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Word For The Day, Thursday, March 11, 2004
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| 3/11/04
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Posted on 03/11/2004 5:30:29 AM PST 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....
emetic \ umet'ik\, adjective, noun
emetically; adverb
1. Causing vomiting.
2. An agent that causes vomiting
As bloody as an abattoir, as emetic as a dozen bad oysters, this is a cross between Men In Black and Invasion of the Body Snatchers but without the former's humour and the latter's social punch.
--Philip French, "Dreamcatcher," The Observer, April 27, 2003
Etymology: [Late Latin emeticos, from Greek emetikos, from emetos, vomiting, from emein, to vomit. See wem - in Indo-European Roots.]
TOPICS: Education; Humor; Poetry; Word For The Day
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To: NicknamedBob
Thanks..........I think I'll stick with the motrin - we think it's from her allergies, because hubby has been miserable as well today.........
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posted on
03/11/2004 1:53:06 PM PST
by
Gabz
(The tobacco industry doesn't pay cigarette taxes - smokers do!)
To: Laura Earl
I can understand.............
the only casualty was an area rug acording to the one-who-is-supposedly-sick-but-running-around-like-a-loon.........
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posted on
03/11/2004 1:54:35 PM PST
by
Gabz
(The tobacco industry doesn't pay cigarette taxes - smokers do!)
To: NicknamedBob
Fascinating. I've never been to that page before, and as far as changing background colors, that is my children's specialty. I have a new screen saver almost every day, thanks to them.
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posted on
03/11/2004 2:20:01 PM PST
by
secret garden
(Go Predators! Go Spurs!)
To: Gabz
I hope your daughter is feeling better and that she doesn't spread it to either of you.
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posted on
03/11/2004 2:30:33 PM PST
by
secret garden
(Go Predators! Go Spurs!)
To: RikaStrom
EWWWWWWWWWW
STop that! That's not nice! You're the one that picked the word.
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posted on
03/11/2004 2:36:07 PM PST
by
VRWCmember
(Dick Gephardt is a <a href="http://www.michaelmoore.com" target="_blank">miserable failure </a>)
To: secret garden
Thanks.....she seems to be fine....she's totally bugging hubby right now, while he is sitting trying to read.
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posted on
03/11/2004 2:38:53 PM PST
by
Gabz
(The tobacco industry doesn't pay cigarette taxes - smokers do!)
To: Gabz; All; secret garden; RikaStrom; Slip18; hobbes1; xsmommy; dubyaismypresident; ...
Whew! Not tonsillitis then. When I was 5 and got a bunch of earaches, they took out my tonsils. And used ether to put me under, a yuck I'll never forget.
But here's a story that would have been truly emetic to witness: I can tell he's Canadian by the tuque. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police always get their man (part).
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posted on
03/11/2004 2:48:44 PM PST
by
Argh
To: Argh
Yeah, but when you woke up, you got ice cream...the sedative for little kids:)
To: Argh
We get our man
We get our man
Man, we get it!
We man,get, get we are
Get with it,
Aw the heck with it man!!
RCMP according to Huckleberry Hound:)
To: international american
I haven't seen ol' Huck in decades!
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posted on
03/11/2004 2:56:49 PM PST
by
Argh
To: Argh
I have em taped! Great humor!
To: Argh
A few too many Molson's, methinks.
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posted on
03/11/2004 2:58:44 PM PST
by
CholeraJoe
(All I want to do is be more like me and be less like you.)
To: Argh
Bizarre..................
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posted on
03/11/2004 3:25:36 PM PST
by
Gabz
(The tobacco industry doesn't pay cigarette taxes - smokers do!)
To: Gabz
That's in their code. Glad she is feeling better!
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posted on
03/11/2004 3:52:05 PM PST
by
Laura Earl
(16....sweet!)
To: Argh
When I was a little kid, I had tonsillitis all the time. Well my doc advised against removing them because they were small, and he said as I got older they would shrink, and I wouldn't have problems in adulthood. The last time I had a bout was when I was 18. Nothing at all since then. And the old coot is still practicing medicine, and he is in his late 70s.
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posted on
03/11/2004 3:54:42 PM PST
by
Laura Earl
(16....sweet!)
To: Argh
OMG, arghy, me too! but i was 7, and in 2d grade. that ether smell made me hurl for DECADES after that. isn't it used on something to service/fix cars? i seem to recall my dad using something smelled like that and it was hideous.
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posted on
03/11/2004 4:04:37 PM PST
by
xsmommy
To: xsmommy
Moth balls are the grossest odor to me! I can gag when I smell them......yuk!
To: Laura Earl
"...the old coot is still practicing medicine, and he is in his late 70s." I'll bet he has heard about ear candles.
We used to use them all the time back in the twelfth century.
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posted on
03/11/2004 4:28:06 PM PST
by
NicknamedBob
("When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." -- Dr. Wayne Dyer)
To: xsmommy
How's your earlobe?
Been very busy here again. I've been thinking about your ear every single day, though. All I could think of is you having a cauliflower ear.
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posted on
03/11/2004 5:05:10 PM PST
by
Slip18
To: Slip18
Somebody besides me became a thread killer today!!! Yippee!!!
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posted on
03/11/2004 6:04:20 PM PST
by
Gabz
(The tobacco industry doesn't pay cigarette taxes - smokers do!)
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