GET ME REWRITE: The audience had a jolly good time at the most recent Madison City Council meeting

 

Headline:  Wisconsin State Journal, 9/20/2023

Discussion about the ordinance lasted about forty minutes and concluded around 11 p.m. in a meeting where council members discussed the new pig rules for about thirty minutes and a permit for a Far West Side dog kennel for about an hour and 15 minutes.

Prior to the adjournment rule's failure, Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway cautioned that an attempt years ago to cut off meetings at midnight just saw the council vote to continue the meeting every single time. 

Rhodes-Conway advised the council that they could shorten meetings by doing symbolic, honorary resolutions at community events, delegating work to committees, asking staff questions before the meeting and practicing brevity. "You could collectively try to refocus your agendas on the policy issues that matter to this community, which frankly is not what you spend most of your time talking about," the mayor said. 

 

In other words, there's way too much of this shit.

 

According to Merriam-Webster, the first known use of grandstand as a verb occurred in 1915.

Other coinages from the same year include:

1. around-the-clock
2. cerebrate
3. dysfunctional
4. narcissistic
5. whiz bang
6. zero hour