Word For The Day, Tuesday, 2/25/03

2/25/03

[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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chimerical\ky-MER-ih-kuhl; -MIR-; kih-\, adjective:

1. Merely imaginary; produced by or as if by a wildly fanciful imagination; fantastic; improbable or unrealistic.
2. Given to or indulging in unrealistic fantasies or fantastic schemes.

Her name is Dulcinea; her country El Toboso, a village in La Mancha; her degree at least that of Princess, for she is my Queen and mistress; her beauty superhuman, for in her are realized all the impossible and chimerical attributes of beauty which poets give to their ladies. --Miguel De Cervantes, Don Quixote.

Etymology: Chimerical is ultimately derived from Greek khimaira, "she-goat" or "chimera," which in Greek mythology was a monster having the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon.

Good Morning Class. Welcome to School!

[Gabz]

Ugh. temperatures like that make me think of frozen pipes.

HUSH - enough stuff has gone wrong for me in the past week - I don't need the weather gods to get any other ideas of havoc to wreak upon me........

[Gabz]

You're right about not being answerable to the Bishop - but still and all...........

The teachings of the Church are the teachings of the Church - if you don't agree with them you don't belong in a position teaching students who's parents sent them at least partly for those teachings.

[doubled]

The demorcrats hope chimerically
To call Bush on credibility.
They better remember
The untold number
Of times they have ignored reality.

[doubled]

Ugh. temperatures like that make me think of frozen pipes.

Yeah, we have had one mobile home, er, excuse me, modular housing unit, in the adjacent town go up due to thawing pipes with a space heater.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Saddam's chimerical musings are partially caused by his vast wealth, leading to a sense of invincibility. Living in a clime rich with oil, he often attempts to describe his wealth in broken English, as in "I camel rich,"a translation of an Arabic expression describing an accumulation of valuable assets, or I calm rich, i.e., I have so much wealth that there is never a need to be nervous. Showing off his palaces, he brags, "I'm real chic" and while that is true for now, in a few weeks, when he is hunkered down in a cave, he might be heard to murmur "I march lice" rather than his vaunted Republican Guard, which will be turned to cream chili by the first US strikes. He may try to escape to Iran and claim to be a religious Mullah, but the Iranians will scoff and exclaim, "A cleric,him?" Even Vincente Fox, who will finally allow Mexico to approve of the attacks, will be heard to say "Mira, cliche is all this guy is. Cliche of a real bad dictator, and we don't need no stinkin' badges to get rid of him."

[SCalGal]

Here in the middle of the great void it was -25 night before last and -7 this AM. CJ is putting up with the same front I am just about 12 hours ahead of me.

It's 48 degrees here.... and very wet.

[Gabz]

PHHHHTTTTTTTTTTTT

[SCalGal]

*smile*

[P.O.E.]

They flicked their eyes at my forehead.

[white rose]

As it sometimes seems like the debate over Iraq is becoming more chimerical by the day, it's something of a relief to stumble across quotes such as this:

"You are not going to decide whether there is war in Iraq or not," the diplomat said U.S. officials told him. "That decision is ours, and we have already made it. It is already final. The only question now is whether the council will go along with it or not."

Read all about it, as they say.

Hi there, kids. I would've stumbled into class earlier, but I was trapped elsewhere on the Web. I somehow--don't ask me how or why--got dragged into an online debate over whether or not Prince Harry is James Hewitt's son. This may be an excellent warning sign that I am spending way too much time at this computer.

[Gabz]

LOL!!!

Yes, I'm smiling!!!!

[Eala]

HUSH - enough stuff has gone wrong...

That was a jest. I've played pipes in subfreezing weather -- and don't recommend it. (Though the pay was good.)

[Gabz]

Sometimes it pays to play!!!!

[NeoCaveman]

One of my favorites. Hard to believe it was controversal when it came out....probably due to that "two at a time" line.

[NeoCaveman]

and then pining for brittney. i don't know WHICH is more embarassing for him.

I wouldn't necessarily call pining for Brittney embarrassing BUT the way he did it so publicly, on his website, etc. He sounded really whipped. It was pathetic.

[Robert A Cook PE]

A bald move (er, bold action) on their part.

[xsmommy]

well they played a song he has recently done, obviously about the Brittney situation, i think it is called Drop Dead or something like that. Further evidence of being whipped.

[NeoCaveman]

Those chimerical
Rotten Senate Democrats
Go hysterical

Orrin Hatch slices and dices em. With a little help from the Washington Post (of all places)

[NeoCaveman]

so if you love the little sampler of "just drop dead", thank you and kiss my (edit). if you hate it, thank you and kiss my (edit). it's a lose lose situation. unfortunately i had to go through a very painful exsperience to write that song. and believe me, the song is a very sugar coated version of what i held myself back from saying.
you don't hardly know me?

From limpbizkit.com, Fred has clearly come undone, not that he was wrapped too tight to begin with....

What a wuss!

[xsmommy]

what is it about BRITTNEY that engenders these guys to lose it and have to write songs about her? i suppose we will have to ask Hobbes that question, as she was/has always been his dream girl...