Word for the Day, Tuesday May 24, 2016

[SoothingDave]

Word For The Day, Tuesday May 24, 2016

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In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".

jimjamsl[jim-jamz]

-n
1. extreme nervousness; jitters.
2. delirium tremens.

[1540-50; gradational compound based on jam1. Cf. flimflam, jingle-jangle, etc.]

[SoothingDave]

No jimjams tonight for a certain collection of flightless birds or it’s curtains for them.

[dblshot]

The Clinton Foundation is a scam
Giving Trump opportunity to slam
Hilary’s ethics
As pathetic
But it all just gives me the jimjams

[xsmommy]

These games are hard to watch when so much is riding on them. Good luck🐧🏒

[SoothingDave]

This guy hit it on the head the other day:

http://triblive.com/sports/joestarkey/10486504-74/game-penguins-series

The Game 4 snapshot I can’t seem to shake: Trevor Daley, unable to stand after injuring his leg in the corner, crawling back into the danger area in front of his goaltender and positioning himself on all fours until the whistle blew.

How unbelievable was that?

This whole thing is unbelievable.

The Stanley Cup playoffs, I mean. If you’re a fan and had forgotten what it’s like to live and die with a team through all the insanity, given the Penguins’ meager exits in recent years, this spring has provided one whale of a refresher course, hasn’t it?

[NeoCaveman]

I sense electoral jimjams among democrats while they try to reassure themselves with columns like this.

[MisterArtery]

I once knew a dim bulb who said she had purchased a jimjam dress. That how she pronounced gingham.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Bill Clinton’s “Thank you ma’am” wham-bams
Plus Hillary’s emailgate flim-flams
Have made the Old Left
Very scared and bereft
A serious case of the jimjams

[VRWCmember]

I once knew a dim bulb who said she had purchased a jimjam dress. That how she pronounced gingham.

Did she speak in a manner reminiscent of a horse-faced debutant traitor speaking before a senate subcommittee?

[left that other site]

I prefer the heebie-jeebies to the jimjams. The heebie-jeebies have an cultural element of mystery and awe, while the jimjams are just uncomfortable!

But that’s just me.

[xsmommy]

I see no athletes in any other sport willing to do that, do you? In some ways it’s far more of a TEAM sport. It’s been incredibly exciting hockey IMO. There was some vid of Lebron doing some backwards dive over exaggerated drama, looked so ludicrous hen you think of what hockey players endure.

[VRWCmember]

Apparently the mere existence of a photo of attractive, well-dressed, and articulate students holding signs making true statements about biological gender and mental disorders of those who reject biological truth is enough to cause extreme jimjams among a certain "community" on campus.

Student photo protests transgender identity, raises free speech debate

[VRWCmember]

There was some vid of Lebron doing some backwards dive over exaggerated drama,

Flopping in basketball is ridiculous and at one point the NBA was actually cracking down on flopping with some penalties. They need to actually make it a technical foul and then if they start calling it perhaps something will improve. That said, there is some degree of "diving" in hockey, and occasionally the worst offenders in this category draw a two minute penalty for it.

[SoothingDave]

I think Letang got away with a dive in the last game.

[xsmommy]

yes i am aware of the diving in hockey, but the diving in basketball is not offset by instances of extreme bravery in getting up after an injury and going back out there to worry about being injured AFTER the game. NBA players are all small wimpy cats...
and soother yes, the disney prince can dive, as can the capt...

[xsmommy]

honestly i am at my wits end with the transgendered BS. my SIL, xsteen and i were just this AM discussing how STUPID it is for hersheypark to have come out saying they will permit men identifying as women in the restrooms there. that is AMISH/MENNONITE country and very conservative, i can’t imagine that going over well. Until the fricking populace rises up and pushes back against this crap, instead of capitulating to this miniscule % of people, it will continue. I saw something this AM that Ros-Lehtin from FL has a transgendered daughter? really? what are the stats on this, it is just NOT common.

[VRWCmember]

Lunacy from the Toiletarian Left:

Dave Matthews Band Pledges Proceeds from NC Concert to Fight Trans Bathroom Bill

Transgender Teacher Gets $60k After Co-Workers Won’t Call Her ‘They’

Security Guard Arrested For Removing Man From Women's Bathroom

[Robert A Cook PE]

If the hotel room room door sticks, you can always force it.

But if your own house bedroom door doesn’t lock, better make sure you (and your wife) have at least jimjammies on before the toddlers force the door open at night ...

[MoochPooch]

Man, living there would give me the jimjams:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3433483/posts

I sense a revolution brewing.

[Texan5]

Hillary always plays her hand
Saying the VRWC is the one
To blame for all her troubles-
It isn’t anything she has done

But it isn’t working so well
The way it always did before-
She must be getting jimjams
As Bernie has closed the door

On that effortless coronation
Bill always said was her right-
Instead of a crown she’ll get
One nasty down-and-dirty fight...