

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[heisenbergchronicles]

A Little Crooked desktop wallpaper by Snollygoster Productions / Twitter

#better call saul #bcs 3x02 #illustration #fan art #wallpaper #desktop #snollygoster #snollygoster productions #wexler-mcgill #etude in blue

[heisenbergchronicles]

Enjoy Your Champagne wallpaper by Snollygoster Productions / Twitter

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[heisenbergchronicles]

Taste the Family by Snollygoster Productions / Desktop wallpaper version

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[slutsandgutscom]

Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood (2019) by Snollygoster Productions #movieposter pic.twitter.com/IlDRJPOWct

— Sluts and Guts (@sluts_guts) June 19, 2020

Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood (2019) by Snollygoster Productions #movieposter https://t.co/IlDRJPOWct View On Twitter!

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[thatsnotcanonpodcasts]

Superbious

Hello there my fabulous philomaths! It’s time for another episode of An Assemblage of Grandiose and Bombastic Grandiloquents! Unruffle that feather in your cap, because today’s word is: superbious.

Superbious is an adjective meaning proud, insolent or overbearing. For example, ‘Johnathan was rather superbious about his debate championship win, but didn’t realise his fly was undone as he walked around the party.’ It is usually referred to someone who has pride in an excessive or exaggerated way. It comes from the Latin ‘superbiosus’ meaning proud of insolent, which came from ‘superbia’, meaning pride, which in turn stems from ‘superbus’, meaning superb or proud. What a long journey!

The earliest documented use was 1509, and where it originally had a more positive meaning, superb, grand, noble or magnificent, over time ‘superbious’ evolved to have a negative connotation like haughty, vain or insolent. Curiously, ‘superbious’ does qualify for the scrabble dictionary, though it would be worth 14 points. This is perhaps because it has fallen out of use today.

It does, however, make an appearance on Urban Dictionary, a website for definitions of modern words and examples of how they are used in current conversation. Urban Dictionary defines ‘superbious’ as ‘great, amazing, super’ and gives the example, ‘Superbious! I’m glad that you are here.’ An exclamation of sorts, you might say, perhaps deriving from ‘superb’, with the suffix ‘ious’, and so creating ‘something that is superb’. Fascinating how words, evolve from one meaning, to another, and almost back again, without even knowing that the world already existed in the first place!

You might even find yourself listening to the song ‘791 Superbious Snollygosters’ from the album ‘Darkwave Sinofias’, but you’ll have to listen to find out which version they’re referring to!

Isn’t language wonderful?

Written by Taylor Davidson, Read by Zane C Weber

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[slutsandgutscom]

Parasite (2019) by Snollygoster Productions #movieposter pic.twitter.com/dNpE4IareS

— Sluts and Guts (@sluts_guts) January 29, 2020

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[slutsandgutscom]

1917 (2019) by Snollygoster Productions #movieposter pic.twitter.com/WzRuX8oLUA

— Sluts and Guts (@sluts_guts) January 27, 2020

1917 (2019) by Snollygoster Productions #movieposter https://t.co/WzRuX8oLUA View On Twitter!

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