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Word For The Day, Tuesday, August 5, 2003
The Verbivores | 8/5/03 | Teacher

Posted on 08/05/2003 5:20:19 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. Practice makes perfect.....post on....


blithe \blyth\, adjective
blither, blithest; adjective
blithely; adverb
blitheness; noun

1. Carefree and lighthearted.
2. Lacking or showing a lack of due concern; casual.

The blithe sounds of festal music. --Prescott.
A daughter fair, So buxom, blithe, and debonair. --Milton.

Etymology: [Middle English, from Old English bl the.]


TOPICS: Education; Humor; Poetry; Word For The Day
KEYWORDS: august52003; students; tuesday; wftd; wordfortheday
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To: xsmommy
My brother used to put bananas on cheese and bologna sandwiches-now THAT is aberrant taste in flavor combinations. For years I was convinced that he had no functioning taste buds, but he finally quit eating weird stuff like that when he was about 15. I still tease him about it, though.
101 posted on 08/05/2003 8:32:09 AM PDT by Texan5
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To: TheGrimReaper; xsmommy; RikaStrom; hobbes1
Blithely I go along,
go along
go along
blithely I go along
And shovel lots a dirt.

How the heck did that song get in my head?

xs, I see you're baiting Tiger again. Naughty girl!

102 posted on 08/05/2003 8:34:38 AM PDT by Slip18
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To: TheGrimReaper
Or "Omar the Tentmaker"?
103 posted on 08/05/2003 8:35:04 AM PDT by Texan5
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To: Slip18
i am SOOOOO falsely accused!
104 posted on 08/05/2003 8:35:46 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy
I thought abberance was the rule. C'est la vie!
105 posted on 08/05/2003 8:36:25 AM PDT by theDentist (Liberals can sugarcoat sh** all they want. I'm not biting.)
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To: xsmommy; hobbes1
I saw Tiger respond to the allegation of your taunting him, but he didn't respond in his normal way. Has the cat got the Tiger's tongue?
106 posted on 08/05/2003 8:37:46 AM PDT by Slip18
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To: Gabz
OMG, gabz, look at this. not only do gays need their own highschools, now they must have separate anti-smoking ads to target them!
107 posted on 08/05/2003 8:38:03 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Slip18; hobbes1
i have no idea what the Tiger's problem has been, you guys have at him and let him speak for HIS OWN SEF....
108 posted on 08/05/2003 8:38:51 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy
Why Do Gays Smoke So Much?

Because they have a need to suck on something?

109 posted on 08/05/2003 8:39:41 AM PDT by Slip18
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To: Slip18
I don't know, but now you've put it in mine. I think I'll try to exchage it for something a bit more cheerful so I don't put any cynical stuff into this bid I'm working on. The customer isn't one of my favorites as it is....
110 posted on 08/05/2003 8:39:42 AM PDT by Texan5
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To: Slip18
OMG slippy. but you know, there may be a kernel of truth to that ORAL FIXATION aspect....
111 posted on 08/05/2003 8:40:34 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Texan5
I'm shoveling around in the new garden bed. Had to take a break for a bit. That song just kept going through my head, only it was with "merrily." When I read the WFTD, it just fit. LOL!
112 posted on 08/05/2003 8:41:47 AM PDT by Slip18
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To: xsmommy
but you know, there may be a kernel of truth to that ORAL FIXATION aspect....

If anyone would know....

113 posted on 08/05/2003 8:43:54 AM PDT by hobbes1 ( Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
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To: xsmommy
Imagining ads targeting gays does not present a pretty picture.....
114 posted on 08/05/2003 8:44:05 AM PDT by Texan5
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To: hobbes1
hm
115 posted on 08/05/2003 8:44:55 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Texan5; Slip18
read slippy's post 109 and imagine such an ad.... eeeeuuuuuuuwwww....
116 posted on 08/05/2003 8:45:41 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Slip18
so slippy, you didn't answer me yesterday...did the kitchen table see any action since you guys are BOT-free this week? ; )
117 posted on 08/05/2003 8:48:08 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy; Slip18
Gah! Nasty visual-I don't think I want any lunch today-and maybe no dinner, either.
118 posted on 08/05/2003 8:49:24 AM PDT by Texan5
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To: Texan5
Gah!

i have not heard that epithet, save from the mouth of my good friend who lives down in Lake Jackson, TX!

119 posted on 08/05/2003 8:51:22 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Texan5
I find a white female rapper as disturbing as a Christian lesbian. i do not see anywhere in her article, how she reconciles her lifestyle choice with Scipture.
120 posted on 08/05/2003 9:04:28 AM PDT by xsmommy
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