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Word For The Day, Tuesday, 8/6/02
The Verbivores
| 8/6/02
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Posted on 08/06/2002 7:02:05 AM PDT 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. The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-) Practice makes perfect.....post on....
perorate \PUR-uh-rayt\, intransitive verb:
perorates, perorating; perorated
perorational; adjective
peroration; noun
1. To conclude or sum up a long discourse.
2. To speak or expound at length; to declaim.
3. To make a peroration; to harangue. [Colloq.]
Our mother favored a staccato, stand-up style; if our father could perorate, she could condense.
--Annie Dillard, "The Leg In The Christmas Stocking: What We Learned From Jokes," New York Times, December 7, 1986
Etymology: Latin peroratus, past participle of perorare to declaim at length, wind up an oration, from per- through + orare to speak. Date: 1603
TOPICS: Education; Humor; Word For The Day
KEYWORDS: 8602; students; tuesday; wordfortheday
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To: camle
can't believe you found her! R.I.P. Ingrid.
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posted on
08/06/2002 7:13:55 AM PDT
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xsmommy
To: camle
not too bad, camle, sweety.
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posted on
08/06/2002 7:14:22 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: xsmommy
looks like the old gal did pretty well for herself, travelled all the way across the briny blue.
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posted on
08/06/2002 7:15:57 AM PDT
by
camle
To: dubyaismypresident
i have decided i am in love with someone new....
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posted on
08/06/2002 7:16:19 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: RikaStrom
Al Gore's
peroration is getting more than old.
Instead, he's now the would-be messiah for the salvation of democratic capitalism. I guess the message is: Listen to Gore or your grandkids will stand Soviet-style in lines for toilet paper.
His messiah complex is so overblown that some day you may see him on Pennsylvania Avenue shouting, "Soylent Green is people."
To: Gabz
Morning Gabz, how's then house selling prospects?
To: xsmommy
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posted on
08/06/2002 7:17:23 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: xsmommy
i have decided i am in love with someone new.... you've gone from Hannity to Colmes?
To: dubyaismypresident
nope. mancow.
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posted on
08/06/2002 7:17:55 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: xsmommy
is the child yours?
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posted on
08/06/2002 7:18:17 AM PDT
by
camle
To: camle
no, meanie!
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posted on
08/06/2002 7:18:31 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: xsmommy
hee hee! well, YOU posted the pic!
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posted on
08/06/2002 7:19:03 AM PDT
by
camle
To: camle
ROTFLMAO
To: RikaStrom
I thought peroration was a Spanish word that meant dog food.
In English, it means a dashed line-----------------------
please tear on the peroration.
To: camle
Wellll A- for misspelling perorate. :-)
LOL on the barnacle boy!
To: RikaStrom
Although scientists
perorateThat the climate ain't first rate
The models they use
Need an excuse
Before they can seal our fate.
Or is perorate the number of sightings per year of a funny little man with big ears?
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posted on
08/06/2002 7:21:37 AM PDT
by
doubled
To: camle
OMG! ROFLOL!
To: xsmommy
To: RikaStrom
Perorating Princess of Prevaricated Piffle
To: xsmommy
Mancow slept with ED Hill (Donahey). EEEWWW.
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