Word For The Day, Thursday, September 4, 2003

The Verbivores | 9/4/03 | 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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fatuous \FACH-oo-us\, adjective:
fatuousness; noun
fatuously; adverb

1. Feeble in mind; weak; silly; stupid; foolish.
2. Without reality; illusory
3. Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish
4. Delusive; unreal.

"Publishers persist in the fatuous belief that a little hocus-pocus in the front flap blurb will so dazzle readers that they'll be too dazed to notice the quality of what's on the pages inside." Irish Times, October 7, 1997

Etymology: [Latin fatuus, foolish, idiotic, silly..]

[Gabz]

details, details - don't confuse us with facts, our minds are made up.

[xsmommy]

see, it isn't just THIS class, there is another class that feels similarly. they have their own HD....

[camle]

i envy you. if not for my extra-special coquette i'd have gone nuts by now.

[honeygrl]

The little girl got her shots yesterday and now has a low grade fever. :( She's being impossible about it too. She also has green goo coming out of her nose so I'm guessing she got the cold the toddler has. He never got a fever with his so I can only assume the fever is from the shots. She's not one of those babies that gets fevers real easily at all.

[NeoCaveman]

WhenBushComes2Shove... ROR

[Texan5]

This is probably a regional thing, but is owning an El Camino a weird thing in other places? Here it is a "cult car", when it is tweaked as a muscle car, and has a lift kit and cool paint job, especially among those of us of Mexican ancestry. Ours is totally un-stock, has a custom paint job and hot stock Mustangs are it's favorite lunch. What do people do with them in your state? Are they like, as Gallagher said in one of his routines "Rusting Impalas driven by undocumented third world refugees?

[NeoCaveman]

What are your preseason picks for each division?

Too much parity in the AFC but i'll give it a stab anyways.

Miami, Cleveland (obvious bias), Tennessee, Oakland
Philly, GreenBay, Tampa, and Seattle

[Robert A Cook PE]

Homework:

One must always remember the most famous fatuass of all: Hillary! ........

[xsmommy]

you don't see many of them around these parts, and it would no doubt be an illegal alien or a redneck that had one. vans,SUVs, honda accords, durangos, are the most common vehicles here.

[Robert A Cook PE]

"You have to start loosening the ties, sometime ..

RAC grins while anticipating the apron to fall.....

[Texan5]

If Flurry's truck is a "lezbianne yellow Ford Ranger", then I guess the El Camino shall become referred to in posts as a "suburban purple, jacked-up El Camino with baby shoes hanging from the rear view mirror" (yes, it does-I put them there as a little joke on my ancestry).

[NeoCaveman]

This is probably a regional thing, but is owning an El Camino a weird thing in other places?

Didn't Bill Clinton own one of those in his youth, with astroturf in the back...

[honeygrl]

Here they are usually low riders with booming music you can hear from a half mile away. When it's not a booming lowrider, it's usually a bit broken down and filled with 20 illegals carpooling to work. (we have a chicken slaughter house here that hires mostly illegals because the locals are "too good" to work in a slaughter house apparently.. or maybe just too expensive)

[Texan5]

Here illegal aliens drive beat up old (mostly Chevy) trucks or rusty oldsmobiles, and rednecks drive old Suburbans and short bed Chevy trucks.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Plenty of El Caminos and Rancheros here. I call them bad cars and lousy trucks. Tricked out even a Yugo could be cool. I haven't had a muscle car since my 67 GTO, which I owned in 73. I like to drive too much to own a high octane gas hog. I does like customs but only in your driveway or garage.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Does it have dingo balls around the back window and little lights in the fenderwells?

[Texan5]

Poor tyke-I hope she gets to feeling better soon. Does it help if you put a cool towel on her face and neck? Mine always liked that.

[Texan5]

I seem to remember that he owned one, but I can't recall if he said it had astroturf or not. What a waste of a nice vehicle.

[Texan5]

My guess is too expensive. Is there a Chickenworkers' Local Union there to drive up the wages?

[honeygrl]

"suburban purple, jacked-up El Camino with baby shoes hanging from the rear view mirror" (yes, it does-I put them there as a little joke on my ancestry).

You can't get away that easy! How about "undocumented immigrant caravan"? (you know, to be PC and all LOL) Or maybe "the hubby's pimp car"? (what's the PC word for "pimp"?)