Posted on 11/24/2004 4:49:42 AM PST by RikaStrom
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”. Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the “word of the day”; in a sentence. The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day. ;-) Practice makes perfect.....post on....
gimcrack \JIM-krak\, noun, adjective:
gimcrackery; noun
1. A trivial mechanism; a device; a toy; a pretty but useless or worthless object; a gewgaw.
2. Tastelessly showy; cheap; gaudy.
The pages in the campaign paper trail released thus far give details on what the Democrats' new category of $250,000 super-donors were explicitly promised for their largess, right down to the "exclusive lapel pin" -- a gimcrack Croix de Guerre from the Democratic National Committee.
--Francis X. Clines, "Donor Is Listed as 'Buddhist Temple' in Democratic Documents," New York Times, December 28, 1996.
Etymology: The origin of gimcrack is uncertain. It is perhaps an alteration of Middle English gibecrake, a slight or flimsy ornament.
Good Morning Students. Welcome to class!
Class is now in session. The rules are simple; you get a grade if you use the WFTD in a sentence, haiku, limerick, or quatrain. You get a "+" if you make a link, or make the teacher laugh, or you offer the appropriate bribes. I hold the grade book; the whip and chair.
Morning Kiddies
HAPPY BIRTHDAY WINONE4THEGIPPER!!!!!
Bill Clinton, John F Kerry and the rest of the liberals are a bunch of gimcrackers!
Morning!!!!!!!!
WOW - you're bright and early this morning!!!
Are you still on US soil or in parts unknown?
Morning!
Gimcrack library,
Great void literary,
Little Rock's fallen,
The faithful are bawlin,
For Bubba's in semenary!
... Devil with a blue dress,
Devil with a blue dress,
Devil with a blue dress on...
Happy Brithday WinOne4theGipper!
Isn't that the dang truth!
A+ WN
Are you going to have a relaxing holiday??
Morning Gabz, the rain finally stopped and the great hunter has already left. ;-)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY WINONE4THEGIPPER!!!!! Out of respect I will not sing!
Morning LE!
How are you this bright day?
LOL, good one MortMan. I tell you that library... what a disgrace! And it's ugly too. ppht.
A+ +
:-)
Morning Grimmy. Top 20.
Are you starting to dry out, or did you build an ark in your back yard?
Oh - so I can blame you for the rotten weather we've got here!!!!!
And the great hunter is on the hunt for what? Feathered or hoofed?
Ok, I hate to do it, but Misery Loves Company.
I have this nasty little earworm.
I'm Henry the eigth I am, Henry, the eigth, I am, I am.
I'm married to the widow next door, she's been married seven times before........
GOOOD Moooorning Ms. RikaStrom.............
Yes I am and yesterday was my birthday.
I am in Jacksonville Florida for now.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Hope you have a great one...
(from yesterday's thread) sorry about your flooding problems, we haven't had that much rain, yet!!! We're supposed to get sun by Friday - but the temp is going to drop....figgers.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING To All WFTD FReepers!
happy (belated) birthday!!!!
Bright my patootey! It's been raining here since Friday. But it is moving out today, and the temps are gonna be dropping.
We may have our first frost of the season on Friday morning.
And the same to you, my FRiend!!!!
Hoofed.
He's already gotten on deer earlier this month, he's going out with his dad and some others, hopes to get two early and come home. :-)
Morning Thingum!!
Happy belated birthday WN!!!
You are supposed to let us know that in advance! :-)
Been there with the rain. ICK
Temps are dropping fast here too. I had to turn the heater on.
We will have the heater on by the evening.
We had our first frost a couple of weeks ago. It's a wondwer everyone isn't sick with the way these temperatures are fluctuating.
hubby came into the bedroom around 7, to change into a short sleved shirt .
Gimcrack?
Corn.
And I don't care.
AH - full freezer time!!!!!
Hubby didn't get around to taking the state mandated course for first time applicants for (VA) hunting license, so we have to rely on the generosity of friends again this year.
Our weather has been crazy, and our sinuses have been haywire, but no real sickness.
N.J. dad kills robbery suspect
That is the proper use of an SUV, not some gimcrackery like riding on the beach!!!!
Morning! 45 and chilly, with a strong north wind whipping up rollers on the water till it looks more like the bay over your way than a freshwater lake-but at least it is not raining (at last).
The 'rats, we hear are suffering
From grief in numbers great
They appear to to be on suicide watch
In every mostly-blue state
Their rich gimcrack "celebrities"
Are pitching a childish fit-
They can't comprehend that if they leave here
No one would really give a s***
They don't see that their cheerleading
For the poodle's platform and lying
Would never have fooled anyone with a brain
Unless swine took off and went flying
Bill Clinton, all trailer-trash gimcrack
A white man, supporters call him black
Is enjoying his perks
While the Heinous One lurks
Her sycophants forming a dim pack
Happy Belated birthday, WN! You'd better have Whyisa add it to her list so teacher will know to have a party next time...
Haywire sinuses around here as well, along with itchy eyes, the whole 9 yards.
It's gray and raining here - but at least there is no wind and it's already 57.
Ever so slowly, the swamp is draining and beginning to resemble a back yard again.
We got up to 72 yesterday and rain, rain, rain until 5:30 or so when the sun came out for half an hour-then more rain ahead of a norther with strong winds, and the temperature had dropped to 45 within 2 hours. We may have our first freeze Friday morning, but I hope not-I have a bunch of tomatoes and peppers about to ripen...
Present (sort of, in between washing the china).
MCM, here we are!
Rika....please add MrConfettiMan to the class list. I am trying to edumacate him a bit.
I actually like both of those songs-and the rest of that one by Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels "Good golly Miss Molly, You sure like to ball, good golly Miss Molly, you sure like to ball"-but I like Little Richard's original better-nobody can scream quite like Little Richard...
As a proven gimcrack of the leftist media, why must the public endure 4+ more months of Blather before he joins his fellow-gimcracks at "60 Minutes"??
That is the proper use of an SUV, not some gimcrackery like riding on the beach!!!!
Hangs head in shame.....we LOVE to stay on the NC Outer Banks at a house that is 4x4 accessible only. Far, far up the beach. Sigh.
SUV also useful for getting out of long winding rural driveway after snow.
Ratherbiased can't possibly leave fast enough for my liking-even so, I still won't watch See BS. How is the weather over your way? It would be a chamber of commerce day up here in the hill country if it wasn't windy enough to blow a small car (like mine) over a cliff.
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