Jim says: "I don't know if you've been following The Daily Show this week, but one of the funniest terms to come out of the Cheney shooting incident has been the term, 'quailtard,' which was used on Monday's program.
"The term described the farm-raised quail released for the hunters to fire at.
"Somebody on the WELL expressed sadness that Wikipedia didn't show an entry for 'quailtard,' so I created an entry. And of course, the nannies immediately showed up to list it for deletion, on grounds that it's not significant enough.
This is one of the best coined words of all time! And it's got significant historic significance in this story. I think that more than qualifies it. After all, Colbert's 'truthiness' qualifies!"
Quailtard is a word combining "Quail," a mid-sized game bird of the pheasant family, and "tard," a contraction of the noun "retard," an often offensive word used to describe the mentally challenged, or retarded. First used on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart]. The word was used in humorous reference to the farm-raised quail released for hunting by Vice President, Dick Cheney, and others on Katharine Armstrong's south Texas ranch. On February 11, 2006, while hunting these quail, Cheney accidentally shot hunting companion, Harry M. Whittington, a lawyer from Austin, TX, with his 28 gauge shotgun from a reported distance of thirty yards.
Reader comment: Robert says: "Alas, the short happy life of 'quailtard' has already ended. Wikipedia has placed a redirect on the page to 'Dick Cheney hunting incident.'
"Of course, if everyone were to start blogging about quailtards and it enters the modern parlance, then Wikipedia would *have to* allow it, wouldn't they? . . .
a la 'santorum' . . . [insert evil laughter] "
Reader comment: Robert says: "I was wrong – it's back. A user just redirected it and it was promptly un-redirected. The quailtard is dead. Long live the quailtard!"
