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]

cinderella woke me up doing that the other nigh - the little brat wa chewing away on the book I was currently reading, when she saw I was awake she started wagging her tail.

[RikaStrom]

Yeah, Thena wagged her tail too when I walked in. I have a small fortune in books in my house, I am hoping this was a one-off, or little miss Thena and I are going to have to have a discussion.

[NeoCaveman]

You get the Jesse Jackass pc diversity award-lunch with hillary clinton at McDonalds.

I'll bring my devil mask.

[NeoCaveman]

Procurer of pavement princesses

Lord of the lot lizards.

[Hegewisch Dupa]

Nice try. In reality my grade school class voted me Class Clown.

Unfortunately that appears to be where my life peaked...

[secret garden]

I am so glad Jax had the presence of mind to call for help when she was trying to save the puppy. Hopefully she didn't hold the wire long enough to get her hair curled up tight. For the pup, I have a story that's even worse. A friend with a Rotty pup dozed off on the couch and woke to the sound of chewing and found she had chewed off a big hank of her hair!! Talk about a bad dog!

[honeygrl]

Maybe pimps could be called Temp Service Workers Administrators.

[NeoCaveman]

(are you ready for some football?)

YES!

[honeygrl]

The doxie I had is now 4-5yrs old and still a bad chewer. She never outgrew it. I hope yours does. If not, don't feel guilty about finding someone with outdoor space that could make a nice home for her! Are there any obedience schools around? Maybe you could take her to those and let your daughter come to learn as well how to help train if they'll allow that and if you can afford it. Some places actually have reasonable prices if they do it in groups with the owners participation.

[secret garden]

Here's one of the threads I was pinged to today. I don't know how I wound up on that list.

[secret garden]

Let's hope the wardrobe people don't switch the outfits for Britney and the Queen of Soul.

[Eala]

Robert, I think you're making it too difficult.

I'm going to add a few assumptions, such as no air, pefectly round igloo, and I am assuming the point you're seeking is referenced to the igloo-earth contact point in line with the direction in which he started.

So... it gets easier if you change your frame of reference. The first step is to calculate how long it takes him to reach the ground moving in a single plane; that's the hard part (but computationally easier than figuring the 3-D trajectory). But once you have that, all you need to do is to figure out how far the Earth has rotated in that time, and that's your contact point.

[honeygrl]

"Maybe they were white trash. Sam Walton looked like a hardware store hick right til the end. "

Well yeah they were. They were also a$$holes. They sent me a letter requiring that I get rid of my two dogs (one of which was only visiting for a few weeks because I rescued her from a shelter.) She then allowed my next door neighbor to get a puppy soon after. I hid my chihuahua for many months from her but ended up going ahead and finding a home for him when I got pregnant with the toddler because he wasn't a dog that would be good with a baby. He was sweet and submissive but thought fingers were chew toys and had sharp teeth. I was never able to break him of it. he lives with an old man now though who had a really old chihuahua that had run out the door as he was leaving and ran into the road and got run over. He was heartbroken over it and I think getting bandit helped heal his heart a bit.

[secret garden]

Hmmm, two of you have chosen Tennessee 3rd in your predictions. They sure looked good this preseason, for a change. And I like one of the new guys we picked up this week after cuts. McSomething...

[Laura Earl]

Just coming up for air. Please note that I've worked 2 days in a row.

[secret garden]

Scott McGarrahan, safety, played for NM.

[NeoCaveman]

That would be awful, especailly since Aretha makes Mo Vaughn look like Calista Flockhart.

[NeoCaveman]

Hmmm, two of you have chosen Tennessee 3rd in your predictions.

No I didn't I picked the winner of each division. No one cares who comes in third.

[VRWCmember]

They aren't picked 3rd. They are picked to win one of the four divisions in their conference. So, we both picked them to finish FIRST in their division.

[NeoCaveman]

Maybe pimps could be called Temp Service Workers Administrators.

I'm working as a temp. You aren't calling me a whore, are ya?