Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Glitter

"A third protestor was later arrested after she threw glitter on Santorum as he was shaking hands with the crowd," reports the National Journal; obviously "glitter" was the word for the day....

It raised two questions.  I knew that glitter (both a noun and a verb) means to shine brightly. As Santorum discovered, it also is that bright tiny stuff that people throw at parties--generally after the third bottle or so.  And it comes from the Norse--who generally HAVE to be drunk to be that merry.

What can't I answer?  The second question--why was a protestor throwing glitter on Santorum?

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