Hashtag glenning

While the origins of the term glenning are murky, its meanings are multitudinous and varied. Over time, dozens have piled up, and are routinely cited, nearly always inaccurately, by the residents of Zeppelinheim.
# An obscure chain of connections between Glenn and someone famous, often parodied in the form: Glenn's mail carrier's dentist knows Werner Herzog.
# Glenn actually meeting someone famous in passing, and then trading off that connection for years. As in, “I once spent an hour with Werner Herzog in 1995.”
# Glenn summoning some remote series of connections between people he doesn’t know.
# Suggesting a topic for an episode and not participating in the recording of the episode.
# Ruining a game show episode (actually, improving it) by failing to understand the premise of the game until it is well underway. Canonical example: The first Turns Out, in which Glenn was supposed to be telling the truth and, instead, told a lie.
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# Being on a podcast and then finding out half way through the show finding out you weren’t supposed to be on the show (per UK Trivia 3)
The term gets formed into new variations, such as snelling, daviding, lizzing and the like.
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