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Childhood’s End: Stan Berenstain has passed away. Stan and his wife Jan penned no end of children’s books featuring Mama, Papa, Brother and Sister Bear with Baby added sometime later. The books main message was that of building character and handling everyday situations. No capes, no space ships, no Gazoo. Stan’s obituary uses the term ‘Seinfeldian‘ to describe the fact that most of the Berenstain Bears books cover matters most ordinary. To borrow from Mr. Kroc - millions and millions served (but with no excess fat).

That Seinfeldian‘ term was a clever bit, eh? Our old buddy Wikipedia didn’t have the exact term, but did of course contain a long reference to the Seinfeld show. Said reference does make use of the Seinfeldian term.

Thus wondering we skipped a bit over to THE OED website to see if The Master had anything to say about Seinfeldian. Alas the OED doth require a buy in and we found ourselves bereft of coin. Oh sigh…

Fret not however…’Seinfeldian definition’ we did try using the Mighty Hammer (Google). The first hit was for a Schtick site and the second one queried “How Bad Is Sex On TV For Teenagers?”. Hmmm. You don’t suppose the site is trying to decide on the quality of TV sex as per teenagers do you?

The third Google hit referenced “Seinfeldian Anti-War Dialectic”. Ugh. Another hit spoke of something “quasi-Seinfeldian”. Ugh again. Other phrases we discovered were:

* Seinfeldian thought - thinking about nothing? or just a man thinking about sex?

* Seinfeldian universe - universal Nothing? This could be a Taoist maxim.

* Seinfeldian nothing (?) - a nothing nothing? Nothing from Nothing leaves Nothing.

* Seinfeldian haze - Timothy Leary is back and the Color Isn’t Purple.

* Seinfeldian drawl - a Texas nothing?

Well, gotta go. We’ve a bit of deoxy cooking and someone’s knocking on the front door…

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