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..]

[xsmommy]

and it should be of the thermonuclear variety and i mean THERMO NUKE U LAR.... when i say that!

[Eala]

IMO, war should be declared immediately.

Agreed.

[honeygrl]

hah! don't be offended.. whore is one of my favorite terms and I like to reserve it for the people I like most! :-p I call my best friend one quite frequently and have since we were 15. (she knows i say it with love)

[TheGrimReaper]

Then we're all agreed. War it is.
May the fleas of a thousand camels infest Chuck Schumer's underpants.
May Patty "Leaky" Leahy be locked in the "House of Mirrors" for the rest of his miserable life.

[TheGrimReaper]

I once called a girl a "two-bit whore".
Then she smacked me with a roll of quarters.

[xsmommy]

where'd she pull those out of ? ; )

[honeygrl]

hah! I would never hit you for that.. i'm better at psychological revenge than physical.

[TheGrimReaper]

Her coin slot, I assume.

[Texan5]

I am all for war after the trashing Estrada got, Grimmy-but how do we fight? Where are our weapons?

[VRWCmember]

i took her to the Spice Girls

I'd say YOU drew the black bean then.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

"Girls don't like boys, girls like cars and money..."

[honeygrl]

I hate that song. :) But it reminds me of those women haters on the marraige threads.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Its a great tune. My girls sing it constantly - and I'm the one who discovered it first on MTV. Their other fave is "Sparkiling Damonds" from Moulin Rouge - they are a tad spoiled.

[xsmommy]

xsteen loves that song.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

They sit and dream of what they can milk out of poor saps later in life. The littler ones cackle maniacally over it.

I fear for my future son in laws.

[xsmommy]

xsteen said she thinks it is the opposite to what the song says, in real life. though not her so much. she sees her friends at the allgirls HS catch a glimpse of males walking around loose saying, longingly, BOYS..... and she rolls her eyes. she is my girl!

[xsmommy]

xsteen said she thinks it is the opposite to what the song says, in real life. though not her so much. she sees her friends at the allgirls HS catch a glimpse of males walking around loose saying, longingly, BOYS..... and she rolls her eyes. she is my girl!

[xsmommy]

pardon my excess verbiage!

[Gabz]

little miss Thena and I are going to have to have a discussion.

OUCH!!!

Sorry. Had to bug out - storm was coming in and I had to get to the store and back before it hit. Barely made it!!!

[Gabz]

Fortunately she apparently only held the wire long enough to know she touched something she shouldn't have touched!!! But it scared the bejeezes out of her, that's for sure.

I've seen dogs chew at themselves so badly that they go further than bald spots and actually draw blood. My chow had fleas (only once in 11 years but it was enough) and chewed herself raw, I had clumps of hair everywhere. Turned out she was alergic to the bites. They also tend to do it if their skin is dry because it becomes itchy and that's the only way they know how to scratch - a raw egg or some oil in their food seems to clear up the problem very quickly.