While I work on getting my mojo back, just wondering if any readers are getting their daily dose of glurge? What’s glurge? According to Wikipedia:

Glurge is a neologism describing a certain kind of melodramatic, saccharine story. The defining characteristic of glurge is that, while its purpose is to make the reader happy, the feel-good aspect is so overdone that it is more likely to nauseate rather than to inspire. It often has a religious theme and is most commonly circulated via e-mail in the form of a chain letter. The term was coined in 1998 by regular Urban Legends Reference Pages forum contributor Pat Chapin as an onomatopoeia to communicate the feeling evoked by reading these missives.

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Common themes in glurge are man’s relationship with God or children protected by angels or cute animals. While most glurge is of a Christian nature, glurge may also be associated with other religions, atheism, patriotism or nostalgia. Glurge may also be thinly veiled social criticism of the religious persecution some Christians perceive, though some argue that this is not true glurge, lacking as it does the cloying sentimentality that characterizes pure glurge.

In case you want any, here’s a link.

Posted by Buck Batard at May 01, 2006 08:13 AM

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