Posted on 10/17/2014 6:07:26 AM PDT by tioga
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”.
Megillah
Noun, Slang
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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
A call came in this morning here in my village....patient throwing up blood. I guess the crew got to enact the Ebola training protocol. If the patient said yes, I just came back from Africa, then they donned the suits...probably already too late at that point. bc that is how it works. We don’t go in suited up, we wait to ask questions first.
Except now you don’t know if they were near someone who went on a plane with a contagious nurse from Dallas.
Yep....that about sums it up. Our training is already obsolete....thank you CDC.
Home from work-we finished a small job, and the customer actually paid right then and there, so I got a few groceries on the way home, including a small basket of apples from a local orchard-apples started to ripen well over a month ago, but these later ones are my favorites-much more flavor...
I guess the ebola czar’s job is
To invent megillahs that slant
The narrative to credibility
Unlike Frieden’s stupid rant
But with such a Clinton hack
Who crafts stories to suit
His current employer’s whim
The point will likely be moot
And when Obama’s polls remain
In the toilet despite the fuss
He’ll be handed his last check
As he’s thrown under that bus...
A+++ Now, I’ve got the image in my head of throwing rotten apples at O’s bus. Mmm.
Isn’t Dana Perino about 4 feet tall?
There aren’t any “offices” to speak of within over 40 miles from here-the nearest thing is one of the 2 banks that employ 4-5 people, or an insurance office that has 2-but the women and the men wear jeans, casual shirts and boots/shoes. Let the outfit match the customer base-and this is hardly NYC. The retail business workers dress the same way, just like all the customers.
When I was a comp casemanager, my first boss insisted on dresses or skirts and heels at work-the second boss was more sensible, thank God and okay with denim and boots, especially at an employer’s workplace-one of our biggest customers was UP railroad, and that would have been a miserable jobsite modification survey to do in heels and a skirt ...
I don’t wish that disease on anyone, either-there are many legal ways to punish people for wrongdoing that don’t hurt the innocent-and I just bet a cloud of lawsuits will be hovering as soon as the disease is contained or a vaccine is developed.
Well, maybe rotten apples-but the ones I got are all good, so I’m not about to waste them on a lying politician-and a cake would be more fun to throw...
I do laugh sometimes at the shoes Kimberly Guilfoyle wears on "The Five" - my Mother said they must be wardrobe of Fox because there is one pair she seems to wear often and no way she could walk in them!
It’s a gorgeous night for football, about 70 degrees right now. We’ll be lucky to get to 50 this weekend, but it’s great now.
I went road tripping for an away game in a little burg about 45 minutes away. It’s a small stadium and a small parking lot. So they are just jamming them in. No one is leaving early.
It looks like we brought as many fans as the home team.
Well down here in “little mexico” we have to worry about hepatitus and other third world diseases since so many food workers are now illegals. So I see how quickly ebola could spread in a city due to mass transit and restaurants
An opening chapter of Stephen King’s “The Stand” is both chilling and banal in how it describes the transmission of “Captain Trips,” the popular name for the plague in the novel.
She probably kicks them off as soon as the show is over and slips them back on the next day. LOL
HepC would be a concern of mine, too. I have seen what it does long term on the human body. Scary stuff.
Sounds like great weather-it is a bit warmer here now-82 and overcast, and it was 60 last night, where it has been 45-55 the past few nights.
You could not even pay me to eat at a restaurant in a city of any size, no matter how fancy or delicious the food was-I sometimes buy a pita or sandwich at the deli in the nearest town to take home for dinner, but I know just about everybody, and there are no illegals.
It is just wrong and ridiculous for us to have to be concerned about eating establishments and transportation-this is the USA, not a village in S. America. I pray for a return to normal soon-and I’m perfectly willing to do whatever to get it here faster...
I live in a new area - everything is new, including grocery stores and restaurants. I still look at the folks working to decide if I will ever return. The disgusting health dept reports from Houston would tend to make you wonder how any sane person could eat there!
I don’t think anything new has been built other than houses out here in quite awhile, but about 14 years ago, everyone voted for major restrictions on development in this county, to keep natural resources for people who live here and for agriculture, and to keep out the developers who were spoiling everything-they are never wanted back.
One dude ranch with condos and water features wastes so much water that they are now on the carpet in court, getting smacked down by the river authority and others. They will have to conserve like every rancher and other business or shut down-and their neighbors will be glad to see them go.
There are less than 19,000 people in this whole county, and the county seat is the only real town-it has less than 1000 people-so any kind of sizeable industry isn’t exactly sustainable around here...
Sometimes when I watch the 10pm network news,I see a feature about health department scoring of different restaurants in SA-and it is disgusting for sure-rats, roaches, ancient leftovers-another good reason not to eat there...
What is it about the people who contracted ebola-after exposure, they nonchalantly went off on trips that a lot of us, including me can’t afford, and certainly would not go on after being exposed to a deadly communicable disease. I guess one of the early symptoms must be the uncontrollable urge to buy a ticket and get on a plane, cruise ship, etc...
The county Pittsburgh is in is supposed to start giving restaurants letter grades versus just having pass/fail inspections. All the restauraters are up in arms cause they figure no one will want to go to a place with a big “B” or “C” on the door.
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