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Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02
The Verbivores | 11/14/02 | Mistress Bella

Posted on 11/14/2002 7:44:58 AM PST by 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....


raffish \RAF-ish\, adjective:

1. Characterized by or suggestive of flashy vulgarity, crudeness, or rowdiness; tawdry.
2. Marked by a carefree unconventionality or disreputableness; rakish.

Etymology: Raffish derives from the noun raff (chiefly used in the compound or duplicate, riffraff), meaning "people of a low reputation."

Good Morning, riffraff!


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To: Bella_Bru; Slip18
RiffRaff I was taking a baff


and all the WFTDers yelled "It's about ******* time!"

81 posted on 11/14/2002 9:14:52 AM PST by Argh
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To: Bella_Bru
I was here in plenty of time for a change, and there was NO ONE to talk with! Then, I go to work, and everyone shows up -- these are the kind of things that can give a guy a complex.
82 posted on 11/14/2002 9:16:49 AM PST by gas_dr
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To: Argh
Let's do the Time Warp again.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)

LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

83 posted on 11/14/2002 9:19:48 AM PST by LonePalm
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To: Bella_Bru; hobbes1
Thank God for Arts & Letters Daily or I would never have found out about these problems at the raffish Iraq Philharmonic!
84 posted on 11/14/2002 9:20:56 AM PST by Argh
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To: hobbes1
Uh-OH. time to take the handle off the Broad Street Pump.
85 posted on 11/14/2002 9:21:31 AM PST by CholeraJoe
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To: anniegetyourgun; CholeraJoe; LonePalm; lds23; hobbes1; Argh
How do you do what you do where you do when you do it if there's a snapping turdl in the commode?

I'm flush outa ideas......

Straining for a solution.....

86 posted on 11/14/2002 9:23:25 AM PST by Robert A Cook PE
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To: LonePalm
Sorry, Lone, I can't do that because I'm stuck back here in 1962 and somebody keeps playing The Locomotion over and over and over...

By the way, did you see the reference to Broken Glass Republicans on Lucianne the other day just after the election?

87 posted on 11/14/2002 9:25:11 AM PST by Argh
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To: white rose
Top of the morning to you!


[Raffish reprehensible reprobate]

88 posted on 11/14/2002 9:28:06 AM PST by TheGrimReaper
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To: gas_dr
good to see you, gas!
89 posted on 11/14/2002 9:34:59 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: gas_dr
Hi, Doc!
90 posted on 11/14/2002 9:41:31 AM PST by Argh
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To: Argh
No I didn't. The link was to Lucianne.com and not directly to the article. It was gone by the time I got back from vacation.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)

LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

91 posted on 11/14/2002 9:54:41 AM PST by LonePalm
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To: CholeraJoe; hobbes1; dubyaismypresident; RikaStrom; maxwell; VRWCmember; Robert A. Cook, PE
Any students considering attending CPAC this year should be aware of THIS!!!!! holey moley! and i was excited about SEANNY last year? i will need to be restrained from DICK!
92 posted on 11/14/2002 10:01:32 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy
I guess raffishness would be a good word for it, xs. Tucson is about as liberal of a city as San Francisco.
93 posted on 11/14/2002 10:05:14 AM PST by Slip18
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To: Slip18; Bella_Bru
i had homework at 39 and 25 that miss bella overlooked, do you think i am falling down on the job as pet, slippy.....? : (
94 posted on 11/14/2002 10:10:29 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: LonePalm
The reference was in Lucianne's description of the article, I don't remember it being in the article itself. Something along the lines of "The Broken Glass Republicans have done their jobs well" or something like that. I guess I should have copied it onto our thread for you, but I didn't realize you were gone. Oh, well.
95 posted on 11/14/2002 10:14:24 AM PST by Argh
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To: xsmommy
i will need to be restrained from DICK!

You've got to be kidding... Nice choice of words there.

96 posted on 11/14/2002 10:15:31 AM PST by Argh
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To: Argh
what do you mean, arghy? i love VP cheney!
97 posted on 11/14/2002 10:16:33 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy; hobbes1; dubyaismypresident; CholeraJoe; Robert A. Cook, PE; gas_dr
I'm surprised hobbes, W, CJ, Robt. et all aren't razzing you about this. Too obvious, I guess.
98 posted on 11/14/2002 10:19:26 AM PST by Argh
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To: Argh
they are too mature and serious to have such a low thought that was clearly not intended, arghy..... OK, i am choking on that sentence....!
99 posted on 11/14/2002 10:23:27 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: Argh
actually, everybody must have gone to lunch together and left me here punching holes all by my lonesome.
100 posted on 11/14/2002 10:24:07 AM PST by xsmommy
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