Word For The Day, Thursday, 6/27/02

The Verbivores | 6/27/02 | Teacher

[RikaStrom]

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”. Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the “word of the day”; in a sentence. 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....

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fulminate \FUL-muh-nayt\, intransitive verb, transitive verb:
fulminates, fulminating; fulminated
fulmination, fulminator; noun
fulminatory; adjective

1. To issue or send forth decrees or censures with the assumption of supreme authority; to thunder forth menaces.
2. To thunder; hence, to make a loud, sudden noise; to detonate; to explode with a violent report.
3. To utter or send out with denunciations or censures.
4. To cause to explode.
5. An explosive salt of fulminic acid, especially fulminate of mercury
They fulminated the most hostile of all decrees. --De Quincey.

Etymology: Middle English, from Medieval Latin fulminatus, past participle of fulminare, from Latin, to strike (of lightning), from fulmin-, fulmen lightning; akin to Latin flagrare to burn. Date: 15th century.

[xsmommy]

i feel i must ask Miss Slippy where she read about putting vaseline under the fingernails to keep gardening dirt out because i read this very fact last night in...Martha Stewart's mag.... slippy????

[RikaStrom]

Why was your thread deleted??

[RikaStrom]

Very good! A+

[NeoCaveman]

Why was your thread deleted??

Multiple threads of the same great story.

[Argh]

Here's where you'll find Andrew Kenny claiming we're in for a new Ice Age, not global warming. Ah, teach, the good old days...

[RikaStrom]

ROFLMAO!

[Gabz]

yes, but unlike them slowpokes, WE have time to sit at the wet bar, have some martooni's and watch Gabz swimming in the beer vat again...

And what did I do to deserve that?????????

[NeoCaveman]

And speaking of pulled threads, the Semen thread lives.

(/chuckling to self about the 4 drink minimum for coquettes)

[RikaStrom]

Thanks.

LOL, that's ok Miss Slippy, apples aren't on my diet. :-)

[Argh]

Mark Steyn fulminates against the anti-globos.

[camle]

why nothing al all sweetie, we're all just simply relaxing, admiring the view...

[xsmommy]

one incontinent Toronto Star hack could wreak environmental devastation, threatening the delicate ecosystem of the long-toed salamander. "It's worse for the cops," said the Mountie. "Everyone has to carry out all his personal waste." I wanted to ask about the vomiting outbreak at the Nakiska perimeter camp on Monday, when 30 RCMP officers came down with food-poisoning courtesy of the summit caterers: Did each man carry out his own vomit? Did they take care not to vomit over the same environmentally protected western larch twice? Were the long-toed salamanders fleeing the vomit avalanche and stampeding down Highway 40?

that was great argh! thanks!

[xsmommy]

how are ya, gabz?

[Argh]

You're very welcome.

[RikaStrom]

Until the work demon departs, you're lucky to even get noticed! LOL

[hobbes1]

Sorry I can't exorcise the work demon...However I do great work in exercising the Libido...

[RikaStrom]

Yikes.

A+

[Gabz]

I'm ganging int there.

How about you???

[Argh]

From a collection at Slate:

[NeoCaveman]

ROTFLMAO, It's a good thing.