My Google search indicates that prior uses of the word combo "rouged individualism" were all typos from people who were badly misspelling "rugged," e.g.:
The Pacific Northwest has the group identity of "Rouged Individualism". There are plenty of positive aspects of this perspective, but as is obvious, plenty of pitfalls as well. So now I'm independent and capable but by using my strengths, not trying to be something I'm not.Plenty of pitfalls... and pitbulls wearing lipstick... and rouge....
ADDED: This post was inspired by wyo sis's riffing in the comments about a different misspelling of "rugged" — "rugid":
rugid individualism(Sarah is everywhere!)
I like that!
I think I'll start using it.
It has a refudiated ring to it.
AND: Meade makes a visual pun for "rugged individualism," using my photo of the "Pioneer Family" sculpture and his photoshopping (anti)skill:
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Rogued?
It wasn't me, it was my iPad! ;)
I think I deserve a tag for that.
"Rugged individualism" highlighted at the Democrat Convention?
How the hell do they explain that poster leach of Democrat values, "Julia" then?
"Julia" is to "rugged individualism" what "Barack Obama" is to "merit" and "competency."
Some people will believe anything.
Rouged Individualism
The motto of the Association of Republican Sorority Sisters?
Somehow I'm thinking about Harvey Fierstein.
For Democrats and their enablers, "rugged individualism" = "government is the only thing we all belong to".
When I showed that video to my Dad he said, "It sounds like what they're saying is we all belong to the government."
There's also rigid individualism. (The possibilities are endless.)
Don't forget Sarah Palin's book 'Going Rouge'.
You shouldna corrected it, Allie!
Is this an appropriate place for me to introduce my two own favorite coinages?
1) "For all intensive porpoises..."
2) "Queso restavo." (That's a Latin legal term, and it means, literally, "I rest my cheese."
AllieOop said...
It wasn't me, it was my iPad! ;)
9/5/12 9:04 AM
AllieOop said...
I think I deserve a tag for that
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You didn't coin that. Steve Jobs did. No, wait, he had teachers and drove on roads and stuff, so the government did.
And the iPad was made in China, so that government built that.
*waits patiently for another liberal column about how much better China is, and how we should be like China, if only for a day*
Rouged
Rugid
Rugged
It's like when you say a word so many times it loses it's meaning.
I think rouged and rugid should completely overtake the old cliche.
Rugid has a slow turgid yet somehow perky connotation. What a perfectly descriptive word. Reminds me of Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
The Dem's lamo response to Sarah Palin.
I'm interested in Allie's theory (Ooponomics) that a rugged individualist, someone who pays their own way, is a net expense to the community, and that Julia, someone whose every decision costs someone besides her money, is a net asset.
Since it refers to an independent thinking woman, a rouged individual is by definition a Libertarian or Republican.
It is antithetical to the Democrat coinage "all your babe are belong to us".
2) "Queso restavo." (That's a Latin legal term, and it means, literally, "I rest my cheese."
Qui Queso transvecto?
That's a Latin self-help term specifically for Italians, and it means, literally, "Who moved my mozzarella di bufala?"
I remember seeing a piece in Life magazine where women during the Napoleonic Era wore dresses that bared their breasts.
For optimum effect, said breasts were powdered and the nipples rouged.
Is that similar?
In the world of Role Playing Games (RPGs) an iconic character class is the rogue. Of course, 3/4 ths of the time it is spelled rouge.
Incidentally, the RPG world is huge. World of Warcraft (WOW) has 10 million subscribers @ $15/month. As many as 20 million people regularly play games of this genre.
So are those 'rugs' really public hair pieces? Statue-tory merkins?
"Rouged individualism" is a nice attempt, not all that successful, to give new life to a dying (OK, completely dead) cliche. It would probably work better as a visual pun, though, since that kind of poking-fun often is better achieved by indirection.
Ruth, I see what you did there.
Are the rugs Meade drew in over the the pioneers' heads in celebration of the pioneer scalps taken by bands of Comanche raiders ( the forerunners of the occupy movement?)
Those who hew too closely to the rouged-individualist line are also known as I-liners.
"Rouged individualism."
Althouse: As in her speech last night, there's a misplaced emotionality that's too much about her family's personal need for gratification.
Rouged egocentrism?
Pinko individualism is an oxymoron.
Meade, I liked yours.
How about "Roget ibidism"? Literally, "Using the thesaurus to avoid having to cite the original source". That seems au courant (literally, "around currency") lately.
That reminds one of lyrics, " In 1915 we took a little trip along with Henry up the mighty Rouge River and entered the world's largest vertically integrated auto manufacturing plant that made the steel, made the tires, nade the engines and assembled the model Ts.
also known as I-liners
Heh
Meade should take up actually learning photoshop as a winter hobby.
Bob
Funny!
Biden's speeches exemplify turgid individualim.
Also: "Rigged Individualism."
Meade, no disrespect but you need to call Chip in for the photoshopping.
I know - mine is a bit ragged.
Still - I can't let myself become dependent on Chip to improve my own substandard efforts. Sure, it would make me look better, smarter, richer.
I'm a ragged individualist.
One of the most common player "classes" or types in massively multiplayer online roleplaying games (MMORPGs) like World of Warcraft is the rogue.
In every online game in which there are rogues, the most commonly misspelled word IS "rogue." Inevitably it is spelled "rouge."
Being a pedant, my standard line when my rogue encountered someone who made this mistake was: "Rouge is the makeup that approximates the blush your cheeks should be wearing for misspelling the name of the rogue class."
Then I'd backstab 'em for 10,000 damage.
wyosis wrote, "
Rugid has a slow turgid yet somehow perky connotation. What a perfectly descriptive word. Reminds me of Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
The Dem's lamo response to Sarah Palin."
Lamo, lamoer, lamoest. Debbie Wasserman-test (Sgt. I Know Nossink) Schultz is not even a lamo imitation. You are overly generous. She can't turn a phrase like Sarah, and she can't turn a man's head like Sarah (look away, look AWAY, dixie--and all others-land).
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