Word For The Day, Thursday 11/07/02

The Verbivores | 11/07/02

[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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trammel\TRAM-uhl, noun:

1.A kind of net for catching birds, fish, etc.
2. A kind of shackle used for making a horse amble.
3. Something that impedes activity, progress, or freedom, as a net or shackle.
4. An iron hook of various forms and sizes, used for handing kettles and other vessels over the fire.
5. An instrument for drawing ellipses.
6. An instrument for aligning or adjusting parts of a machine.

As a transitive verb:
1. To entangle, as in a net; to enmesh.
2. To hamper; to hinder the activity, progress, or freedom of.

Etymology: Trammel is from Old French tramail, from Late Latin tremaculum, a kind of net for catching fish, from Latin tres, "three" + macula, "a mesh."

Good Morning Class. Welcome to School!

[CholeraJoe]

Boys will be boys.

[xsmommy]

boys will be BEATEN in the xshouse for that crap.

[xsmommy]

i am an excellent motivator Ceej. xsboy was bawling, i was bawling. it was a complete freeforall. i think he will be all straightened up in class on monday. xsboy can't stand to see me cry!

[CholeraJoe]

What did he do to garner such ire from the teacher and you?

[xsmommy]

other parents are asking that their kids be moved away from him, in the classroom, because he is talking and making them goof off. The word screw-off comes to mind. his father was livid. you cannot have a class clown born to 2 nerds, it just doesn't WORK!

[xsmommy]

the teacher was pretty offhand about the whole thing. we take classroom behavior very seriously. His social studies teacher said she found it hard to believe he was related to xsteen. i didn't tell him that, because that is never fair to make those comparisons.

[TheGrimReaper]

And the beatings should continue until morale improves!

[VRWCmember]

Will there be a class today?

[Argh]

Here's something not so Hillaryous: Mark Steyn seems to think Hillary is the only choice the Dems have for President in 2004 (see his last sentence). YUCK!!

[Bella_Bru]

Guys, my intrernet is messed up BIG TIME. Maybe it is the downpour, I don't know. It has taken me this long just to log on. If you want a new, thread, start one, but I think it's ok to stay on this one too.

[TheGrimReaper]

Hillary's problem isn't WHO she is, but WHAT she is.
She can't hide the fact that she is Marxist to her core*.
Her issues? Free medical care for the world. Free Rx medicine for the world. Free abortions for the world. Nine really ugly commie women on the Supreme Court (Which won't matter, anyway, because she would want the UN to run the planet).

All "for the children", of course.

[And a hideous, beastly b!tch, too!]