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Word For The Day, Thursday, 8/29/02
The Verbivores | 8/29/02 | Teacher

Posted on 08/29/2002 7:05:50 AM PDT by 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....


ineluctable \in-i-LUCK-tuh-bul\, adjective:
ineluctability; noun
ineluctably; adverb

1. Impossible to avoid or evade, inevitable.
2. Not to be overcome by struggling; irresistible.

Linnaeus' classification scheme became popular not because it captured some ineluctable truth about nature. Rather, by the botanist's own admission, the system divided species based more on intuition than science, much as an art historian might group paintings into schools.
--"Cultivating a New Tree," Los Angeles Times, September 25, 1999

Etymology: Latin ineluctabilis, from in- + eluctari to struggle clear of, from ex- + luctari to struggle, wrestle; akin to Latin luxus dislocated. Date: circa 1623



TOPICS: Education; Humor; Word For The Day
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To: xsmommy; RikaStrom
Gee Miss Rika, I don't want to suggest anything, but dubya is late, and this one is even later (uncharachteristically so) and then the same HW?
61 posted on 08/29/2002 7:55:37 AM PDT by hobbes1
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To: dubyaismypresident
The doggies and I are doing a lot better. The flu is over. Those poor guys had it as badly as I did. They didn't move for two days.

This morning they were out romping around. And so am I!

62 posted on 08/29/2002 7:56:39 AM PDT by Slip18
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To: hobbes1
Tattling? Bud.
63 posted on 08/29/2002 7:56:44 AM PDT by NeoCaveman
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To: dubyaismypresident
LOL. SHE does it all the time. And since You handed in your HW first I figgrd you were above reproach, as to the pet,
Turnabout IS fair play....
64 posted on 08/29/2002 7:58:12 AM PDT by hobbes1
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To: EODGUY
"Slip, just a thought, but what if his mustache is fake and his hair is real."

Point well taken.

Perhaps, they're both fake?

My medications are on the counter. Better take them . . . LOL!

65 posted on 08/29/2002 7:58:34 AM PDT by Slip18
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To: hobbes1
Moonbeam alert.

"There are two Americas," said Jerry Brown, a former governor of California. One was "an America of isolationship and retreating from co-operation with the world" and the other was an America that was trying to reduce its impact on the global climate.

"We stand with the majority of the people in the US and the majority of people at this conference in the need to reduce poverty without harming the environment," he declared.

What a bunch of pap and pablum.

66 posted on 08/29/2002 8:01:52 AM PDT by NeoCaveman
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To: dubyaismypresident
He sure looks like Gilligan to me.
67 posted on 08/29/2002 8:01:52 AM PDT by Slip18
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To: dubyaismypresident
Have you been to Bowling Green lately?
68 posted on 08/29/2002 8:03:47 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Slip18
He sure looks like Gilligan to me.

His nickname is Dennis the Menace.


69 posted on 08/29/2002 8:04:35 AM PDT by NeoCaveman
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To: dubyaismypresident
Jerry Brown's girl friend sang him this song: "You're no good, you're no good, you're no good, you're noooooo good."

I lived in CA when he was the Guv. During his tenure his father, the former Guv, was at a Dodger game. He was attacked at knifepoint by two punks. His father did not press charges. He felt soooooo sorry for the punks.

70 posted on 08/29/2002 8:05:01 AM PDT by Slip18
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To: xsmommy
Disturbing of the piece?
71 posted on 08/29/2002 8:06:31 AM PDT by Slip18
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To: hobbes1; dubyaismypresident; RikaStrom
i would never cheat on Dubs... i mean from....; )
72 posted on 08/29/2002 8:06:43 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Slip18
lots of stories about public interruptus lately it seems to me.
73 posted on 08/29/2002 8:07:27 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy
Have you been to Bowling Green lately?

LOL. Can't say that I have. Although I will be in Cincinnati all weekend. I'm so looking forward to it (/rolling my eyes)

74 posted on 08/29/2002 8:07:33 AM PDT by NeoCaveman
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To: RikaStrom
Much as I hate to be a downer, when I read stories such as these, they merely bolster my ever-growing suspicions that the world has become ineluctably vile. I'm doubling your fun this morning by including both.

First off, our friends the Danes are slowly discovering that multiculturalism has its drawbacks.

And, of course, right here at home, I find out that pedophiles are only mentally disordered if they feel bad about what they're doing. (Check out paragraph five if you don't believe me.)

Have a nice day, kids!

75 posted on 08/29/2002 8:07:46 AM PDT by white rose
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To: dubyaismypresident; one_particular_harbour
OMG you will be across the river from OPH, ask him to be your date! he always threatens me to show up at a 6th Cir. argument in Cincinnati!
76 posted on 08/29/2002 8:08:41 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: white rose
Thanks, white rose, for Paragraph Five. I think I'll puce any moment from that one. Sheesh.
77 posted on 08/29/2002 8:10:09 AM PDT by Slip18
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To: xsmommy; dubyaismypresident; one_particular_harbour
And we'll need photos, of course.
78 posted on 08/29/2002 8:11:28 AM PDT by Slip18
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To: xsmommy
Morning pet, where have you been hiding?

A+

80 posted on 08/29/2002 8:12:14 AM PDT by RikaStrom
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