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Word For The Day, Thursday, September 4, 2003
The Verbivores | 9/4/03 | Teacher

Posted on 09/04/2003 5:11:55 AM PDT by 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....


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..]


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To: secret garden
Vinnys career Opening Day QB Rating is over 96.
Curtis Martin is Better than Anyone the Skins wil have lugging the ball.

The Jets Field a Better D.



Jets by 7.
281 posted on 09/04/2003 12:40:48 PM PDT by hobbes1 ( Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
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To: honeygrl
No comment. :-p

Now I'm offended

I've never taken money in my life...

282 posted on 09/04/2003 12:42:54 PM PDT by NeoCaveman (Life is like a jar of jalapenos, what you do today can burn your @$$ tomorrow.)
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To: xsmommy
Whuff! If you had gone to the office you wouldn't have gotten home till at least dark thirty. To be greeted by a hungry family. I've got to go pick up my car as soon as hubby gets home from work, right in the rush hour, but at least the shop isn't in the city-the traffic will just be other commuters going home from work.
283 posted on 09/04/2003 12:43:35 PM PDT by Texan5
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To: xsmommy
My favorite post on this thread is where someone defines the ACLU as Anti Christ Leads Us.
284 posted on 09/04/2003 12:44:08 PM PDT by secret garden (are you ready for some football?)
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To: dubyaismypresident
despite my best offer.... ; )
285 posted on 09/04/2003 12:45:39 PM PDT by xsmommy
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To: hobbes1
I just hope Vinny's on.
286 posted on 09/04/2003 12:45:43 PM PDT by secret garden (are you ready for some football?)
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To: secret garden
perfect!
287 posted on 09/04/2003 12:47:03 PM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Texan5
well the big screen tv is working in time for the game, but xshub is not a redskin fan, so it doesn't really matter.
288 posted on 09/04/2003 12:47:39 PM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy
But is he a Britney fan?
289 posted on 09/04/2003 12:48:05 PM PDT by secret garden (are you ready for some football?)
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To: secret garden
not hardly. though he did see her in concert a few years back....
290 posted on 09/04/2003 12:50:34 PM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy
Please tell me he was chaperoning for xsteen?
291 posted on 09/04/2003 12:51:56 PM PDT by secret garden (are you ready for some football?)
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To: Eala; xsmommy; maxwell
A good point.

Keep it to 2-D physics until the earth rotates.

(Xsex - Do you agree?)
292 posted on 09/04/2003 12:54:32 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only support FR by donating monthly, but ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: secret garden
well yeah. it was at DAR Hall downtown at night, and i wasn't comfortable driving and parking at night, so he drew the black bean. i took her to the Spice Girls and N'Sync. Thank goodness we have grown out of that phase. now xsboy's taste runs more to groups like Good Charlotte and other rock bands, where i am worried that the F bomb would be flying and bongs being passed around!
293 posted on 09/04/2003 12:54:59 PM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE
i am not even going to give you the slightest HINT, else how would you possibly LEARN ANYTHING, robt? tsk, tsk......
294 posted on 09/04/2003 12:56:02 PM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE
She'd probably go for the linear transformation.
295 posted on 09/04/2003 12:56:10 PM PDT by Eala (There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue. --Burke)
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To: xsmommy
despite my best offer.... ; )

If it hadn't been such a public scene, at CPAC and all...

296 posted on 09/04/2003 12:56:12 PM PDT by NeoCaveman (Life is like a jar of jalapenos, what you do today can burn your @$$ tomorrow.)
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To: dubyaismypresident
chicken!
297 posted on 09/04/2003 12:56:39 PM PDT by xsmommy
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To: dubyaismypresident

298 posted on 09/04/2003 12:58:17 PM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy
??
299 posted on 09/04/2003 1:00:30 PM PDT by Eala (There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue. --Burke)
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To: xsmommy; RikaStrom; Texan5; secret garden; VRWCmember
Miguel Estrada withdraws his name from judicial nomination.
Fatuous republicans b!tch and moan.
Rat bastard dims win again.

IMO, war should be declared immediately.

300 posted on 09/04/2003 1:02:57 PM PDT by TheGrimReaper (o)(o)
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