Word For The Day, Friday, December 19, 2003

The Verbivores | 12/19/03 | Teacher

[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....

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amatory \ah*meh*tow*ree\, adjective:
amatorious; adjective
amatoriously; adverb
amatoriousness; noun

1. Pertaining to, producing, or expressing, sexual love; as, amatory potions. [Obs.]
2. Expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance

The Autumnal Recrudescence of the Amatory Urge

When the birds are cacaphonic in the trees and on the verge
Of the fields in mid-October when the cold is like a scourge.
It is not delight in winter that makes feathered voices surge,
But autumnal recrudescence of the amatory urge.

When the frost is on the punkin' and when leaf and branch diverge,
Birds with hormones reawakened sing a paean, not a dirge.
What's the reason for their warbling? Why on earth this late-year splurge?
The autumnal recrudescence of the amatory urge.

--Susan Stiles, copyright December 1973

Etymology [Latin am t rius, from am tor, lover. See amateur.]

[NeoCaveman]

How's the car? :-)

It was the alternator. I got to give them my gambling winnings that I collected Tuesday if I want my car back.

[xsmommy]

i have no way to work the WFTD into this story, but GOOD GRIEF can you believe THIS?

[VRWCmember]

I'm off from work today (for the rest of the year actually). In a few minutes I'll take VRWCboy to school, then run a few errands. Both boys have early dismissal from school today and we already have our tickets to go see LOTR ROTK this afternoon.

Whooo hooo!

If I don't make it back in here before then, I wish all of you a very Merry CHRISTmas and a happy new year.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Hope it catches on.

[hobbes1]

Enjoy the Show. Wolfgang dug it.

[xsmommy]

merry christmas Vast, hope you have a wonderful holiday with your family!

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

That pinata thread is too funny.....did you see this comment?

Feliz Knot-vidad!!! 6 posted on 12/19/2003 8:47:40 AM EST by Joe 6-pack

[xsmommy]

LMAO! No i didn't see that, joe, you jagoff you! good one : )

[xsmommy]

hey CG, i am thinking it is a full on Darwin EPIDEMIC....

[hobbes1]

You know, there is a very thin line, between shall we say, putting a paper plate on the stove, and starting the burner, and winding up a Darwin candidate.....

[NeoCaveman]

hey CG, i am thinking it is a full on Darwin EPIDEMIC....

Last minute nominees trying to get in by the end of the year. The motion picture industry does the same thing for the Academy Awards.

[xsmommy]

KMA

[hobbes1]

Seriesly, the kind of people that do things like that, are the same ones you find driving into parked cars, in their own driveway FCOL.

[Conspiracy Guy]

I have a toilet ghost!

[xsmommy]

i am wishing you dead about now...

[xsmommy]

throw a bomb down it, quick...

[hobbes1]

OR even better, Driving their cars into their garages.....Literally.

[xsmommy]

you are an incredible jA.

[hobbes1]

i am wishing you dead about now...

Does that mean you'll invite me over the next time you... Put something on the stove....

LOL.... ; )

[NeoCaveman]

I have a toilet ghost!

Really? I think I have a demonically possesed coffee maker.