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Word For The Day, Wednesday, 10/16/02
The Verbivores | 10/16/02 | Teacher

Posted on 10/16/2002 5:02:24 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....


stentorian \sten-TOR-ee-un\, adjective:

1. Extremely loud; powerful; as, a stentorian voice.
2. Of or pertaining to a stentor; extremely loud; powerful; as, a stentorian voice; stentorian lungs.
3. Use of the voice.

Around his family, Sergeant Charles Mingus Sr. was easily angered and often violent and closemouthed the rest of the time, except when he gave orders in a stentorian voice that carried the assumption of command.
--Gene Santoro, Myself When I Am Real: The Life and Music of Charles Mingus

Etymology: Stentorian comes from Stentor, a Greek herald in the Trojan War. According to Homer's Iliad, his voice was as loud as that of fifty men combined. Date: 1605



TOPICS: Education; Humor; Word For The Day
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To: *Students
Ok, I am off to work, I've received complaints from the short bus students about the losers at musical chairs .... please introduce those students to the Dodge Ball field.
41 posted on 10/16/2002 5:44:02 AM PDT by RikaStrom
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To: Sword_of_Gideon
the white American male is really the devil of this world & the root of all evil).

i am afraid you are, SG.

42 posted on 10/16/2002 5:49:11 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: hobbes1
The adjective you are looking for, is ENHANCE.

Ok, let me try this again:

Are you suggesting that I ruin my reputation by being closeted with the enhanced Mr. Hobbes?.......

43 posted on 10/16/2002 5:51:07 AM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
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To: xsmommy
I resemble that remark.
44 posted on 10/16/2002 6:00:33 AM PDT by Sword_of_Gideon
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA; hobbes1; xsmommy; christine; SeaDragon; Gabz; Slip18
"Are you suggesting that I ruin my reputation by being closeted with the enhanced Mr. Hobbes?.......

M'lady Whyisa ..... Your reputation would be as poor as the driven snow regardless of where you entrance him. (Or was that expression as pure as the driven snow? But I digress ...)

Hobby is enhanced because he is closeted with you in the janitor's confines .....

45 posted on 10/16/2002 6:20:24 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE
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To: RikaStrom; EODGUY; Cyber Liberty
Homework:

The French and Dutch resistance fighters of WWII created a Stentorian noise as they fired their American-built short Thompson machine guns while fighting the Nazi's with American support....

Funny that now these same people want US to surrender to terrorists in the name of international socialism.
46 posted on 10/16/2002 6:23:36 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE; hobbes1
Oh, I thought he was enhanced to entice me into the closet............
47 posted on 10/16/2002 6:44:12 AM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA; hobbes1
I think he means to entice, enbalm and entomb
48 posted on 10/16/2002 6:46:48 AM PDT by camle
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To: RikaStrom
Stentorian voices, such as the writer of this article, Learn from Prohibition, will become necessary to over turn the tide of the nanny busy bodies.
49 posted on 10/16/2002 6:53:15 AM PDT by Gabz
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To: camle
sounds like you are casting a Halloween slasher movie, camle!
50 posted on 10/16/2002 6:53:39 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy
not me! Blame the kitty and the lost taxan
51 posted on 10/16/2002 6:55:24 AM PDT by camle
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To: xsmommy; RikaStrom
morning miss rika. congrats on being featured on Some of FR's finest thread. you deserve the recognition.

Oh Good Grief - I haven't been to that thread yet - no wonder I got pinged to it!!!!!!!

52 posted on 10/16/2002 6:57:42 AM PDT by Gabz
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To: camle
Well then it is a good thing I won't go in that closet then........lol
53 posted on 10/16/2002 7:02:06 AM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
I'm a coffee virgin though.....just started drinking it this year

Apparently, you are confused between "virgin" and "neophyte." You're not the first person to make that mistake, although you are possibly the first to make it about coffee.

54 posted on 10/16/2002 7:02:19 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree
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To: xsmommy
How about a nice Crappacino?
55 posted on 10/16/2002 7:04:42 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree
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To: RikaStrom
Rain. I mean "Rain". Heavy, wet, drenching, quenching, dam-bursting, flooding, rain.
And beneath it all lies my fire wood.

Guess I'll play "Doom" instead.

56 posted on 10/16/2002 7:04:46 AM PDT by theDentist
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree
yuuuuck, truthy!
57 posted on 10/16/2002 7:05:21 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: theDentist
that's why a gas fireplace is such a wonderful invention. flip the switch and VOILA! instant fire! xspup was basking in the blaze last night and this AM!
58 posted on 10/16/2002 7:06:14 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy
Hey, I'm not making this shit stuff up.
59 posted on 10/16/2002 7:06:43 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
not with the poor kitty. just remember that the limo has privacy glass, and is soundproof....

only way anybody would know we would be inside would be the rocking....
60 posted on 10/16/2002 7:07:41 AM PDT by camle
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