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]

ita re Bill O. haven't seen him in a month at least.

And he went ballistic when Matt Drudge called him on lying about how good his book sales were..... Go Matt.

[xsmommy]

i am proud of you for keeping after them. i told xshub and he was impressed at your stick-to-it-iveness at bringing that to their attention.

[xsmommy]

i saw in passing that there was some brouhaha between drudge and oreilly, but didn't know what it was about. Bill O lying about the volume of his sales?

[xsmommy]

Algore's little potheaded offspring got nabbed again. think that he was kicked out of St Albans for dope, now that i think about it.

[NeoCaveman]

it was an unforgettable Easter Saturday.

And the very next Wednesday (3 days?) SouthPark had it's scathing spoof of the event

[NeoCaveman]

Algore's little potheaded offspring got nabbed again. think that he was kicked out of St Albans for dope, now that i think about it.

If OwlGore was my dad, I'd get high all the time too!

[xsmommy]

i am going to have to watch that show someday... : )

[xsmommy]

al 2& al 3 probably share a bong, now and then.... ; )

[NeoCaveman]

Just don't let the kids see it. All the filthy language would warp their little minds

[NeoCaveman]

Looks like Lybia is ratting out it's little friends Iran and North Korea

[xsmommy]

i know, that is the problem with most of this stuff. i would watch but keeping the kids out of the room is next to impossible. it is also why i have not seen the Simpsons. i don't know if that is as bad or not.

[xsmommy]

i went to my beloved hairdresser for a dye job today. he loves me bc i am the most conservative of his clients and we talk politics at the top of our lungs in there. he mentioned MOO-A-MAR was spilling his guts on everyone, i hadn't been paying attention the past few days. It is pretty dang funny though. you catch one murdering despot and all of a sudden everyone's panties are in a wad and they are ready to give up the dirt!

[NeoCaveman]

it is also why i have not seen the Simpsons. i don't know if that is as bad or not.

Simpsons is pretty tame. To me anyways. Plus they are one of the only shows in which the main characters go to church as a family, reguarly.

It's not nearly in the same league as SouthPark on the offesnsiveness scale.

[NeoCaveman]

It is pretty dang funny though. you catch one murdering despot and all of a sudden everyone's panties are in a wad and they are ready to give up the dirt!

And that is the essence of the Bush Doctrine.

[xsmommy]

i know xsboy's friends watch it, but i just never allowed them to. i am interested in it though. what day and time is it even on?

[NeoCaveman]

Simpsons, Sunday at 8

[xsmommy]

what about southpark? there is NOTHING on Fox at 8pm on sundays. that is the WAR STORIES slot, if i am not mistaken.

[NeoCaveman]

South Park is Wednesdays at 10.

They really push the envelope some weeks.

but they hate liberals.

[xsmommy]

well as demure understated prim and proper as i am, i fully expect my sensibilities to be offended... but it will be fun to see lib bashing : )

[NeoCaveman]

It's official

Mike Savage has gone insane