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Word for the Day, Tuesday March 31, 2015

Posted on 03/31/2015 5:17:50 AM PDT by SoothingDave

Word For The Day, Tuesday March 31, 2015



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".

paramnesia [par-am-nee-zhuh]

-n
1. Psychiatry. a distortion of memory in which fact and fantasy are confused.
2. the inability to recall the correct meaning of a word.

[1885-90; < New Latin; see par-, amnesia]


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1 posted on 03/31/2015 5:17:50 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: Fierce Allegiance; Jack Deth; K4Harty; miskie; Dutchgirl; cardinal4; MoochPooch; NeoCaveman; ...

Out like a lamb?


2 posted on 03/31/2015 5:18:21 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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US marshals must have been suffering paramnesia to allow private security guards to take over guarding this guy! The woman at Starbucks informed me of this first thing, it didn't interfere with my commute because I take Lee Highway in and not Rte 50, but xsteen and I just looked at the INOVA Fairfax daycare center as a potential spot for xsgrandbaby next fall, and it would be TERRIFYING to have a child in that daycare with a convict on the loose!
3 posted on 03/31/2015 5:21:32 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: SoothingDave

Clearly, you have a paramnesia when you acquire a second mnesium.


4 posted on 03/31/2015 5:21:41 AM PDT by SAJ
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To: SoothingDave

guy i knew went for a swim in teh amazon and was eaten by paramnesias.


5 posted on 03/31/2015 5:29:38 AM PDT by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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To: xsmommy

Meanwhile, dahn the Sahside...

http://www.post-gazette.com/local/city/2015/03/29/4-face-charges-after-late-night-South-Side-fights/stories/201503290206

When the fight between Mr. Blodgett and a bar employee spilled into Carson Street, officers responded and arrested Mr. Blodgett. They found a bag of frozen sliced potatoes in his right pants leg, and a frozen bag of Mrs. T’s Pierogies in his left pants leg, according to the criminal complaint against him.


6 posted on 03/31/2015 5:31:36 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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While police were arresting Mr. Willis, Destinee Knox, 23, of Washington, Pa., approached him, and “continued to interfere with an official police investigation,” according to the complaint against her. She tried, but failed, to kick Officer Vozza, and resisted arrest, according to the complaint.

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And, as i noted on Twitter, I thought it was opportunity that knocks.


7 posted on 03/31/2015 5:32:25 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave
"a distortion of memory in which fact and fantasy are confused."

Run!

It's a stampede!

8 posted on 03/31/2015 5:33:03 AM PDT by NicknamedBob (I could win the Lottery! It only slightly skews the odds against me somewhat that I don't play.)
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To: SoothingDave

I had to read that twice - I thought it said that “Psychiatry” was a distortion of memory in which fact and fantasy are confused.

Which is quite often true...


9 posted on 03/31/2015 5:35:39 AM PDT by Old Sarge (Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
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To: SoothingDave
"I thought it was opportunity that knocks."

You were right; opportunity knocks.

But destiny kicks.

10 posted on 03/31/2015 5:36:58 AM PDT by NicknamedBob (I could win the Lottery! It only slightly skews the odds against me somewhat that I don't play.)
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To: SoothingDave
perhaps a natural dirt nap in the offing for Mumia?
11 posted on 03/31/2015 5:39:36 AM PDT by xsmommy
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spurred by the theft of potato products

I would have said PURLOINED POTATO PRODUCTS but that's just me... ; )

12 posted on 03/31/2015 5:41:18 AM PDT by xsmommy
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Since they were in his pants, next to his loins, that is a good one!


13 posted on 03/31/2015 5:46:28 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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do you love pierogies enough to steal them???


14 posted on 03/31/2015 5:49:01 AM PDT by xsmommy
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If I were to steal frozen food from a bar kitchen and the employees were telling me it’s closing time and time to leave, I would not fight them to try to stay.

He botched the entire “getaway” concept.


15 posted on 03/31/2015 5:51:32 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave
Bill Clinton exhibited massive paramnesia about "is"...
16 posted on 03/31/2015 5:54:02 AM PDT by JRios1968 (I'm guttery and trashy, with a hint of lemon. - Laz)
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To: SoothingDave

Obama shot a 172 in his last round of golf. He remembers it as 72, in a particularly eggregious case of paramnesia.


17 posted on 03/31/2015 6:05:17 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (Islamists are excused from their crimes because of The Crusades. Moral equivalence in action.)
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To: SoothingDave

Well, I thought it was Parmesan Cheese - so good in many meals. LOL


18 posted on 03/31/2015 6:06:08 AM PDT by Soaring Feather (This time the poetry does not write itself.)
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To: SoothingDave
yeah well, just be sure not to eat all the dang salsa!
19 posted on 03/31/2015 6:18:37 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: SoothingDave
2. the inability to recall the correct meaning of a word.

Several members of WFTD seem to suffer from Paramnesia! LOL

20 posted on 03/31/2015 7:04:31 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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