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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.
1 posted on 07/14/2015 9:06:40 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell
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To: Louis Foxwell; xsmommy; secret garden; VRWCmember; Slip18; SoothingDave; Texan5; NicknamedBob; ...

Here is a word to sleep on. I will begin giving awards at 9AM sharp. Have your entries ready.
This is a tough one, requiring a post that demonstrates the WFTD without, necessarily, using the word.


2 posted on 07/14/2015 9:09:52 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

My dog is named Zeugma. He married Xerxes. They both hate the Alphabet, and they both hate Snoopy.


3 posted on 07/14/2015 9:14:30 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (Even the compassion of the wicked is cruel.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

In declaring that the Iran nuke deal is beneficial for America, Preezy Urkel has sold The U.S. down the river - and a false bill of goods.


4 posted on 07/14/2015 9:16:12 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: zeugma

Ping!


5 posted on 07/14/2015 9:17:22 PM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc OÂ’Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: Louis Foxwell
I bet a zeugma is really one of these!


6 posted on 07/14/2015 9:23:15 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: Louis Foxwell
In Scott Walker's Wisconsin, Obama Urges Crowd to run to Democrat-Run Paradise In Minnesota

A slight modification of the foregoing title provides "run" as a zeugma. But, it's actually a very good idea. Most of us in Wisconsin would love to see the Democrats move to Minnesota.

8 posted on 07/14/2015 9:34:53 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: Louis Foxwell; zeugma
> 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.

A proper zeugma would conflate and confuse the news of the day and of a FReeper too.

11 posted on 07/14/2015 9:39:25 PM PDT by dayglored (Meditate for twenty minutes every day, unless you are too busy, in which case meditate for an hour.)
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To: Louis Foxwell; steve86
The room was not light but his fingers were.

Thanks for the ping steve!

Zeugmas are actually harder to do correctly than most would think. Most folks think of it as a simile, but it is really a gerund with two objects which it modifies in two distinct, yet different ways.

 

 

12 posted on 07/14/2015 9:42:04 PM PDT by zeugma (The best defense against a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun)
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To: Louis Foxwell
0bama's red policies have left me red in the face.
13 posted on 07/14/2015 9:45:43 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: Louis Foxwell

Great word!


15 posted on 07/14/2015 10:00:34 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

In his quest to bring illegal immigration to the forefront, Trump will suffer neither defeat nor fool.


16 posted on 07/14/2015 10:10:12 PM PDT by Ken H
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To: Louis Foxwell

BHO made up his mind, a hash of our foreign policy, and a name for himself.


17 posted on 07/14/2015 10:13:56 PM PDT by Mad Dawg (In te, Domine, speravi: non confundar in aeternum.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

Well young man, you’ll resign from the Federal Service immediately or you are cut off!!

You are going to Zeugma Beach and that’s the end of it!!


18 posted on 07/14/2015 10:18:14 PM PDT by bakeneko
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To: Louis Foxwell

The six color flag
Is missing indigo
Which causes the loss
Of both scientific authenticity
And an unfortunately graphic description
Of what “Dey” do on a date.


21 posted on 07/15/2015 4:40:38 AM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

After years of work by Obama and Kerry, both the Iran Deal and America are finished.


22 posted on 07/15/2015 4:41:19 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (Today's Civil Rights movement: Black Lives Matter--unless they are cops.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

That Oregon bureaucrat imposes a fine and a gag order on a family of Christian small businesspeople who refused to serve a “gay” “wedding”.

Both he and those lesbian “wives” are cackling with glee about forcing them onto the street!!!!


25 posted on 07/15/2015 6:01:17 AM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: Louis Foxwell

There once was a president whose dogma
From a rational stance was an enigma.
Peaceful Iranians
Need refined Uranium?
Bombs worry us and threaten Israel, a zeugma!


28 posted on 07/15/2015 6:23:04 AM PDT by dblshot (I am John Galt.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

Liberals seem obsessed with digging the graveyard & the past:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3312126/posts

Liberals can dig the dirt but not the truth.


45 posted on 07/15/2015 7:52:53 AM PDT by MoochPooch (I'm a compassionate cynic.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

It is partly cloudy, 89 with only a light breeze-by 1:00 it was too hot and still to be working outdoors, so we left off for the day...

Hillary’s regal pretentions
Are now becoming so intense
She has lost her camouflage
Along with her common sense

With regal disdain she says
Putting her nose in the air
You will wait for my speech-
Steps into rudeness and snare

Of her very own manufacture-
An error Bill wouldn’t commit
A zeugma of both feet forward
Also putting them into s*** ...

Does that work?


53 posted on 07/15/2015 12:35:04 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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