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Word For The Day, Thursday, September 4, 2003
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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.
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posted on
09/04/2003 12:40:48 PM PDT
by
hobbes1
( Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to" ;)
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.)
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
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?)
To: dubyaismypresident
despite my best offer.... ; )
285
posted on
09/04/2003 12:45:39 PM PDT
by
xsmommy
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?)
To: secret garden
perfect!
287
posted on
09/04/2003 12:47:03 PM PDT
by
xsmommy
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
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?)
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
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?)
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!)
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
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......
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posted on
09/04/2003 12:56:02 PM PDT
by
xsmommy
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)
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.)
To: dubyaismypresident
chicken!
297
posted on
09/04/2003 12:56:39 PM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: dubyaismypresident
298
posted on
09/04/2003 12:58:17 PM PDT
by
xsmommy
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)
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.
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