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Word for the Day, Tuesday September 1, 2009

Posted on 09/01/2009 5:00:12 AM PDT by SoothingDave

Word For The Day, Tuesday, September 1, 2009



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".

shambolic [shām-bŏl'ĭk]

-adj Chiefly British slang
Disorderly or chaotic

[Probably from alteration of shambles]

-adv shambolically


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To: SoothingDave

Not heard either of those mentioned. I guess Penn State is supposedly decent. xshub just emailed me back but to quote him he said i don’t think PUKE STATE is a good fit since even I wouldn’t visit him there! he said Drexel has a good program with a coop situation similar to RIT. The impressive thing with RIT is that they have kids getting job offers from coops before they have even graduated, in the Info technology field. The other consideration is a club hockey team. i guess penn state has one and that was another reason the guy mentioned it, but so do these other schools.


101 posted on 09/01/2009 12:48:50 PM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

I mean I don’t know what an I school is.


102 posted on 09/01/2009 12:50:44 PM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave
Example of an I-school. are you aware of J schools?
103 posted on 09/01/2009 12:54:14 PM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

Yes, I’ve heard of J schools. “I school” sounds made up.

Is that what the boy is interested in? Seems to me like a lot of talking about computers, but not so much actually doing anything.


104 posted on 09/01/2009 1:04:30 PM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave

I guess you aren’t familiar with the field then. I think 100% job placement is pretty impressive and it’s something he is interested in doing. we had xshub’s IT guy over for dinner and talked to him about it. he has worked for Disney in animation, did websites for major companies before he was 20 years old [he’s only 30 now].


105 posted on 09/01/2009 1:13:19 PM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

I know what IT is, I just wasn’t up on the pretentious college references to it.

It’s not a bad field, by any means. Like any other, there are few glamorous positions and lots of drudge ones.


106 posted on 09/01/2009 1:18:03 PM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave

i am interested in him having a good shot at a job after graduation. it’s fine to have pretensions about various schools and fields, but at the end of the day it’s about earning a living and paying the rent. if it’s something he halfway enjoys doing, then that’s icing on the cake. my brother has been a petroleum engineer with 30 years on the job, who is enjoying a furlough week every 10 weeks because of obams energy policy and the poor economy.


107 posted on 09/01/2009 1:21:18 PM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

Sounds like a plan.


108 posted on 09/01/2009 1:26:21 PM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave
this guy is hilarious. he's a conservative, he's been on fox etc. he is tweaking these loons and they have no clue.
109 posted on 09/01/2009 1:29:24 PM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

The ninth.


110 posted on 09/01/2009 3:21:07 PM PDT by secret garden (Dubiety reigns here)
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To: xsmommy

My guidance counselor in HS encouraged me to apply to Quinnipiac. I looked at that nun like she was crazy. My cousin ended up going there. I mean seriously, does Quinnipiac even HAVE a football team???


111 posted on 09/01/2009 3:23:07 PM PDT by secret garden (Dubiety reigns here)
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To: SoothingDave

No doubt this guy made the airport shambolic:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2329449/posts


112 posted on 09/01/2009 4:03:39 PM PDT by MoochPooch (I'm a compassionate cynic.)
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To: xsmommy

i’m posting this using my wii. not sure when id ever do this, but i can


113 posted on 09/01/2009 4:24:06 PM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave; NeoCaveman
they better LEAVE MY MAN ALONE. Whose biznazz is it if we want to celebrate him getting out of the slam, not like he's a LIBYAN TERRORIST or something! good grief! xsbro and SIL, like most of those in the comments, would take a mafioso-bribed jimbokins over the Obam lapdog Tim Ryan.
114 posted on 09/02/2009 4:19:46 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

Beam me up!


115 posted on 09/02/2009 5:04:12 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: VRWCmember

Where for art thou, vast?


116 posted on 09/02/2009 6:35:13 AM PDT by tioga
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To: SoothingDave; tioga; xsmommy; All
New Classroom is Open!
117 posted on 09/02/2009 6:38:25 AM PDT by VRWCmember
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