Posted on 12/05/2013 4:33:58 AM PST by secret garden
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".
slumgullion \sluhm-GUHL-yuhn, SLUHM-guhl-\, noun
1. a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
2. a beverage made weak or thin, as watery tea, coffee, or the like.
3. the refuse from processing whale carcasses.
4. a reddish, muddy deposit in mining sluices.
Example sentences:
"...d'yever eat good old fashioned slumgullion boy, 'taint nothin but scrambled eggs and potatoes all scrambled up together."
-- Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums, 1958
We could not eat the bread or the meat, nor drink the "slumgullion."
-- Mark Twain, Roughing It, 1872
Etymology:
Slumgullion is an Americanism dating back to the 1840s. It is perhaps related to the word cullion, which comes from the Latin term meaning "bag" or "testicle."
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day. The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....
Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate
WFB's attempt to emulate us ; ) No pushing at the door please!
Indeed. No one cares about the guy whose marginal productivity is below the state mandated minimum wage.
Eh, if they were protesting at Greengate, maybe I’d go have a laugh at ‘em.
i worked at the Burger King in Plum Boro during college and even for a few months after graduation. Working there and at Joseph Horne’s was how i saved the $ to move to DC, where i eventually got a job as a paralegal.
If it’s true, at least it is being recognized that he has a problem.
that would be a relief of sorts.
How sweet.
I am wondering if you think your two dogs bond with each other over you? Buffy is devoted to us, yet I wonder if we should get another dog. Hmm.
Perhaps, he really has nothing to say, isn’t that bright and everything backfires on him.
Fact of the matter is, there will always be the poor. Does not matter what economic plan there is. The USSR and China live the soviet life, yet there are poor. We live in a free market, yet there are still poor. The biggest difference I can see is in the free market they have a better chance of bettering themselves. Free market = free choice. Just the freedom God himself gave us when He gave us our free will.
God forbid we let a free man, determine what his productivity is worth.
I could see in the days of the “company town” having some say in setting minimum wages and things like worker’s comp. Even then, it would seem a union would be better than the law in determining conditions.
There are lots of choices today and no one is stuck working in the town mill or mine.
FrBrian was saying last night that the paper released by PopeF may bear his name but much of it was written by PopeB. He said you can tell who wrote what as PopeB is a brilliant scholar and PopeF is, well PopeF. I wanted to ROAR with laughter, but I held it inside.
Sounds good to me. A+ for you!
I believe virtually everything I read, and I think that is what makes me more of a selective human than someone who doesn’t believe anything.
Also...
5. a mountain pass in Colorado, near Lake City, so named for an act of cannibalism by a prospector named Alfred Packer who survived the winter of 1873-74 in the San Juan Mountains by murdering then consuming the remains of his five compatriots.
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