Word For The Day, Monday, 9/30/02

The Verbivores | 9/30/02 | 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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precocious \pri-KOH-shus\, adjective:
precociously; adverb
precocity, precociousness; noun

1. Characterized by or characteristic of exceptionally early development or maturity (especially in mental aptitude); as, "a precocious child"; "a precocious achievement."
2. (Botany) Flowering or fruiting early.
3. 1. Ripe or mature before the proper or natural time; early or prematurely ripe or developed; as, precocious trees.

After demonstrating a precocious aptitude for music, he was sent at a young age to the Leo Miller Studio for instruction in piano.
--James T. Fisher, Dr. America: The Lives of Thomas A. Dooley, 1927-1961

Etymology: Latin praecoc-, praecox early ripening, precocious, from prae- + coquere to cook. Date: 1650

[Slip18]

Oh, it's good that you're looking around innocently.

[hobbes1]

Not I. Ask him. Gas and I have always delighted in taunting
xs, however one cant taunt someone that refuses to snatch at the bait...

[Slip18]

Is that like "bait and switch"?

[Robert A Cook PE]

Oh, I'm VERY innocent...... Never been innocenter.

Innaquarter, innadollar, innadime too.

[Slip18]

You are hysterical, Cook!

[xsmommy]

i have tried in vain to find a pic of someone with a pierced tongue sticking out for you two, but all i get are PORN SITES and they are surely going to confiscate my hard drive now....

[xsmommy]

Tiger, I believe you were biting gas on the neck

slippy, it is news to me that the tiger and gas were carrying on behind my back! well i NEVER!! now I AM the one that is JEALOUS!

[Robert A Cook PE]

Gas and I have always delighted in taunting xs, however one cant taunt someone that refuses to snatch at the bait... "

Butt what if the bait is innasnatch?

Does that make it taunter or looser? (Which is more distracting, by the way?)

(Did Luke Skywatcher's first date get Tauttoined when she was picked on?)

[Slip18]

You mean like this one?

[xsmommy]

robt, i thought of you this past weekend as i was maneuvering the behemoth Sequoia around unfamiliar suburban Pittsburgh, turning around in people's driveways, turning left on RED and even crossing over median strips to get to the other side where there was no left turn area....

[xsmommy]

who would have thought that searching google for a pic of a tongue would turn up such risque stuff....; )

[hobbes1]

Butt what if the bait is innasnatch?

If that were true, wouldn't the bate be a bi ?

[Slip18]

I know about google and some of those photos there. I actually get embarrassed. Really!

[hobbes1]

turning left on RED and even crossing over median strips to get to the other side where there was no left turn area....

That whole three rights thing, still hasn't sunk in ???

[xsmommy]

one actually DID show up and i immediately x'ed out, sure that someone would come in to haul me off somewhere for visiting a restricted site.

[xsmommy]

at 6 am, which is O'dark thirty, when there was no left out of the McD's parking lot, and i needed to get with my coffee to the rink, i figured let them sue me for crossing the median. The very next intersection was a left red signal. i figured, left on red applies at this hour of the AM, so i went. i am going to regret this scofflaw attitude with xsteen taking it all in and of drivable age in 2 years.

[Slip18]

I try to figure out google. I typed in "pierced tongue," and that was the third spot and first photo.

I suppose if you put in "tongue" first, the group KISS would have shown up.

[NeoCaveman]

Hershel Walker supporing the GOP in Georgia. The only good football news of the week.

[white rose]

I've noticed a good deal of discussion going on about that precious threesome, Messrs. McDermott, Bonior, and Thompson. Now, I am not sufficiently precocious to be able to explain what the problem is with those three weasels, but I think we may find a clue somewhere in this story.

[xsmommy]

i cannot believe that herschel walker is 40!!!! he was just a kid!!