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Word For The Day, Wednesday, July 20, 2005 - smarmy
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary ^ | 07/20/2005 | The Janitor

Posted on 07/20/2005 5:39:29 AM PDT by VRWCmember

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To: Slip18
This thread was making me all nostalgic for trafficant's hair


201 posted on 07/20/2005 4:01:41 PM PDT by Dutchgirl (Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it." --C. S. L)
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To: Argh
I'm so sorry to hear about him dying. He lived in a luxurious area in Phoenix. A lot of ball players live there.

Cyber is telling me now about pico ferrets and fifto ferrets. Is it food? He's working on his computer, so I don't think so. It has to do with curves, and how to smooth curves. Sheesh. Like I'm supposed to understand.

202 posted on 07/20/2005 4:04:00 PM PDT by Slip18
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To: Dutchgirl

Is that like when I started dating Cyber, yada, yada, yada, then we got married?


203 posted on 07/20/2005 4:06:44 PM PDT by Slip18
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To: Dutchgirl; Registered

That was one of Registered's best!


204 posted on 07/20/2005 4:10:30 PM PDT by Slip18
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To: patton
Ditto with the Mandarin Chinese I picked up in the sixties. Other than being able to curse fluently -it really has not come in handy except to thank the staff at a restaurant.

True story. As a teen I allowed myself to be "picked up" by a few members of the Royal Navy who were visiting Fort Lauderdale. I went aboard a tour of the HMS Blake and stubbed my toe on a ladder. I began to swear in Chinese, as I had gotten in the habit of doing--when several oriental men poked their heads amidship to see the source of such profanity. Apparently they ran the laundry and were not used to hearing the vessel being referred to as a "stupid long nosed monkey" and "women's genitalia."(see Souter.) Sometime's we lose things in translation.

205 posted on 07/20/2005 4:12:16 PM PDT by Dutchgirl (Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it." --C. S. L)
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To: Slip18

Unless Cyber was running around in his underwear with cardboard fig-leaves attached during his courtship, I doubt that there are any similarities. My sons tell me that Yatta is making fun of American boy bands...but you may want to "click the link" for yourself...


206 posted on 07/20/2005 4:15:31 PM PDT by Dutchgirl (Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it." --C. S. L)
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To: Dutchgirl

Exactly - like, Sammenaustossendesgassenschlampe cannot be found on babel fish.


207 posted on 07/20/2005 4:17:51 PM PDT by patton ("Fool," said my Muse to me, "look in thy heart, and write.")
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To: Slip18; IowaHawk
I would love to save this for homework, but it's too good for me to wait.
IowaHawk does it again!
208 posted on 07/20/2005 4:38:36 PM PDT by secret garden (There's no place like home!)
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To: Slip18; VRWCmember

vast says that every weds but i am rarely available to grade on days that i am not subbing bc i actually have to do my job on occasion.


209 posted on 07/20/2005 4:41:32 PM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Argh

We were just talking about tv dinners the other day - growing up in a household where Mom cooked every meal, we thought tv dinners were some big treat! (sorry Mom ) - We got tv dinners whenever my parents were going out for the evening - I still remember greasy fried chicken, meatloaf, or salisbury steak..... ;^)


210 posted on 07/20/2005 4:45:42 PM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (Prayers for healing and relief from pain for Cowboy...........)
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To: Dutchgirl
Oh, you don't know this about me. I've managed to outmaneuver (manure) Cyber. I've unhooked my speakers. I love it quiet. He would have to pull out my desk and replug them in, then redo the computer junk for speakers.

And he knows I would do it again if he fixed it. If I really want to hear something, I'll hear it on his computer when he gets home from work. I'm just weird that way.

211 posted on 07/20/2005 4:59:41 PM PDT by Slip18
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To: Dutchgirl
Oh, you don't know this about me. I've managed to outmaneuver (manure) Cyber. I've unhooked my speakers. I love it quiet. He would have to pull out my desk and replug them in, then redo the computer junk for speakers.

And he knows I would do it again if he fixed it. If I really want to hear something, I'll hear it on his computer when he gets home from work. I'm just weird that way.

After listening to attorneys for 25 years in court and being from a family of ten brothers and sisters, quiet is heaven to me.

212 posted on 07/20/2005 5:05:06 PM PDT by Slip18
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To: secret garden

It said "mainstream." I'm immediately out of there. I'm not a salmon that swims upstream, downstream or mainstream. I absolutely hate that term. It's kind of like the term "victim." Only you can make yourself a victim.


213 posted on 07/20/2005 5:09:18 PM PDT by Slip18
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To: xsmommy; VRWCmember; Argh

I don't grade on Vastie's day very often, but when it comes to Arghie, well, there you are.


214 posted on 07/20/2005 5:10:16 PM PDT by Slip18
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To: secret garden

i sent it to everyone i know!


215 posted on 07/20/2005 5:11:19 PM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Dutchgirl

How did that happen?


216 posted on 07/20/2005 5:11:36 PM PDT by Slip18
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To: Slip18

oh slippy, i am with you. i love quiet too. i love being home alone, and freeping, with the speaker volume turned off, no tv, no radio. i had such a stressful day today and xsbrownie was yammering at me after the horrendous traffic and i said, honey, my ears just need to rest, they need absolute quiet for about 15 minutes.


217 posted on 07/20/2005 5:12:48 PM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Argh; Slip18; xsmommy; WhyisaTexasgirlinPA; Texan5
Je suis inconsolable. Le bâtard. L'idée même.

I am inconsolable. The bastard. The very idea.

Why would a person do that to perfectly good food.

Seriously, this guy met a need that was not being met by the current food service. Restaurants were VERY rare in the 50's even in NYC and they had about the highest concentration of restaurants in the nation. My hat is off to him and I wish I could have met him.

'La bonne cuisine est la base du véritable bonheur.' - Auguste Escoffier
(Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.)

LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

218 posted on 07/20/2005 5:16:33 PM PDT by LonePalm (Commander and Chef)
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To: LonePalm

i have every confidence that you can and would make a killer tv dinner,should the need arise.


219 posted on 07/20/2005 5:21:12 PM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

He's a hoot, isn't he?


220 posted on 07/20/2005 5:37:31 PM PDT by secret garden (There's no place like home!)
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