Posted on 06/23/2008 6:14:10 AM PDT by xsmommy
Word For The Day, Monday, 6/23/08
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".
spavined ; adjective
1. suffering from or affected with spavin. 2. being of or marked by a decrepit or broken-down condition: a spavined old school bus abandoned in a field
Etymology: Origin: 1400–50; late ME spaveyned. See spavin, -ed3]
Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.
The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....
Here is my example with WFTD.
The spavined MSM eulogizes its own irrelvance.
Review Threads:
Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish (Be SURE to check out posts #92 and #111 on this thread!)
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate
No pushing at the door please!
yeah i’m late, what about it? ; )
Jimmy Carter is the most spavined ex-president in history.
IADT
Are you using old spavined coffee-grounds this morning, or is it just because it’s Monday?
A++ lingering way beyond time for his dirt nap and irking the crap out of me daily!
xsboy begins the college prep program at G’town U this AM and xsbrownie reported for duty as camp counselor at Army Navy CC, so we are getting into a new routine starting today.
nope, i stopped at the Barista across the street for my brew this AM and i saw him grind the beans. A++
spavined SOCIALIST policies! A++ it took my breath away to #1 hear Maxine Waters suggest such a thing and #2 hear poll results that gave a hefty % of americans in favor of such nationalization. GOOD LORD that is scary.
I planted grapes near my arbor, now its completely grapespavined.
you gonna stomp them for wine? ; ) A++
vast lives near Grapespavined, TX!
You may request a private area for your personal screening
But if you suggest to the pretty young TSA'er that she touch your privates, they get all upset.
Go figure.
where in the WORLD did you find a pretty young TSA’er??? never come across anyone that didn’t look like they’d like to tear you open and eat your innards, in all my travels!
hinchey, now waters.......the tide has turned.....they are outing themselves as fools.
Methinks you’re missing the point.
you didn’t actually suggest such a thing or you’d be sitting in the slam somewhere, i figure.
A++ he’s hideous.
I see lots of spavined old coots in the news....brokaw is to host meet the press and george carlin died.
A++ extra credit, yeah i heard both those things. carlin wsa pretty young only 71?
I always hated definitions like that.
Reminds me of the looks we got from a Spanish teacher when we asked what "decadencia" meant. She was aghast that we didn't know it meant "decadence". (Not being an English teacher, we didn't bother with the next question ... and, no, apparantly no one was carrying a dictionary other than one for translation)
When the diva pens her next fake autobiography, she will reach for her bottle of brandy, a nip saved for just such a melancholy occasion. Out of the corner of her eye, a van spied, carrying Obama and his contingent to the next rally. At the rally, the “hope and change”din paves the way for this lackluster, inexperienced candidate to take the final step to the prize that should have been hers.
many times words have a medical definition and then one used in common parlance. i kind of thought that spavined was a veterarian type definition and #2 was common parlance.
i hope you were a little kid when you didn't know what decadence was!
excellent!!! A+++
-are you kidding? I am amazed he lived that long considering the drugs he must have done. You would not believe the young guys I see who look 20 years older than they are from that kind of a lifestyle.
Took in a guy yesterday....local frequent flyer, drunk, found on the roadside passed out. Cop 2109ed him, the guy had checked himself out of rehab from his trip in last Sunday this Sunday morning. 3 40oz beers later he can’t wake up, can’t walk without assistance......and back he goes...and was he ever pissed off. Bottom line - he looked not a day under 70 and he was actually in his fifties.
two words, ted kennedy.
-when they bond with the devil they defy all the odds. You are right.
Not everyone that NEEDS help, WANTS help. You gotta want it for it to work.
You’re early for me. LOL!
Exactly the triage nurse’s rant. First, I got it taken out on ME for calling in the report....THEN when we got there she ranted about this guy who is a career alcoholic, when they get the young ones, early 20s or younger they do not admit them to their rehab....it’s her contention that they can still be helped and this guy won’t....she said a drunk was the last thing she needed out in the waiting room....can’t blame her there. I was off duty in fifteen minutes when I caught this call....we left him surrounded by hospital security all gloved up....what a sight.
I’m not a spavined individual, but I do feel decrepit.
I didn’t realize how many little things needed to be done around here. There’s more but it’s been nine days of over 110 degrees. Today will be Day Ten.
Have to put everything away except for two small paint cans. I’ll probably put the wrong ones away. Decrepit is right.
But everything is just wonderful. LOL!
Poor Jimma. He's still has a lot of time to mess up more of our history.
don’t envy you your heat, slippy. though the temps are in the mid 80s here, it has been horribly humid. last week there was no humidity, same temps, and it was gorgeous.
not anymore, they closed the one en route to my ofc!! :(
Are you having a party or crying that all of the young ‘uns are back out of the house?
actually i am feeling badly for xspups who are back to spending a big chunk o time in the laundry room, instead of having the run of the house.
thanks, slippy : )
For the record, during my several thousand hours of ER work, I never once said a cross word to Paramedics or EMTs. It just wasn’t done. If they had screwed up, I filed an incident report and let the superiors take corrective action.
Democrats want to socialize everything. Even O’Reilly is making me angry. So now it’s the traders fault for the oil prices. I think it’s a tad bit more serious than that. No, it’s not that we have had any nuclear plants built, or oil wells built or gas refineries built in more than a decade. There’s plenty of oil here in the US, but we’re not using it. Don’t even get me going on ANWR.
Everyone is afraid of the Greenies. Why?
What happened to Dunkin’ Donuts?
Great one, pipecorp.
That’s my next project, a grape arbor.
The tomatoes got tamataspavined during this heat. I’ll have another chance with the tamatas, but it’s going to be a couple of weeks after the monsoon season starts.
Oh, that’s a screamer!
Sue. Why not?
Good to be home?
I think xs hit the nail on the head.
He was the first Black President, as I recall him saying.
He doesn’t look right for some reason.
I liked George Carlin in the early days. May God rest his soul.
This was his third or four heart attack . . .
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