Posted on 05/09/2012 5:35:01 AM PDT by tioga
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”.
Cicatrix
Noun
PL: cicatrices
Adjective : Cicatricial or Cicatricose
[Middle English cicatrice, from Latin cictrx, cictrc-.]
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Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate
Since you didn’t ask, Aya Tomic and Kat Hansen are totally doable. But, in regard to your actual message - you’re right. I like the idea of trying to tie in literary eatery. Can’t be too many to pick from. However, this one ain’t worth the cutsie symmetry.
Wow! That’s taking one for the team. A+++
Looks like a left wing joint that thinks all republicans are racists. I wouldn’t walk in the door.
started by antiwar activists??? i guess i was so incensed by the LEFTWINGEDNESS of the place that i didn’t even make the literary connection to the place. it’s TOTALLY something this teacher would eat up with a spoon though, and the fact that the actual field trip is to Maryland sites and they are hauling into DC specifically to hit up this place? OMG i am still enraged.
I just love the unintended consequences of that whole attack Rush thing. A+++
See #19.
Ha!
I’m not sure I share your indignation. Looks like a hippie vegan free-range chicken restaurant, but it looks otherwise harmless.
I got distracted by the mention of hot paninis. It’s fun to say too. Also, Langston Hughes is one of the most overrated poets of the century.
I just know you can’t use a Langston 7 inch gangling wrench to remove a Finley sprocket.
Not to mention a Hughes crescent...that reminds me, I need to call the lawnmower shop. Ours is roaring like a freight train and I’m guessing the repair will be expensive.
About Busboys and Poets Busboys and Poets is a community gathering place. First established in 2005, Busboys and Poets was created by owner Anas "Andy" Shallal, an Iraqi-American artist, activist and restaurateur. After opening the flagship location at 14th and V Streets, NW (Washington, DC), the neighboring residents and the progressive community embraced Busboys, especially activists opposed to the Iraq War. Busboys and Poets is now located in four distinctive neighborhoods in the Washington Metropolitan area and is a community resource for artists, activists, writers, thinkers and dreamers.
so the fact that it is owned by Teaching for Change, which is a left wing social justice and civil rights push doesn’t make a difference to you?
Jeanette PA is rife with hippie Vegan places so the Soother is inured to such left wing activism in his eateries LMAO!!
Jeanette PA is rife with hippie Vegan places so the Soother is inured to such left wing activism in his eateries LMAO!!
Where students eat on a field trip isn’t worth getting that excited about, to me.
I thought the owner was Anas “Andy” Shallal, an Iraqi-American.
Cicatrix
Scars? Yep, I think I see the co-nnection here. One of the hired hands said he visited a woman (across the state line of course seeing there’s nothing like that around here) did sicko tricks. I thought he meant a magician show, me being 13 at the time, later I found out this hired hand got some cicatrix from daddy’s boot.
I could see a hippie-themed sports bar with lots of buxom young lasses in tie-dyed halter tops and 60s paraphernalia on the walls. There’s a million dollar idea.
Identify the target, isolate it, mock it, market it.
maybe it’s being in the public schools that has inured you to this kind of thing? we are very attuned to leftwing bias and we point it out wherever we see it, be it where a field trip lunch is held or book choices for lit class—this teacher required Nickel and Dimed for summer reading the year before last which is RIDICULOUSLY left wing, contains the F word and passages which mock Christians. Are you familiar with the premise of the book? leftwing college professor leaves her job to go and take minimum wage jobs in various parts of the country to see if she can make it. Bottom line, anyone POOR was noble, anyone with $ was a souless monster. one of the positions she took was with Merry Maids, cleaning houses. During the class discussion, xsjunior’s leftwing teacher was taken aback to discover that everyone in the class HAD A CLEANING LADY cleaning their house, and kids were recounting all the nice stuff that their families did for the cleaning ladies! LOL! what a dimwit. She teaches at a school that costs an arm and a leg and she’s amazed that the students have cleaning ladies. part of my problem with this field trip eatery is knowing full well the idealogy of the teacher who chose it.
I don’t think it has anything to do with public schools. You’re just in a much more liberal area. Which is why I’d take lunch with a grain of salt, so to speak.
My daughter’s gone to the zoo and the science center. Of course, she’s in grade school, but I wouldn’t expect there to be a “literary field trip” at any time in her schooling here.
Next week I’m chaperoning any overnight field trip at an “environmental camp,” but I expect it to be about nature and conservancy, not about polar bears and melting ice caps.
And I hope xsjr told the teacher that minimum wage jobs are for the young and inexperienced, not for grown adults with any modicum of talent.
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