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.]

[hobbes1]

stick the one a day class of wine theory

One...?

One is too many.....

And a hundred is not enough.

[RikaStrom]

On fire? Why?

[RikaStrom]

Uhmm.. riiiiiight.

[camle]

last I heard was that a generator in the complex was on fire.

[hobbes1]

Top Ten Jerry Springer Campaign Promises

10. "Fifty-dollar tax rebate if you have sex with your wife's sister"

9. "All staff dinners will be at D.C.-area Hooters"

8. "Sausages will attack baseball players with bats!"

7. "Repeal restrictive laws against first-cousin marriages"

6. "Amend constitution to include words 'hoochie mama'"

5. "In the summer months, all press conferences are topless"

4. "I'll tell the truth about which legislators have too much junk in
the trunk"

3. "Solar powered prostitutes"

2. "C-Span will feature more young people calling each other
'bitch'"

1. "Enough cheap sex to make the Clinton years look like a
church social

[secret garden]

In the meantime, C-Span is running Maxine Waters right now. Anyone want to call in and give their opinion?

[hobbes1]

Egads...what is she blathering about?

[secret garden]

It was a rerun from this morning and I confess I could not watch her long enough to figure out her point. She was angry, as usual. They're talking about Blair now. His speech to Congress will be carried live at 4 pm EST.

[hobbes1]

I know. I hate that they sked everything for 4PM.

Why can't they do that at 5 or 6, when people are home and able to tune CSPAN...

[secret garden]

Hey tiger, in another 25 years, this could be you! ;)

[honeygrl]

"i guess so, but in order to get ME into an airplane, you'd need a large amount of liquid encouragement. "

Pre-911 I rode in an airplane exactly 10 times (just in the process of two round trips to Roatan, Honduras) and I'm not sure not I could talk myself into getting in a plane again. Between the scary trip on the itty bitty plane from mainland to the island of Roatan and the 911 stuff I just lost my nerve. But, I still hope one day to get back to Roatan so I may have to get over that fear if I ever want to get there again. My sister wants me to fly from Atlanta to Texas to visit her but I don't think I'll ever ben able to get myself on that plane. The only way I stayed sane on my first trip to Roatan on the large plane from Atlanta to Miami was because I had a pilot as a passenger next to me who talked me through the whole flight (even though he was a total stranger.) He was so sweet and I felt bad after the flight because he asked for my number after the flight was over but I was only 16 and I thought that would be a bad idea since he was atleast 30.

[Conspiracy Guy]

A good pilot can keep a nervous passenger calm. Small planes over open water can be harrowing for even the experienced flyer. I hated cattle car airliners before 911. Not a fear just didn't like the impersonal nature of airline flight. Small planes flown properly can be a very rewarding experience.

[Texan5]

This morning, I saw a clip of Lurch, AKA known as Bob Kerry on Fox News blithering about "deception" regarding the British and American intellegence reports regarding Saddam's attempts to produce WMD's. When I saw today's word, I thought it was just perfect. Sorry I took so long to get back to y'all, but I have been with customers all afternoon.

[Texan5]

Happy shopping!

Yeah, I got into that same thing, because the nearest commissary is over 35 miles away, and the nearest real supermarket is over 18. Last week, I finally realized how much it was costing me to buy food every couple of days, and you're right-it is a budget killer. Plus, as with you, I had this great big nearly empty freezer plugged in the utility room. So I gritted my teeth, drove on post to the commissary, showed my ID card at least 3 times, and spent nearly two hours stocking up on everything, like I used to do when we lived in town, and another 10 minutes trying to figure out how to cram it all into the hatch of my two seater car that I drove to save on gas (my other car is a 4x4 truck). I am now paying only to run a full freezer, and the daily cost of groceries is cut just about in half.

[honeygrl]

Well, it was about a 30 seater dirty passenger plane with 3 stairs from the ground into the plane. The pilot was seperated from the passengers with a dirty multi colored curtain. There was one stewardess. She spoke broken english, the pilot spoke no english. That went from mainland to the island and landed on a runway that was so short that when the plane finally screeched to a stop you were inches from the dirty and a few yards from the water. It was a bit frightening.

[honeygrl]

Aren't you in Canada? Check out this.

[secret garden]

Friday! Yay! Anyone here?

[Conspiracy Guy]

Sound like a piece of crap commuter. Commuter planes are 3rd rate in US. Go outside US and their downright dangerous.

[xsmommy]

me! i'm here!

[xsmommy]

I coulda sworn they already had a White Trailer Trash cookbook out. look who thinks he needs to spread his recipes...