I’m gonna keep things simple and lowbrow: here’s a collection of local news anchors saying “Weiner” while talking about the disgraced New York congressman (today’s New York Post front page: “OBAMA BEATS WEINER”). I like the part where they say “Weiner.”
Anyway, as much as I’ve enjoyed the widespread influx of dick jokes across all media platforms, this does throw my little OCD world of grammar and pronunciation into disarray. I’ve always maintained that w-e-i-n-e-r is pronounced “whiner,” while the w-i-e-n-er of Oscar Mayer and penis fame was “weener.” And then Anthony Weiner came along, snapped pictures of his junk, and destroyed my beliefs. Totally worth it.
[iheartchaos via BuzzFeed]
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Given what a crazed exhibitionist this dude is, it wouldn’t shock me if his family had always pronounced it “whiner,” but he woke up one day and was like, “Screw it. I want people thinking about my junk all the time. ‘Weener’ it is.”
Maybe we should just call him Anthony Penis. Or Anthony Cock. Or Anthony I Must Be One Of The Dumbest People Alive If I Thought Nobody Would Find Out About This.
Come on, Steve, how was he supposed to know that his plan of sending total strangers on the internet a series of easily-shared electronic images of him exposing his junk, with his face in full view, would ever end up going wrong?
“The preferred spelling of wiener is w-i-e-n-e-r, although e-i is an acceptable ethnic variant.” – Martin Prince
If a Simpsons quote supports it, it must be true.
I still can’t believe this guy is going to resign when an admitted whore banger who liked to wear Pampers is still alive and well in Congress, but Pelosi and Obama have all but shouted “Dead man walking!”
I bet when it happens the New York Post goes with a classy headline like “Weiner Snipped!” or maybe a photoshop of Lorena Bobbitt.
I used to work the phones at an auto parts distributor by that name and we always pronounced it “whiners”. The only people who pronounced it “weeners” were crank callers and people to whom I’d sent the wrong brake pads.
cant keep the name out of their mouths. just how he likes it.
Fight the power, Weenman! The Kardashian presidency will need a media savvy insider when time comes.
@Otto: I’d bet one of my kids that the original headline the Post wanted to run said “spanked” instead of “beats”.
Does anyone know if they’ve used “SCANDAL DOGS WEINER” yet? They can have that one for free.
Hot dogs are Vienners. As in from Vienna, Australia. They invented them down under and used to cook them on the ‘barby’. Weiners are Jews that were whiners at the Ellis island entry lines and were therefore named as such. TOTALLY DIFFERENT.
/Cliff Clavin’d
I like how people can’t even pronouce their own names..
Wiener -> sausage from Wien(Vienna) Austria pronouced “veener”
Weiner -> person who sells wein(wine).. pronounced “viner”
“OBAMA BEATS WEINER”.
He’s just like us.