Word For The Day, Thursday, July 17, 2003

The Verbivores | 7/17/03 | The Teacher

[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. Practice makes perfect.....post on....

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prosaic /Pro*sa"ic/; adjective
prosaical adjective
prosaically; adverb
prosaicness; noun

1a. Consisting or characteristic of prose.
1b. Matter-of-fact; straightforward.
2. Lacking in imagination and spirit; dull.
3. Of or pertaining to prose; resembling prose; in the form of prose; unpoetical; writing or using prose; as, a prosaic composition.
4. Dull; uninteresting; commonplace; unimaginative

Etymology: [Late Latin pr saicus, from Latin pr sa, prose. See prose.]

[Gabz]

I wasn't able to get to Dover the day of his hearing, but got a blow-by-blow detailed description of what occurred later that eveing.

When the enforcement agent stated, under oath, he couldn't tell if what was being smoked was actually a tobacco cigarette, Frank immediately asked for a dismissal - which was denied.

The entire enforcement and fining with this ban is a complete and total FARCE - there is absolutely no due process. The department doesn't have to PROVE anything, the establishment owner is the one that has to do the proving. A perfect example of guilty until proven innocent.

[Conspiracy Guy]

BSA's were hard to get parts for when they were new. Never owned one but rode a few. Good bikes. Ever ride a Norton?

[Conspiracy Guy]

I built one like this in 96 mine was red and white.
Next I plan to build one of these.
Flying made me understand that all the fast things I ever rode, drove, or floated were but substitutes for the 3 dimensional freedom of flying.

[secret garden]

Who do they think they are? The IRS?

[camle]

nope but I knwo one that has a history...

seems the guy who taught me how to ride sold me his BSA (my second) lightening. He had been lusting after this Norton 750 commando of a pal's for several years. the poor chap had to sell it to him to get out of jail. Seems the Norton's tailpipes rake upward at a slight angle, which figures into our tale.

The two of them were hoisting a wee cup or two in a RI club one fine summer eve when they got into a bit of a scuffle with other patrons. They exited the place to ride off into the sunrise, but.... well when a guy has a few wee cups of nasty RI beer, a natural reaction occurs. And this guy sought releif onthe rear tire of his Norton. Apparently much of the byproduct of this release wound up in the tailpipe, unbeknownst to the two rather innoculated gentlemen.

At this point RI's finest make their entreance. They ask the guys, who are mounting their metallic steeds to resume their cruise. The guys cannot honestly recall anything untoward hapenning inthe club, and are about to leave when the Norton fires up. Mind you the cop was shall we say "downwind"?

Wiping his eyes from the byproduct of that earlier evacuation that had pooled inside of those downward sloping pipes and had exited rapidly in a generally upwarsd direction with help from the newly ignited 750 Norton engine onto the hapless gendarme...

his next words sealed their doom "I think I found the guys I'm looking for"...

So Randy had to seell his Norton, and Bo was only too happy to get it. I bought Bo's BSA and that was almost it, except for when the city cops decided to pick on Bo and his new bike. they pulled him over and gafve him a ticket for a broken taillight. Bo got hot and raced off - into a phone pole. the cops had to hurry up and clean the taillight fragments off the road.

Bo and the Norton were totalled, and I eventually sold the BSA.

[camle]

yeesh! how much do you have to drink in order to go up in one of those...?

[secret garden]

A prosaic(1b) follow-up from the ibuprofen discussion yesterday.

[Slip18]

No. 200? Hehehehehehe!

Miss Rika, tomorrow we get the effects of your hurricane. Thank goodness. It's been over 110 here for the past three weeks. Yesterday and the day before it was over 115. 'Nuf to kill ya. But tomorrow we'll drop over 10 degrees.

I told everyone when I was bragging about our winter weather that I would pay for it in the summer, and, dang, this year we've broken record after record.

[Texan5]

The dumbass mayor of San Antonio was trying to push a smoking ban in the downtown tourist area awhile back, but suddenly the idea wasn't so important to him. One of the news stations had a straw poll that showed 70% of the business owners and patrons against it. Most people there are more concerned over the ever-increasing exodus of businesses (and customers) from downtown to the suburbs to go throwing gas on the fire (pun intended) by banning smoking. Their mayor lives in lala land anyway-I've known him for a number of years and he has always seemed totally unrealistic to me. Another damn good reason why we moved from there.

[secret garden]

Arnold rides the big one! And no, it's not another disgusting chronicle of events from the kennedy compound.

[VRWCmember]

It just means the cancer you get won't be in the prostate!

(But according to that article, I'll probably live forever)

[Gabz]

Who do they think they are? The IRS?

To be honest, having seen the way both agencies work - I would prefer to deal with the IRS.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Safer than anything you can buy built by union card toting idiots.

[camle]

nice. as i said, dern near bought me an indian. i wanted the larger bike tho, and Harley's 100th was nigh...

[Conspiracy Guy]

Anyone who would pee on a bike deserves to be arrested.

[hobbes1]

What if it was a Yamaha...?

[camle]

yeah, well. if my car breaks down, it can coast to the side of the road, if my bike breaks donw, I have to put it in a side stand. if the motor vessel breaks down, I need to anchor it to keep it steady. is the lear breaks down, it falls like a meteor. not something I wish to contemplate.

[camle]

well, he was aiming for the rear tire...

[Conspiracy Guy]

Tire is attached to bike therefore requires some respect.

[VRWCmember]

Apparently the puppies are for when women pleasure themselves and the kittens are for when men pleasure themselves.