Word For The Day, Wednesday, 8/7/02

The Verbivores | 8/7/02 | 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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refulgent \rih-FUL-juhnt\, adjective:
refulgence, refulgency; noun
refulgently; adverb

1. Shining brightly; radiant.
2. Brilliant; resplendent
3. Radiating or as if radiating light

To the Renaissance, they [the Middle Ages] were nothing but a dank patch of history, a barren stretch of time between luminous antiquity and an equally refulgent present.
--Justin Davidson, "On the Record," Newsday, January 19, 1997

Etymology: Latin refulgentia, from refulgent-, refulgens, present participle of refulgEre to shine brightly, from re- + fulgEre to shine. Date: 1634

[.30Carbine]

Schools demanding drugs
Stifling refulgent jewels
Children don’t need dope

TigersEye would so agree with you!

[RikaStrom]

Did you see this? BTW

Pa. woman miscarries after judge granted permission for abortion

[.30Carbine]

Sabertooth shows refulgent
Ouroboros Falls shines.

[maxwell]

God Bless A GOAT.

[.30Carbine]

What goat should God bless? Hmmm?

[RikaStrom]

Howard wants to know if he'll get royalties for this!

Hmmmm.........

No.

[.30Carbine]

Ooops!

I mentioned you in post #203 and forgot to ping you! I apologize for the oversight.

[hobbes1]

Yes, I did......

[RikaStrom]

It's another one of the reasons I loathe public schools. If I ever have kids, they are not going to public schools.

[Argh]

Howard's response, to me, to a demand for a picture, I had to censor it slightly:

i don't want these women to have orgasms online. it may be deleterious to their marriages. i consider freerepublic a morally virtuous site. btw though, (a four letter Middle English word designating a disgusting act of lasciviousness) u

Don't worry, that's our standard way of addressing each other.

For any humour-impaired folks out there, Howard would have thought what he wrote was hilarious. (The orgasms bit wasn't bad. FR being a morally virtuous site wasn't bad, either).

By the way, Howard's a freeper named righto, but don't bother pinging him, he almost never signs on, he just lurks. He doesn't even know what a ping is.

I gotta get back to work.

[RikaStrom]

Sabertooth is a talented critter. :-)

[hobbes1]

i don't want these women to have orgasms online. it may be deleterious to their marriages.

Hey, he stole my line.

[.30Carbine]

Unlike myself, there are very few subjects that get TigersEye's hair up.
Stuffing schoolchildren full of drugs is one of them.

Me, I start shooting off at the drop of a hat!

(We really need two computers and two internet connections here!)

[maxwell]

I got more shorts than Richard F. Simmons...

[maxwell]

DAGNABBLIT

[.30Carbine]

What's up with you, max?

Did you get a grade yet today?...Cuz *I* sure haven't!

[maxwell]

electrical shorts, that is

[maxwell]

Naw I been wrestlin with this dadburned ion beam, gunlovah...

I am mad enough to SPIT. Scuze me whilst I take a smoke break

[dixie sass]

Any of us who have children, have the refulgent smile that comes over there faces when they spot someone or something that they love - why do we dim that look with drugs and teach them to hate, steal their innocence as it were? Their belief in the inate goodness of humanity. Why must it be destroyed?

[.30Carbine]

I think your career must be fascinating.

Remember that through the rough spots, buddy.

We really respect your abilities with ions!