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Word For The Day, Thursday, March 11, 2004
The Verbivores
| 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: RikaStrom
I guess we should change the standard FR BARF ALERT to an emetic alert!!!!
that would realy gets the libs in a frenzy.
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posted on
03/11/2004 6:36:11 AM PST
by
Gabz
(The tobacco industry doesn't pay cigarette taxes - smokers do!)
To: xsmommy
Ewwww! I'm wiping my keyboard and monitor down with Clorox disinfectant wipes right now...
42
posted on
03/11/2004 6:39:41 AM PST
by
Texan5
(You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line...)
To: CSM
oh no, i sympathize. doggy puke in the AM is NOT FUN!
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posted on
03/11/2004 6:40:04 AM PST
by
xsmommy
To: NicknamedBob
Nice poems, Bob!
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posted on
03/11/2004 6:41:13 AM PST
by
Texan5
(You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line...)
To: xsmommy
Now that was a funny link XS....... so the internet is the new Gay bar?
To: xsmommy
It was actually kinda funny. It occured while I was in the shower and she usually lays on my bed. Instead, she came into the bathroom and layed on the bath rug. I had to balance and dry off in all sorts of odd stances to avoid stepping on her. When I went to get dressed I discovered why she wouldn't go in the bedroom!
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posted on
03/11/2004 6:43:14 AM PST
by
CSM
(Vote Kerry! Boil the Frog! Speed up the 2nd Revolution!)
To: xsmommy; CSM
Doggie puke is never fun, but morning incidents thereof are particularly bad.
47
posted on
03/11/2004 6:43:47 AM PST
by
Texan5
(You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line...)
To: CSM
OMG in your bedroom????
48
posted on
03/11/2004 6:45:24 AM PST
by
xsmommy
To: CSM
You have my complete sympathies.
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posted on
03/11/2004 6:48:48 AM PST
by
Gabz
(The tobacco industry doesn't pay cigarette taxes - smokers do!)
To: RikaStrom
My eyes won't open and I'm not sure if it's morning or not!!
50
posted on
03/11/2004 6:51:02 AM PST
by
dixie sass
(FReep A.N.S.W.E.R. - MARCH 20 IN FAYETTEVILLE, N.C.)
To: RikaStrom
Hi. Sorry I'm late. I've been in since 4:45 this morning, but work work work. I don't know what the heck's with the Stock Market this week, but it's so emetic that Kerry may score points when he said the economy is near death.
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posted on
03/11/2004 6:52:55 AM PST
by
theDentist
(Boston: So much Liberty, you can buy a Politician already owned by someone else.)
To: RikaStrom; All
Kerry's little snafu with the open mic yesterday could be described as emetic, now couldn't it?
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posted on
03/11/2004 6:53:03 AM PST
by
dixie sass
(FReep A.N.S.W.E.R. - MARCH 20 IN FAYETTEVILLE, N.C.)
To: RikaStrom
The 'Kerry must go' campaign has started. I heard that his military records indicate that two purplr heart wounds were self inflicted. Soon you will see the emetic image of Hillary offering to pick up the pieces. This was all so easy to predict.
53
posted on
03/11/2004 6:55:35 AM PST
by
1smallVoice
(Clinton brought us Bush)
To: dixie sass
I haven't seen the news, or any television for that matter, since early yesterday afternoon - what did horseface do?????
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posted on
03/11/2004 6:59:12 AM PST
by
Gabz
(The tobacco industry doesn't pay cigarette taxes - smokers do!)
To: Gabz
Lol, had an open mic and called the President and all his people, crooks, liars, and I believe thieves. Kerry is not a nice man. I hope that someone washed his mouth out with soap!
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posted on
03/11/2004 7:04:08 AM PST
by
dixie sass
(FReep A.N.S.W.E.R. - MARCH 20 IN FAYETTEVILLE, N.C.)
To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
"...an opus from you would make me emetic...." Gosh, Thanks! (Shuffles feet...) I don't know what to say!
Yes, I do ... (Clears throat) ...
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posted on
03/11/2004 7:08:02 AM PST
by
NicknamedBob
("When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." -- Dr. Wayne Dyer)
To: 1smallVoice
You mean the shell fragments injury to the eye was EGGshell? Frank Burns pulled that one in the Korean War.
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posted on
03/11/2004 7:09:24 AM PST
by
Laura Earl
(16....sweet!)
To: NicknamedBob
Good one!!
To: xsmommy
"OMG in your bedroom????"
Yep, the good thing is that she kept it to the comfortor! I have a dark colored comfortor, so the chance of a visible stain is remote. I had just cleaned the carpet so the comfortor was good!
She got a milkbone later and proved to be the iron gut I thought she was!
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posted on
03/11/2004 7:09:43 AM PST
by
CSM
(Vote Kerry! Boil the Frog! Speed up the 2nd Revolution!)
To: dixie sass
and after the soap use some duct tape.
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posted on
03/11/2004 7:09:50 AM PST
by
Gabz
(The tobacco industry doesn't pay cigarette taxes - smokers do!)
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