15 May 2017

farnarkling

noun / verb

1. The group activity whereby everyone sits around discussing the need to “do something” but nothing actually happens

Example

Farnarkling lost a champion yesterday, with the passing of Mr John Clarke.
John Clarke: Gone to the great farnarkling grommet in the sky
John Birmingham
10 April 2017

Anagram

flaring rank
far gnarl ink

Today’s quote

Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.

– Stephen Gardiner

On this day

15 May – The Nakba (Day of the Catastrophe), Palestine – commemoration of the displacement of more than 700,000 Palestinians and the depopulation and destruction of at least 400 villages during the establishment of Israel in 1948.

15 May 1970 – At Jackson State University in Mississippi, police open fire on students who were protesting against the Vietnam and Cambodian Wars, killing two and injuring twelve.