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Word for the Day, Tuesday July 1, 2014

Posted on 07/01/2014 6:12:22 AM PDT by SoothingDave

Word For The Day, Tuesday July 1, 2014



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".

Yawp [yawp, yahp]

-vi
1.to utter a loud, harsh cry; to yelp, squawk, or bawl.
2. Slang. to talk noisily and foolishly or complainingly.

-n
1. a harsh cry.
2. Slang. a. raucous or querulous speech.
b. a noisy, foolish utterance.

[1300–50; Middle English yolpen; akin to yelp]

no importa [noh eem-POHR-tah ]

-phrase it doesn’t matter

No importa si llegamos tarde.

It doesn’t matter if we arrive late.


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To: secret garden

ColonOscopy.


41 posted on 07/01/2014 7:54:10 AM PDT by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: SoothingDave

are you going to Canada or is that a diff time?


42 posted on 07/01/2014 7:55:48 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: secret garden

i have an MRI done yearly to monitor the kidney malformation. i do not think an xray would demonstrate a problem and i think the consequences of a problem are severe enough that it is warranted. i think people who have problems with too much testing should look for different healthcare professionals, ones whom they are able to trust.


43 posted on 07/01/2014 7:59:28 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

But your procedure has a need. Many do not.


44 posted on 07/01/2014 8:01:18 AM PDT by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: xsmommy

We’re leaving on Sunday. Stopping off in Erie for a night on the way back. Be home on Friday.


45 posted on 07/01/2014 8:03:13 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: secret garden

Like i said, people need to be educated consumers of healthcare. My parents were not college educated and they both feared and were cowed by doctors. i am not, nor do i hold them in awe. they are a professional that i engage just as i would an accountant or a mechanic. if one don’t trust them, ie; think they are ordering unnecessary tests, then people need to find another.


46 posted on 07/01/2014 8:06:55 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: SoothingDave

should be a fun trip.


47 posted on 07/01/2014 8:11:02 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: SoothingDave

Yawp, yawp ... yup, yup, yup

48 posted on 07/01/2014 8:25:12 AM PDT by mikrofon (Martian, Martian, Martian)
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To: SoothingDave
no importa [noh eem-POHR-tah ]
-phrase it doesn’t matter

Well, if it doesn't matter what the phrase means, why post it ;?

49 posted on 07/01/2014 8:41:20 AM PDT by mikrofon (Lame WFTD Bonus)
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To: mikrofon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V04IBsz-9Wo

No comprende, it’s a riddle


50 posted on 07/01/2014 8:52:54 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: secret garden
for you : )
51 posted on 07/01/2014 9:55:22 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: SoothingDave

The fictional “war on women”
Is cynical, and probably done
By liberals to finally remove
The independence we have won

They yawp that we need help-
As if we’re unable to control
Our lives-but putting us back
On their plantation is the goal

Just shut up, Hillary and Nancy,
Sit down and rest in the shade-
You’re undoing over 40 years
Of progress that we have made...

And that is really how I feel about this phony female helplessness and victimhood being promoted-those of us who really are feminists are neither amused nor helpless-single or not, we don’t want any “help” or gender based advantage from govt...

No importa que dice Obama-es una mentira


52 posted on 07/01/2014 10:01:29 AM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree; xsmommy

“The truth is so obvious” Those words should be etched in stone...

I’m 100% in agreement with y’all-I try to be civil and reasonable, but that is a hangover from being employed as suzy social worker before I had sense enough to get a different job-it suits me better not to have anything to do with the willfully ignorant, even if is someone I’m related to...


53 posted on 07/01/2014 10:13:27 AM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: SoothingDave

we pick ORPIK.


54 posted on 07/01/2014 10:19:00 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: secret garden; xsmommy

I don’t really know much about it, but I don’t get what the deal is with those ads on TV for people with no problems to get whole body scans, shouting about how you could have this or that and could DIE if you don’t get this scan-then they put up the price-quite a lot of money, and isn’t that a big dose of radiation, too? I can see that anything is game for advertising, but aren’t those companies worried about liability down the road?


55 posted on 07/01/2014 10:20:46 AM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Texan5

I don’t know about those, but I think xshub would consider paying out of pocket for one of the heart scans. His mom died suddenly of a massive heart attack, and he’s convinced that’s how he will go.


56 posted on 07/01/2014 10:23:40 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Texan5

I personally would not worry about the radiation. as I said, I am scanned yearly to monitor a kidney malformation. I asked about the radiation and the stats according to the radiologist, do not indicate any huge problem with that amount of frequency. so a one time only scan can’t possibly be much of a worry as far as radiation.


57 posted on 07/01/2014 10:25:21 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

I have family like that too. California. Retired school teachers. My mother is gone now, but even in her last days she drove me nuts. Isn’t funny about how careful they always are about other people’s feelings, but no regard for OUR feelings? My husband’s sister (another retired teacher) is impossible.

My husband and I are both products of UC Berkeley, and my husband’s sister will call up my kids and tsk, tsk about “How is it possible that your parents went to Berkeley and came out CONSERVATIVE!” Well, I’ll tell you how. It’s from living in the belly of the beast and seeing the streets of your once quiet town run red with blood, that’s how.

We escaped CA in 1972 and never looked back. Each time I have to go back for a visit, the place makes me sick.


58 posted on 07/01/2014 10:31:46 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: xsmommy

Not so. But, there was an expression in my family that if a person was “doctoring” they weren’t long for this world. And that was true, for the most part.

I see the doctors annually, or whenever I have a problem. But, I’m not a person who runs to the doctor for every little thing.

I have (at least) 2 members of my family who were actually killed by their doctors, so I take what they say with a big fat grain of salt — a whole shaker full.


59 posted on 07/01/2014 10:35:54 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: xsmommy

Not so. But, there was an expression in my family that if a person was “doctoring” they weren’t long for this world. And that was true, for the most part.

I see the doctors annually, or whenever I have a problem. But, I’m not a person who runs to the doctor for every little thing.

I have (at least) 2 members of my family who were actually killed by their doctors, so I take what they say with a big fat grain of salt — a whole shaker full.


60 posted on 07/01/2014 10:35:54 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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