Word For The Day, Tuesday 11/05/02

11/05/02

[Bella_Bru]

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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nugatory \NOO-guh-tor-ee\, adjective

1. Trifling; insignificant; inconsequential.
2. Of no force; inoperative; ineffectual.

Etymology: Nugatory comes from Latin nugatorius , from nugari , to trifle, from nugae , jests, trifles. It has nothing to do with nougat, the substance found in some candy bars.

Good Morning Class. Welcome to School!

[xsmommy]

public service maybe?

[anniegetyourgun]

I'll forego the TV dinner and make some real stuff....but that's where I'll be tonight!

Negatory on my vote being nugatory!

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Some slackers need a little nugatory treatment to be persuaded to vote correctly.

[xsmommy]

i have to retrieve xsboy from hockey practice tonight, but i am going to be scurrying home to FoxNews as fast as my little feet will carry me!

[xsmommy]

look at how cute they were

[Robert A Cook PE]

Homework:

We fully expect that democratic liars, extortionists, and cheaters (but are there any other kind of people in the national democratic party?) will go straight to hell, and not serve just a temporary time in nugatory for simple venial sins.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Hi Annie!

[white rose]

I just got back from voting, but stories like this, not to mention this, are leaving me earnestly hoping that my vote will not be rendered nugatory, particularly as I have long been convinced that my particular area of California is one of the Vote Fraud centers of the nation.

[anniegetyourgun]

ROFL!

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Destroying Rats is obligatory
So don't think your one vote is nugatory
We must counter fraud
LIke that Carnahan broad
And others who fit in that cateGore-y

[DainBramage]

Bubba Bob: "Breaker breaker one nine, ya got ya Rubber Ducky here...Anybody out there votin' demo-commie...come back"

Billy Joe Earl Bob:"Rubber Ducky ya got ya Longneck Redneck with the hammer down on I nine five...and that a big nugatory on the commie vote..come back."

[Argh]

I almost hurt myself laughing when I got to the end of the first paragraph of Mark Steyn's latest column in the National Post. Now I'm going to go back and finish it, all the while praying like mad that the Dimbulb vote is nugatory.

[xsmommy]

now if that don't beat all heck, i found HD's pic on the 'net...

[xsmommy]

Every time I type "Clintonites," my Windows spellcheck automatically corrects it to "clitoris," no doubt a droll jest on the part of some Microsoft programmer

LMAO!!!!

[Consort]

Some important but little known variations of nugatory:

nougatory — bad nougat.
nugaTory — a minor British Conservative.
newgatory — a gatory right off the assembly line.
gnugatory — an unessential member of a gnu herd.
nugatorii — the entrance to a sparsely attended Shinto Temple.
knewgaTori — having been familiar with Tori Amos.
pneugatory — an air-operated doodad.
gnugataurae — small jurassic gnus.

[CholeraJoe]

Some ballot initiatives are nugatory and some are significant.

Ballot Initiatives Span the Gamut

[SheLion]

VOTE VOTE VOTE!!!!!!!

[SheLion]

vote vote vote!!!!!

[Slip18]

Those first couple of paragraphs are enough to kill you! Thanks, Arghie!

[SheLion]

VOTE VOTE VOTE