Thwabilize - To put an inbred European aristocrat (a Hapsburg, for instance) in charge of a volitile political situation in the (probably vain) hope that everyone will be so busy laughing at his speech impediment that they will forget to fight each other.
Sintiture.
(Flyman, I owe you the smiley I should have put after that, and a beer if you're in this part of the world sometime.
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