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 come everyone who is associated with Clinton goes to jail and he and his wife don't

Aaron Tonken, fundraiser for the stars now sits in jail. Will he roll over on Hill & Bill or take one for the team?

[xsmommy]

from what i can gather, people love to hate them. i prefer loving to hate chris matthews. ; ) and if i saw any video footage of him, like that of Paris, i would have to blow my brains out...

[xsmommy]

sing little birdie, sing!

[NeoCaveman]

sing little birdie, sing!

I hope he does. Of course the fear of Akancide is a powerful deterent to telling the truth.

[Texan5]

Hope he makes like a canary-at the very least, what he says will be informative, if not useful....

[NeoCaveman]

Good morning Tex If this is true, this is hugh and series.

YOU GOT TO SEE THIS!

[thesummerwind]

I certainly have NOT ONE amatory urge for a ClINQUANT! Much the opposite, great disdain.

[NeoCaveman]

Yo summerwind, See #480 - 486

[tioga]

--those two must be sluts to the core........bj's legacy revealed... (probably why all the dem lib slutty women love him as well)

[tioga]

-and I saw the your post about lil algore, that family is very close to the clintoons on my scale........at least jeb bush and all the bush fam let the young 'uns take their lessons and grow up. too bad they don't try that with their's - may be too late, this started when he was 13??? -how old is he now?

[Texan5]

It should be interesting, and hopefully damaging for her heinous.

[tioga]

-hill in jail, this is a "too good to be true" kinda thing. Probably her pact with the evil one gives her some kind of immunity in this life...

[tioga]

morning tex!

[NeoCaveman]

Probably her pact with the evil one gives her some kind of immunity in this life...

Hildebeast sure got the best of that deal with Satan

[tioga]

satan's been around some, she may well regret her tenure on this earth in the afterlife.....

[NeoCaveman]

true.

But ain't I a handsome "devil"

:-)

[tioga]

-is that YOU? you are a busy guy!

[NeoCaveman]

It's only me when she is in Cleveland. There are others across the fruited plain who donn the masks. It really makes her royal heiness mad.

[tioga]

-I'll remember that when she breezes thru the boonies around here for the next election.

[xsmommy]

someone needs to offer to put these people in a witness protection program!