Posted on 06/11/2012 4:36:58 AM PDT by xsmommy
Word For The Day, Monday, 6/11/12
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".
faineant; adj.Howjoosaythat?
idle; indolent.
Etymology:1610s (n.), from Fr. fainéant (16c.) do-nothing, from fait, third person singular present tense of faire + néant nothing (cf. dolce far niente). As an adj., from 1855.
Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.
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Practice makes perfect.....post on....
Naah....I’m more of a FMK lister ;)
Thank you!
Good grief!
Looks like somebody got a prostate exam and didn’t even get dinner for it.
I heard something on Fox awhile ago that made me halt in the middle of making an invoice and listen-apparently, some councilperson in a town in Massachussetts wants to fine people for using profanity in public? What is that about? I guess they’ve never almost been run down on a sidewalk by a kid on a bicycle, crashed into by a shopping cart being steered by someone talking on a cell phone, or texting-or gone to a sporting event...
There is no problem another law won’t solve. The answer to EVERY PROBLEM is another law.
Unfortunately, many conservatives see the answer to every problem as more government also. Pay attention.
Reminds me of walking down a street in NYC with my children and the guys walking beside us talking loudly saying “c#2k sucker” constantly. It was the only adjective he knew apparently. At first it was shocking, then embarrassing, and just as we were getting past anger, it became kind of funny in a perverse way. Grown men who couldn’t carry on a conversation without continually using the same curse words. It kind of became a family joke and unfortunately one of our memories of NYC. I’m trying to imagine someone in MASS caring about cursing - aren’t they more interested in teaching kindergartners about anal sex?
When I was 5, my dad, mom and I were on the way to his next duty assignment, which was Ramey AFB in Puerto Rico. My dad had some leave time to burn, so took us to NYC for a few days.
We got into a cab at the airport, and on the way to the hotel, there was a big truck parked right in the middle of the street. The cabbie slowed down, and as he squeezed around it, he flipped the driver off and yelled move the f’in truck. Not the first time I’d heard that word or seen someone flip the bird-but it is still my very first memory of NYC...
I’ll be posting a little late tomorrow, I have to go get my eyes examined first thing in the AM.
you were told you would go blind..... ; )
Sounds like alcohol abuse to me.
I still think drowning them in it, and getting their clothes off is a sounder strategy.
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